Yesterday, my old bestfriend was the guest speaker during the graduation ceremony of the elementary school where we also graduated from. I say my “old bestfriend” because we used to be the best of friends from our elementary days up to our high school days. But soon as we entered into college, we just grew apart. Communication lessened and even turned to none at all. We had our own separate lives and almost turned into strangers, I think. But there’s no sense of bitterness here. We parted ways since we studied in different places and we built new lives and eventually found new friends. Now that we have turned into hardworking professionals, we almost never see each other except during holidays like Christmas or New Year. But I know that even if we seem to have grown apart, we will always have our own special memories together and on some ocassion where we remember of those good old days, we remember that we had the time of our lives together and those memories will never be forgotten. It’s like a special bond that will never be broken even if decades had already passed.
This morning, we became nostalgic when she started posting on our group chat our old pictures. It was such a hilarious thing to see our “totoy” and “nene” faces. It feels like it was only yesterday when we were still young kids who were playful and oblivious of the real world around us. It feels like it was only yesterday when slam notebooks are the thing. Today, we are already the young adults who are trying to build our own lives, some already building their own families and some on the process of building successful careers.
It’s a wonderful thing to reminisce the past especially when we think of the happy moments. The past contains all the building blocks of our lives. The past is where those dreams and motivations in life were built. The past is where we started thinking of having a beautiful and successful life. It’s a challenging thing to think of the present. The present is where those dreams and motivations meet with actions. The present is where we can do actions to have a better life. The present is where we can achieve those dreams. The present is where we can become better persons. The future is a scary thing. It’s a world full of uncertainties that is yet to unfold. It’s scary to think whether you’ll become the person that you always wanted to be. But despite of all that fears and uncertainties, the future is something that we always have to think about in a positive way. Think of a positive future despite of all the heartbreaks and downfalls that the present brings. Think of a future where all of your dreams come true. Think also of a future where your dreams don’t come true, but your actions result into something way much better than what you have ever dreamed of. And when that time comes, you’ll see how wonderful life is and things do get better as time flies. I think of having a life like that.
