After thesis, I had always been planning on writing something about "everything AMACC AC" since the day I first set foot on her, 'til the last days I have to walk around her corridors with a hopeful smile and pride that I'm finally graduating, thank heavens!

Much as it was the same with other students, the frightening reality of graduating at a campus you can't even be proud of was spreading in the air like a disease that kills our hopes and interest to go to school. With each passing day, this same atmosphere greets us and instead of chasing the nightmare away, it seemed as if though it was chasing us. But then at the nearing end of our roads, we came to meet someone that slapped us to reality.

It was like we were asked the very question of "to graduate or not to graduate?" If you would be choosing the road to graduating, you'll face a great trial ahead - one that you could not imagine. If you chose not to, the only place you are left to go is rot in college. Now, which would you choose? Of course, we chose to graduate. But the reality of not learning anything from the past years due to our own "kapabayaan" (responsibility) hit us hard and so we need to start all over again from scratch within a continuous running time hitting deadline. It's a risk most of us took and succeeded on. Those that lost faith in their own capabilities are the once who failed. After all, no pain, no gain. There, we learned and proved the power of human mind to work more than its capacity under rough circumstances. And even though you might think you can't make it, you can. You just have to take the risk and try.

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My short contribution before graduating. A featured article in Dataline (school paper). ;)

All of us had gone, will be going, or is going through a life of great change, a life of great acceptance, a life of great pain, a life full of doubts, a life full of confusions - a teen age life. Always, whenever we cross this road, we meet a lot of people and lose a lot too. Some of them, we just came to meet along the road and leave us just like that. But for some, they became a great part of our lives. But we can never say that these people would always be with us. Sometimes we must also learn how to let go.

Sometimes, when we really want something so bad, we always thought that everything's okay, everything's going as we want it to be. But sooner or later, with a blink of an eye, we'll just realize it was gone. And no matter what we do, no matter how hard we try, it will never come back to the way it used to be. And after that we'll decide of letting go.

Letting go of someone isn't that easy. Whenever we let someone go, we always hold back because that person means so much to us. Even if it means hurting ourselves, we still keep our eyes peeled just to keep that person beside us. After we've let go, we always hope that that person would come back. But sometimes, we have to accept the fact that that person would never come back and wont be the same person that we once knew. We just have to give that person up for us to grow and for us to realize that somebody out there needs that someone more that we do.

Even though life is cruel at times, we still need to wipe our tears dry, face the new world without that someone beside and get up every time we fall and know that that person wont always be there to catch us whenever we fall. Through this, we learn and become much stronger than we were before.

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An article for Literature class.