One of my best friends is a Thomasian and every year, she never fails to invite me to join her in celebrating Paskuhan and I declined every single one of them because I was too focused with my academe. To be honest, for the past few years, I tried my very best to avoid UST. Don’t get me wrong, the whole university is beautiful for words but the it gives me anxiety because of something that happened in the past. This year, I decided to give it a go mainly because I’d like to experience how is it like plus I get to be with my highschool friends and meet new people.
Looking back, I was so close to ditching Katrina because Ayesha said she can’t join us but I just can’t let Kat go alone given that we already talked and planned about it for days. To cut the story short, I must say, it was one of the best decisions I made in 2017. I met her friends who were VERY nice and bubbly that I actually envied Katrina for a second. The whole event was too magical and it made me genuinely happy. The bands, the people, the lights and especially the fireworks were all amazing! I regretted not taking a chance in UST although it’s never in my options anyway LOL. Everything was so beautiful that I can’t keep taking photos even though I’m not really the type of person that captures moments but I can’t help it!
Katrina and I ended up spending the rest of the event together. Just a little segue, she is too precious for words which is why in highschool, I seriously wanted us to be exclusive best buds if such thing exist but then she’s really nice and has way too many friends (which is good of course!) so spending time with her, just with her, means a lot to me..now back to my Paskuhan story..we were in the middle of a large crowd and the firework display was about to start, Katrina was still looking for her friends and called them countless times but to no avail, that’s how I ended up watching the firework display with one of the few people in my life that I treasure so much. I believe it is also what made the whole experience undescribably beautiful.
For some reasons, going there made me feel at ease with UST and it made me realize a lot of things. Watching the people and the fireworks made me realize how grateful I should be that I get to witness such things in life. I can’t believe I’m gonna say this but thank you UST. For the heartache and for this.
