Collide

Even the best fall down sometimes....

Valedictory ended yesterday on a light note of photo sessions and catching up with lecturers and tutors we haven't seen in ages due to the exams. It wasn't glamarously arranged, it wasn't lavishly organized, it was a simple ceremony that carried with it a meaning that will echo throughout my life.

The chaplain, Reverend Kim, gave a short speech, asking us to remember to take a deep breathe and to pause and think, and let time run slowly for once.

Which is exactly what I did after the ceremony ended. I paused and looked around at people around me. And I smiled.

The original group of people you hang out with, they're still there. You haven't stopped by to say hello for a very long time, and the valedictory finally gave you a chance to. A chance, to mend what was broken, a chance to apologize for the wrongs you wrought.

Then you noticed the group you're with now. The people whom you currently think understands you the best. The group of people who had not shown a side of themselves that you will grow to despise later in time. The group of people who had shown you the side that you've grown to like so much. The group, that you hope against all odds, will be the final nest you have to find.

Turning around, you see another group of people. They are the ones you do not really like. Throughout the year, they had not given you a hard time, all they had done is just be themselves, and as intolerant as you are, you chose to despise them, to hate them. You didn't give them a chance to see how well they might turn out to be as a person. You allowed your rash judgements to get in the way of knowing more people.

You looked towards the other side, you see a group of people that you had grown so familiar with. Your friends. The people who would say hi to you, who would ask you how you are doing, who would say bye when you are leaving. The people, who you had not been given a chance to grow close to. The people, who you know will definitely be great friends to know.

And finally, your eyes rest upon the remaining people you barely recognize, and you realize, how ignorant you were throughout the year.

College ended, yes. But it by no means signify an end to all the familiar ways of life we had grown so accustomed to this year. Let not this temporal end tear us apart, but let it strengthen our resolve to stay together.

No matter what I may have told you, or thought about you, just remember, all of you guys, all of you reading this right now, you had played, or somehow impart an essence of you into my college life.

Thank you. For all the things you've done for me. Thank you, for all the things you did not do for me. Thank you, for being there for me. And thank you, for being a part of my life.

I somehow find you and I collide...