Moving out

It was a hard decision to stay and continue or leave and face a new adventure.

During my last months in SLU, I got to be close with people- something I didn't plan to- and maintained a good performance in my academics. Also, I got accustomed to living like the locals and loved the city.

How ironic that at first I planned every thing-how to leave Baguio and go to Manila- and just stop and think about staying until I graduate.

I didn't tell my friends about my leave because I thought it be better that it stays that way but the emotion I felt about leaving them got the best of me and sought the guidance councilor about my problem. This continued until the end of the school year and I have to admit leaving was not the only thing I talked with her. I also talked to her about my parents and my brother and my future.

She told me a lot of things but what stayed most are these:

• I over think A LOT (a trait I got from my mother). If there is a problem I think not only about the problem but a lot of other things regarding to the problem, no matter how little its included. She told me to "Chunk each problem and solve them and once it is settled, don't go back EVER".
• Try and do it.
• Friends will remain friends even if they are far away
• It is the student that makes his or her future not the school she/he is studying at.

You see, I was a bit in the twilight zone. My parents, my mother actually told me that I should consider transferring to UP since I have remarkable grades. That was my initial plan but plans change. I wanted to tell my mother about staying but I know her and the quote saying "Mothers know best", I followed her order.

True enough she was correct.

Mothers know best.

But leaving my friends were hard. But luckily enough we stayed in contact even today (Thank you Facebook!) and happy that somehow they are still the same bunch I met went I left.