It's nice to reminisce sometimes. Go back to where you"ve been and realize that things are really not as good or as bad as you remember them to be.
I went to an old familiar place last weekend with old friends. We ate at a place where u we couldn't afford to go to as students. It feels good to be able to pay for a decent meal. Oh the simple joys of life.
It has been almost 8 years since I left the university but somehow every time I go back there, it feels like it wasn't that long ago since I left my "comfort zone". It took two years before I finally had the guts to leave UP and face the world. Talk about being a slow adjuster. When all my classmates have already left and never looked back, I was still in my withdrawal phase. The phase that felt the break-up wasn't real, that we were still together. I admit it takes a damn long time for me to adjust. But in time, I learned.
I will always have this special connection to a place which saw me battle homesickness, fall in love, make life-long friends, struggle in my spiritual walk or simply live.
I spent 8 years in the university. And it has been 6 years since I left.
If I would be given a choice, I'd go through that again and probably fall in love more and made more life-long friends.
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some people and places step in to your life and leave foot prints in our hearts to last forever...UP has definitely branded us all for life... :)
Yes, I wanna run with you back in that all-too-familiar place. What's the plan?
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