Dear Younger Ones
(Those of you who are ehem, “dying” to get out of college and “taste freedom”, and earn your own moolah, and get out of parental confines, etcetera.)
Let me just say, it’s a cruel world out here. You can never tell who to trust. And even if there are a few people you can trust around, the truth is, you’re on your own. You get to enjoy your own money, yes, but soon enough you’ll realize that you’re trapped in your own (rat)race, and no matter how big you earn, it will never be enough. Self fulfillment does not come everyday. Criticisms (and misjudgements) are staple. Appreciation is scarce.
If only you guys will listen and believe me, I shall keep reminding you that there’s no need to rush. Trust me, you DON’T want to rush. Do yourself a favor and enjoy your childhood. If you can’t enjoy it, then fight for it. Live one day at a time.
If you’re a kid and you have access to Barbie dolls and crayons and coloring books that you don’t have to buy for yourself because your parents give them to you generously, then play your heart out. If you’re a student and you can spend your afternoons eating isaw at Kalayaan, or hanging out at Sunken garden with a guitar, or cramming for your term paper; and you can go to school in torn jeans, old shirt, and worn-out chuck taylors, then don’t go thinking about pin-striped slacks and stilettos, and payslips, and business meetings, and your own condo unit without your parents around, and night outs after work. I tell you, and you must believe me, life out here is not as cool as we all thought it is.
Then again, I’ve been there. And I was one of them who did not want to listen. So go ahead, see for yourself. Hurry on with your life. Go find yourself a gold thread even, so you can pull the string everytime you want to rush time. Once you’re here, I’m sure, and I need not prove, you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
Hay, I so agree. That’s what I keep telling my younger friends who can’t wait to graduate: when you get here, you’d wish you didn’t hurry so much.
Here here. Haahaa! Yeah, it’s not all it’s cracked up to be. But we do the best we can’t don’t we.
Thanks for sharing RIZ. Wisdom from the still young. Ha!
Yeah, it’s tough out here. But hey, we have each other to lean on.
*squeeze*
I also say this stuff to students now. But when I was a student I would roll my eyes every time I hear this speech from an adult. It’s like, “Yeah, yeah, you all say that. What’s all the hullabaloo about?” And now that I’m here stuck in the middle of the corporate field, I realize that everyone who said that to me back then was right. The real world is a cruel place to live in!!!
yeh yeh you’re absolutely right. sometimes i still wish na nasa school pako. life was less complicated when i was still in college.
hay. i can’t help but wish na nasa school pa rin ako. baraha sa tambayan, isaw (mas gusto ko sa ilang), monay with cheese.
shucks. gusto ko rin bumalik sa highschool. alala mo banta days?? haha.
Sounds like somebody is getting old here. Haha. I received an email last week with the same content you’ve just posted. Hehe.
I totally agree with you. Last month I told my Nanay that I want to get back in college. And do ten more thesis, so I can have unlimited allowance once again. Hehe=)
Nakakabadtrip talaga mag-budget ng sweldo. At wag ka, single pa tayo sa lagay na yan riz, eh pano kung may talong kang anak na nasa college? wahehe.
Ang haba ng comment ko, sorry..I got carried away.
Inaatake ka lang ng Peter Pan Syndrome.Hehe
Yeah. Be cool, stay in school! Extend if you have to. I’m kidding. No, but seriously, extend if you have to. LOLZ
haha o bakit naging ate ate ka bigla? :p
may credit card na ko ngayon tapos nung bata ko ang tingin ko sa credit card EVIL.
where were you when i needed this? hehehe.
but chyeah, i completely agree. and hey, it’s not as if you’re THAT old. so chill. eat chocolates and everything illegal. haha, :)
sabi nga sa just like heaven there might not be a later [or something to that effect] so live in the now with the hope of eternity, makes it funner, you know? :)
True. It pays to slow down one’s pace in life.
After college, it’s a whole new ball game and though it’d be cruel to say it, I’d risk it - life after college is survival of the fittest.
To survive, you have to be strong and when you’re strong enough, you have to smarten up and be ideally fit to succeed.
Very well said. Adulthood can sometimes suck… feels like you have less purchasing power to laze around, and do all the fun-silly stuffs associated with youth.
aaww.. i really need this.
kung kelan naman gagraduate na ako… :)
Hay, true true…life after college is more complicated.
yes… you can never have enough money!
I miss being a student… cut class when you want to and still get your weekly allowance. T_T
ako gusto ko bumalik ng highscool. da best yun..kakamiss =,(
haha, yeah. lookit me, student in cdo. :D
Excellent advice for the younger generation. I wish I read something like this when I was a kid. Like you, all I can do now is tell young people to enjoy life’s pace. Enjoy every moment as a kid, teen or young adult.
Good read. Thanks for sharing. :)
Hi Riz! Been calling you-pero di ka sumagot. Anyway, I won’t be agreeing with the post because we’re against the flow! Hehe.
Oo masarap nung bata. But I can still remember the dread of exams and requirements and trying to understand what this hard-to-understand book is trying to say! Back then-I just wanted to be a missionary na lang-just to escape school stuff. I also remember my endless wonderful nights at the UPLB Soccer field, with guitar, banig, yes! Monay with Cheese Whiz!
(hay mahaba! I decided to post it in my blog na lang!) …
here: http://youwillbeforever.blogspot.com/2007/03/dear-young-ones.html
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