Obstacles Don't Define Me

          It’s amazing how time flew by so fast. It was only as if yesterday when I first set foot on the edifice of Ilocos Sur National High School. I was just a small, shy and awkwardly social girl then. Who would have thought that I would transform into someone more socialized, hardworking and responsible?

          THIRD GRADING has already ended. Did I use my time as worthwhile as it could be?  Judging from what I have done last Third Grading, it was the hardest in my whole senior life yet. So many activities with so little time to accomplish them, lessons became deeper and harder and outputs and projects all came at once. Even now that I am writing this, I still have a hangover on the intense stress and exhaustion that I have gone through. My head is still aching because of those constant sleepless nights that I have spent in reviewing and in making my assignments. Will this “torture” ever end? Somehow, I think not.

               

             “Education is spending half of your life in figuring out how to waste the other half of your life.”

          I think it goes like that, I’m not sure. The only thing that I really am sure of is that, as I go on my journey in life, problems and challenges will always find a way to get through me.  But I won’t let those impediments define me, I’LL NEVER GIVE UP.

               

             “No matter how hard and which way the wind howls, a mountain cannot bow to it.”

          I have learned a lot this grading period in my ICT class. I was given ideas on how to make my own web design and it made me more creative somehow. I honestly never thought that I will be making something as complicated as making web designs in my whole life. But as I was able to familiarize myself with the different elements of the MS FrontPage, I found out that it wasn’t really as hard as I thought. All you need to have is patience and a whole lot of exploration to make it work.

          Only two months more to go and we will already be graduating in High School. I want to spend every single remaining second in my High School life worthwhile. And I can only do that if I will take my studies seriously and enjoy my time having fun and laughing with my friends. I’ll make every second count.

New Year, New Me!

          A friend of mine greeted me for this new year and she said in her message that I changed a lot compared to who I was before when we were still Juniors. I was so surprised at first because I didn't notice myself changing that much. But then, I realized that I did changed whether unconsciously or not and the problem is, I really don't know what changed in me. And the sad part? I didn't know if that change was good or not. Anyway, I have come to accept the fact. After all, CHANGE is constant. It always happens.
          I am not that fond in reading horoscopes and I don't believe in them either. But for some reason, I checked my horoscope for this year just for the sake of having fun. What I read there was astonishing because it said that I should get ready because I will totally transform this year. Somehow, I believe that a transformation will happen to me, And I'm going to make sure that it will be a positive transformation. I need to act if I want to change for the better.
          They say that each and every one of us has imperfections in life.We hurt people, we make bad decisions, we do a lot of mistakes and, sometimes, we have the tendency to disobey rules. I, for one, am that kind of person. I won't pretend that I am a saint because I think it's true that there's a darkness in my personality sometimes. Sometimes, I do bad things on purpose but most of the bad things I did are done without me meaning to hurt anyone. I did a lot of stupid and bad things last year and I hurt a lot of people including my practice teachers. If only I could turn back time and bring back every terrible thing I did. But sadly, I can't. What's done is done and those mistakes happened for a reason. I learned from them and it made me a better person somehow. Now, I know how to become sensitive of other's feelings.
          It is never too late to change, right? As long as we live, we can change and that is what I intend to do. A new year means a new start. "Bagong taon ay magbagong buhay." New year gives hope and a new life, I have my mistakes that that will serve as a foundation in building a better me.