By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
It has been a long time now since 3 o’clock was a time of my dismissal. Nowadays, the time for going home gets mixed up very so often. The schedule for our semesters are hardly uniform that you can have the most convenient of time tables for a couple months, enjoying life, then you’re suddenly running for home in the night because of classes running well over 7:00 pm in your current schedule.
I can still see young children flooding the sidewalks around 3 in the afternoon and it makes one very jealous and yearn to the extreme for a past long gone.
We all have moments we want to go back to, as far back to the past when we were a lot smaller or as recent as yesterday. They may not be reachable anymore, but we can still yearn for all things we don’t have.
It is surprising how fickle we can be, especially the young. One moment we wish desperately for adult life to take us away from classrooms, then as we near adult life we then plead to be brought back to where we came from. We can also be stone-hard stubborn on what we stand for that our parents’ belts had to be used in order for us to budge.
Stubborn and fickle, we each put the best of both worlds into good use. How they can even exist in the same plane is an example of human excellence and our ability to do whatever.
People can be steadfast in their views but just as ready to change the wrongs in their opinions when they see it.
We’re just a few days in the new semester and I’m
sure there are already those who wish it to end. It’s not easy but we first have to get our brains ready, an out of shape mind is only natural to complain, be unsteady.
Thankfully we have the infamous Filipino resilience to keep us steadfast to the ground. Just until both our body and mind are fully ready to take on a semester, we will all have to be a bit stubborn.
Stubborn and fickle, it doesn’t take a genius to be both, determine the moments when one of them needs to stand out over the other.
We can reminisce all day long but we need to be strong if we wish to continue living in the present.
We can believe in what we say with full confidence but there is always someone smarter out there.
Strong, flexible and many more, no one is purely one dimensional. There is after all great care put in making us all. **
