Footsteps that can go on for miles.

I sit patiently in the Admin/ Xavier Hall benches on the eve of finals week. Yes it is a Saturday and I opted to study in school for I don't think that my comfy bed would actualyl let me do the studying. i have a pretty good view of the belfield. the grass seems greener these days perhaps due to the rains of last week. its greeness gave me flashes of memories that i spent in that field for the 4 years i've stayed in ateneo

... crossing the field with 2 friends just to know that it was still muddy from the rains... the bonfire celebrating the championship of season 65 (GO ATENEO!)... the ASLA workshops *ten*ten*ten*... the cold misty air of waiting for simbang gabi at the gesu... selling ACGC cds... spending the night for athletics night, while me and my orsem deputy was writing reply letters denying requests of involving some offices to the orsem... how i jumped at the sight of the "falling" lights opening all at the same time.... and how i got to bond with great friends just last summer...

a rhymic tune of a mini-construction was the only sound that was constant. tricycles would come into play once in awhile... a sudden gush of wind passed by making me look at the majestic belarmine building where i spent most of the sophomore year in college. (oh how i miss the bel caf and its 7pesos turon!).. at a distant, students were filming, i guess a last minute requirement for a perhaps a defense that was yet to come. (well.. a familar face came to me as well.. made me feel ticklish inside. hihihi)

i stared patiently again on the thesis statements that i am suppose to be profoundingly expounding on. faith.. hope.. love.. soical action.. evil.. religion.. mga walang hangang meron.. trying to remember all the concepts that i have to remember as i face my perhaps 15 minutes of insanity for philo and 30 minutes of insanity for theo... and after that, sembreak is all mine.. well not really...

as i sit on these benches, with the view leaving me at awe. another set of memories slowly ate me up forgetting all the thesis statements that i was suppose to digest for the coming finals week.

i then shurgged my shoulders... told myself. "it has been worth the cliffhanger risks, buckets of tears, lost friendships, sleepless nights, stressful days..." and yes the list will go on and on and on...

i wonder if there are also people that surrounded me all these years who actually have the same sentiments... of their college life... this may be too early for a graduating student.. but i'd love to walk through those 4 horrible and memorable years of my stay in Ateneo all over again...

but as for now, i go back to these thesis statements for i do want to graduate on time still :)

wish me luck on my (hopefully) last semester in college!