Welcome to the Jungle

Growing is such a fascination. Funny how back then, I thought commuting to Ayala was so long and far - when in fact it only took one jeepney ride and 20 minutes of travel time to get there, traffic included. Funny how back then, I still took the school bus and to my 10-minute-away school. The only mode of public transportation I knew and felt secure with, was the MRT which just traveled along the long stretch of EDSA and the jeepney from Guadalupe which took me home in a few minutes of travel time.

What an irony: as you grow bigger, your world gets smaller.

I still live in Makati, and now Espana, Manila doesn't seem so far away. What is an hour of travel time, of polluted smoke and vehicle fumes? What is 2 jeepney rides and 2 train rides?

A year ago, when I was fresh in college, I thought going home at 6pm from college was late and unsafe. I thought of fear as the sun went down and I was still in the streets of Manila, struggling in between traffic jams to get to home sweet home.

Now I've gotten used to it. This semester greeted me with dismissal times that I thought impossible: 9 PM, in 3 days of the week (when I only go to school 4 days in a week). What am I and my friends but fearless people, even drinking after 9 and going home in midnight's time.

This is life now. Sleep when you can cos you can't have enough of it. Go to school and have fun with everything, your classes and your classmates. Study hard and be rewarded after. Get out of your classes and whatever time it is, hang out and drink to your bodily needs. Welcome to college. No time is too safe or too dangerous to go home. The world has become small afterall.