Dawn of the New Era

As i slowly entered the school campus,my heart beats faster than it mormally does.

Every step im making adds up to my hesitation and nervousness.

New faces, new school, new place.I am feeling quite uneasy already.

As I pace the path I subconsciously travel through memory lane and reminsce my high school days.

I used to see my friends everyday, twelve hours a day since we are classmates.

We were like brothers and sisters and very inseparable.

On weekends we are together again in rehearsing and practising for our practicums and school programs.

We never get tired of each others face.

Graduation came and everything's changed.

We've taken different roads and we have different lives now..

The Angelus prayer brought my senses back to reality.

I let out a deep sigh, and smiled mirthlessly..

With no friends to talk to while im walking down the covered walk,

I have been infected by the loneliness virus.

My uneasiness grew when I entered the classroom,everyone were strangers to me even the language they're speaking are hard to grasp.

It seems like eveyone knows each other and I'm like an alien from outer space.

I want to approach them and introduce myself but I'm tongue tied due to my shyness.

I'm teary eyed already when someone approached me and ask my name.

"I..I..I'm Jane" I said while stammering..

"nice to meet you. I'm Daniel"

He introduced me to my other classmates and again I am feeling tensed, but their friendly smiles gave me the assurance that I will be okay..

After a few talks,I have known almost everybody in the class, and I have meet new friends.

As the first day ended I silently smiled and thank God for giving me new friends and helping me in surviving in the first few hours of my college life..

I realize that I should learn to face new challenges in life.

I should breakfree from my comfort zone and remove all the barriers that's stopping me to succeed..

As what Mahatma Gandhi says

“Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If we keep on saying to myself that we cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that we may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if we have the belief that we can do it, we shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if we may not have it at the beginning.”

Maybe college life is not so bad after all.

I still have three years to discover it myself and learn from it in order to succeed..