‘I should stop crying’, are the words that come to my mind every-time I walk past the places we all used to go to together; the 7-11 on the 9th floor, the Taco bell at MBK, the Garden on the 10th floor, the toilets we used to go to all the time during break. We all used to do a lot of crazy and irresponsible stuff, to the point where if we were to do all those things now, we would all definitely get suspended.
For a lot of you guys, this could’ve just been another “friend group”, but for me, it was “the” friend group. I considered all of you my brothers - we all stuck together through thick and thin, we all laughed at each other’s dumb jokes, and we all helped each other find our girls. In fact, if I had a son, I would even call you all his uncles.
But time doesn’t stop for anyone. We all went our separate ways; 2 of us went abroad, 1 is not here anymore, 2 left the school, another 2 have indulged themselves in bad behavior, everyone else has gone their separate ways, and then there’s just me and another person remaining, doing all this hard work just to have a secure life.
I would have never guessed in my life that there would be so many places I would call nostalgic, and I would never have guessed that in those very places, I would only reminisce about those times we spent together and nothing else. Honestly, I can’t put into words what I feel every-time I recall those memories. It feels like someone drilled a hole into my heart; it feels just like a heartbreak, but it’s not - to me, it feels like everyone has just died.
Nevertheless, that was all in the past, and in the books I read, thinking too much about it never results in a good ending. Honestly, I’d like to say that I'm focusing on my future out of my own free will, but that wouldn’t be the truth would it? So to anyone who has read all the way till here, this is my honest piece of advice: ever take the present for granted, because you never know when the present will become just a few flashes of memories.