By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
After a long and hard journey, the looking back at the end is always the sweetest moment. You look back at all your regrets, your accomplishments, or even your mistakes you wish you could take back. You may even wonder what you should have done better at times. But that route only leads to needless paranoia of a past time that won’t ever come back. There is only the acceptance of the present shaped by your past actions.
After another semester, the city can rest easy knowing that the traffic both on the streets and sidewalk may breathe again now that a lot of students will go back to their home provinces or simply hibernate in their own homes for weeks on end. The cycle, no matter how cruel it may seem, must rotate at some point and that means giving leisure time for the students after all the trials and tribulations.
This moment should be taken seriously for college breaks are never that long but here I am with a sick body that can’t even enjoy the sweetest days of vacation as it inevitably slips away. This is a frustrating state to be in. When you are too weak to enjoy simply breathing in the early morning where you won’t have to go to class is a harrowing experience.
But life has its funny ways. Sometimes it gives you a gift, or takes something important from you, and I suspect, like what its doing to me now, sits you down when you yourself fail to realize your body is at its limits. Like other students now, I also had plans for this vacation. I thought of places to go but perhaps this is just what my body needed, a calm, peaceful and boring days.
The natural process is something hard to overcome. Your body gets tired and pushed to its limits you get sick. Life naturally counters my wild plans and sits me down to hibernate too like the many students. The natural process then acts to give us what we need at the very moment.
Since we all have that innate stubbornness, some semblance of control is perhaps needed for balance in our lives. We can think and act as freely as we want but life will ultimately correct what needs correcting.
So this situation is something I should probably make the most out of. When life is at play, you can either stay still and watch it do its work or find something you can actually do at the moment. **
