Parting ways

It is a time of the year...for goodbyes again.

This time we had six weeks - no, seven, counting the holidays - extra before parting ways. Not that that has changed much...though it did change a few, maybe insignificant things. Or maybe those little things will change much in the future.

We cannot buy time. One more week and we would be settled down for the end of our final year. Two more days of classes - même pas! - for we only have one more day, the last being reserved for our presentations.

It would be nice to have this hectic period done and over with. But I will miss these times, in a way. Though I don't quite see why. Logical explanations fail, at times.

There are people I would have liked to get to know better. There are people I wonder about, I wonder how it would have been had that choice not been made. There are so many possibilities, so many different turns we could have taken along the way, leading to an infinite number of different endings.

It is ironic that the very people I would have thanked for their presence, didn't even choose to be there in the first place. It is ironic how support came from people I least expected it from, whereas those on whom I placed my hopes were almost indifferent.

Maybe it was just my lousy judgement. But I am convinced that some time ago, this same judgement would have been correct. The fault might lie with me, or with them. But more likely than not, it lies within the circumstances, the little things that change, and silently, stealthily, brings on bigger changes.

But what is past, is past, and there will be no reliving these past months. The time has come, and it is the future we must make the most of.

To end this post, here is a graduation song that Lai Shin shared with me once: