Hello! I’m beginning this new project since I think I’ll be needing something to work on and be busy with now that I’m officially graduating from UP. I got this idea right after the list was released last Monday. Relief, happiness and gratitude - a strange but wonderful wave of emotions passed through me, a feeling I can’t really quite express and give justice with words.
Then my mind started racing - the things I wanted to do, the books I wanted to read, the places I wanted to go to.. all the things I wanted to do but never did. It took me quite a while to list all those things down and to actually conceptualize the whole project.
Don’t get me wrong though, I am beyond thankful for the education that UPCP gave me. It has molded me into the person I am now -- not perfect and definitely not someone who’s going to graduate with flying colors, but someone who is stronger and equipped to face the world and give myself and my service to the country, just as how we were trained to be. But somehow, in the process, I feel like I lost some parts of myself -- beloved parts and things that I had to sacrifice in order to commit to the causes and the values that the University champions: honor and excellence. And to be able to give myself again fully, I could at least, try to have those things back.
While others say “finally”.. let me proclaim “for a while, I’m free.”
Thank you, UP.
Let this be a new chapter in my story.
PS to those asking, after this brief period of 100 days, my review for board exam begins, hence, the title. Also, I am really having quite a hard time trying to put words together and make sense out of everything. I haven’t written for quite a long time, and it makes me nervous and excited at the same time.