It is generally anticipated with great excitement as well as with some sense of imprisonment when another new segment of the schooling year commences. Tomorrow marks the beginning of those sorts for a large sum of students, as the former weeks of fluidity, and free will (granted by the holidays) jolts back into order and routine. The lively buzz of just that jolt, perhaps, is no longer comparable to the kind you’d notice in high school - yet still, there is some kind of electricity evident among those who have reconciled themselves, with great determination, to change and “do better than before“.
Though quite differently with me, as it did previously at the beginning of this year, I’m being reeled into a new group of 150+ odd students belonging to the new pharm cohort for 2008. Consequently, I’ve been thrown into a blurr of emotions that, with great doubt, seem at all positive.
To be honest, I feel a bit shipwrecked at the moment: I’ve been trying my absolute hardest to change my take on this world, and am still left with the sense of helplessness in yield of this “dark thing” that lurks inside; I don’t quite think it’s depression… yet somewhere along those lines, I know it leans to that side as if it’s become the new black hole.
What talent other people possess in being able to survive whenever tides of change flood by: I’m still baffled by the average person’s strength. Yet to be standing here, watching change as it engulfs me leaves the last tinge of melancholy lingering with a nostalgic nausea I cannot run from.
How hard it is, and has been for me thus far, I need not explain.
Yet to notice that I’m still standing and ploughing through it all on my own - is all the recognition I could ever ask for …
I’m sure everyone finds themselves facing times like these. Where every area of their lives presents as doubts with large question marks that seem to beam only at themselves, and it almost feels like torment being speculative over such things that once seemed trustworthy and valuable.
I console myself in such a way, knowing that I am very much human…
So it’s not that I’m in need… or needy .. so to speak.
So much has happened: so much. And sometimes, I feel so troubled by it that I want to run away from it all and throw it all away.
Yet I know… like the blink of an eye, it’ll all pass. Just as it would cost for the good times to come, at last.
Hence, school’s back. … and yeah,
as I’m sure most students would agreee,
it’s just soooo not cool maaaannn!.