Shee Jay Axyne Borinaga 
It was only like yesterday when you were complaining about your legs aching and sweat dripping on your body from waiting in what seemed like an endless line of people in the Registrar’s Office. There is this sport you immerse in every year of walking and running under the killer heat of the sun to chase designated personnel for their signatures for your student clearance. A reminder that in a few weeks’ time, you’re about to be in student mode again.
I have said this before, and I will say it once more. “Again” should not always be something that makes us feel mad but rather grateful, for it means that we are either moving forward or given another chance to do better.
How do you feel about another year passing and a new beginning to this academic endeavor which I presume, you are dreading to finish? Escaping should not be something you always have to think about.
The amount of exhaustion your brain registers every time the talk about studying is brought up is conspicuous. The never-ending cycle of sleep deprivation, mind-twisting tests, massive efforts to balance work and personal time just to preserve your sanity is believably draining. So yes, it is not a crime to have the desire to escape. However, this desire is sometimes what veers away our attention from the good things that emerge before our eyes. Admit it, this college thing is not all bad. The rewarding times after every conquered struggle, amazing discoveries that made your eyes wide open and mind more alert, lessons that made you feel your growth, and friendships you hoped would last a lifetime. These miracles are exactly the things that make us refuse to fast-forward time despite that feeling of wanting to flee. These are priceless, treasured, but ephemeral occasions. And because we know it’s only momentary that we actually guarantee we relish every second of it.
There is beauty to the subjectivity of the passage of time. Some days it could be slow, some days it could be fast. But one thing is for certain: time fleets. This absolute truth makes us appreciate the importance of moments that transcend, opportunities that arise and, at the same time, moments that pass and opportunities that are lost. Time gave us the will and the motivation to move and pursue for we know that it is one thing in this world that is irreversible. Time allowed change and growth. Once it stops running, we all become stagnant, frozen. Thus, I hope you treat time as precious, because despite the fact that it is intangible, unlike other people, you are rich for still having a lot of it in your hands. Do good because soon enough, you will reach your life’s episode of “It’s sad that it ended, but grateful it happened.”
So, while you’re still here, thinking you’re stuck, might as well use it to try and have the time of your life, right?
