Saturday, April 17, 2010
the end of a semester.
this semester has finally come to an end. the ups and the downs, the valleys and the pits. no matter of painful it was, how hard it seemed, now you look back at everything through an utterly blurred frame. you cannot recall what were those things that made you cry. you cannot remember the things that made your heart wrench. yet at the same time, you remember the tears. the pain. the hurt. the ache. you also remember the laughs, the love, the smiles, the joy. perhaps what you have been searching for the entire semester was solace. and solace was what eluded you. not that you've finally grasped it.
it's queer how people feel loneliness. some are shrouded by it wherever they go, whoever they're with, because their heart has always been walled up. many try to break open this wall, only to be confronted by emptiness. for some, loneliness always trails behind, never being able to catch up. for others, it seems like an endless race where there's never a clear winner.
you walk into lesson alone. you desperately watch the clock tick by. you leave class alone. you return to where you at least have chances of making conversation with the people you know. it seems like the entire world has decided to evacuate from your life, albeit temporarily. perhaps your only life lines are your phone and your laptop, but even then they bail out on you.
you can't wait to get busy. but when your life gets filled up, you start to realize the pile-up of what you don't want to handle is as draining as a void. even as everyone is talking, the silence is deafening. you watch the days crawl by, hoping that there will be a new addition that make you feel less alone. but somehow you start to wonder, perhaps it is just you. you that everything good wants to avoid.
let's await the start of a new chapter on 10th may.