June 11, 2011 @ 4:24 PM
It's quite scary how fast time passes, if you think about it. Holidays are half gone, term 3 is starting in 2 weeks, it'll be head prefect campaign season. And in a month or so it'll be housecapt campaign season, and there's so much stuff going on in school in term 3, and we somehow have to mug because in term 4 it'll be EYAs, and after that there's all the results release and post-EYA stuff. OM auditions is in October- was it really that early last year? And there's subject combi and RA selection, and so much more things. And there's so much guides stuff going on now, so many batch initiatives too.
And then handover is probably in August- the sec4s will be stepping down, we'll be taking on sec3 responsibilities, and while I'm looking at all this stuff that's going to be happening soon, too soon, I look back and think where has all that time gone to? We're halfway through sec2- seriously? And OM is over (well the competition stage anyway) and IHG week 1 is over and sportsfest is over and I'm like asdfghjkl. Why does time pass so fast! And yet during the school term time seems to pass agonizingly slowly until I look back and realise how much time is already gone. All that looking forward to the future, we don't seem to realise that looking forward too much also causes us to not be able to enjoy the present enough, until the present becomes the past and we realise that we should've treasured those moments, but it's too late.
Here I am all over again, anticipating the possibilities in the future while also being very worried about whether I can handle everything that's to come. It's like the end of last year, wondering if I could manage OM. And now it's over and I survived- somehow. I think the thing I really need to learn right now is that despite all our worries, we are all infinitely stronger and better than we think, and there's nothing that can pull us down. And there's no point looking forward to the future too much, we need to enjoy the present, because the future will come anyway- sometimes it seems to come too fast, sometimes too slow, but it will come- one day at a time.
Carpe diem.
