Headbutt With Reality

So I was sitting on the edge of the reality, that made me think over and over again about the decision I have done several months ago. I was overwhelmed with how UP can bring me to some avenues I, myself, could not even imagine I might go to. It is hard to quench yourself with the reality that really sucks and really, if I may consider, regretful.

Six years. I spent six years in UP. Yes, I am proud of it not because I spent longer time than I supposed to, but because during that span of time I learned things I think I couldn't learn outside. 

I was hooked up with the "ultimate" freedom we, Isko and Iska, enjoyed whenever we are inside the campus. I enjoyed it and was captured wholly by it. Never did I realize, UP is not the real world. UP, if I could say, is the ideal world where people experience things in the time frame they choose for themselves--no deadlines, no limitations. We can choose the courses we want to enroll at, and we can choose when we will take it. 

After graduation came the fact that I have to step out of the world I was once in and face the real world I am about to be in. Supposedly I should have enough preparation to face it, but I failed. Up to this very moment, I am longing to the UP experiences I have done. Well, they said, it is a norm for a UP grad to experience such. "Graduation / Separation Anxiety," they said. Whatever it may be, I am convicted to have it.

Now that all I have were memories of my UP life, I need to move forward and face the fact that I am now living in the real world where chances are not always fair and the road to success is not always smooth. Yes, it is hard but same as how I survived UP life, I know I can survive it all.