5 YEARS AFTER GRADUATION

Thank you Facebook friends for reminding me that it’s been 5 years since graduation. It has been a crazy half-decade! If you would’ve asked me then where I think I’ll be now, I’m sure I’ll get 95% wrong. Life turned out differently for me. It took me to places I didn’t expect I would go and even to places I’ve never heard of before. Who would’ve thought that an AB Psych major with a random ass minor in French, would enter fashion, go on hiatus to facilitate youth empowerment workshops in Bialystok, go back home, only to leave it for a logistics job 3 hours away from Manila? I certainly didn’t picture that.

I honestly thought I’d be doing something more meaningful with my life after graduating. What is meaningful, anyway? Haven’t I been chasing “meaning” in the last 5 years? Am I only being this critical because I’m looking through my decisions with the wisdom of the present? To be fair, I have chased my passions since graduating. I have done freelance work in fashion and I have moved here to travel more (which I’m lucky to have done, yay!). But did anyone ever say that passions and dreams and loves are stagnant? Nope, I don’t think so. I feel a wave coming over me again, and this time, it’s pulling me into something more. An undercurrent of desire for what is to be, for the promise of what can be, and the fulfilment of personal legends. And lemme tell you, it’s damn exciting and damn terrifying at the same time! Yes, the last 5 years have been great.. But like the slogan of our Blue Roast: the viaje never ends. You would be doing yourself a great dishonour if you stop striving for growth and settling for the what is.

So here’s to the years that were and to the years that will be!