The Uncertain Future/ The Path I Walk Now

The path I walk through inside the school on my way in and out. All photos are taken inside the Ateneo de Manila University.

It’s all been one hell of a roller coaster ride.

It seemed as though it was just yesterday when I began attending review classes, sacrificing a month of my sweet summer time to prepare for the grueling college entrance exams I would partake of that same year. The same goes for my last high school year and the summer after graduation. Now, whenever I would look back to those days, I would always be struck with amazement.

From the beginning of the college entrance examinations to almost the last of my high school days, the future was very uncertain for me. A kind of panic and terror would engulf me when that uncertainty got the best of me and I would think of the infinite ‘what ifs’ I could encounter when the results were out. Rest assured, none of the what ifs ever happened and I sometimes laugh about it now.

But just who would have thought I’d get to where I am today? Even I had never thought of it. It’s funny how things have a way of working themselves out.

I remember how, for the past years, my mom and I would go to trips around Taft to check out my most reasonable choice: De la Salle University and to pick up my brother (whom by that time was a student there). The reason I was so nervous for its exam was that I had already pictured myself as a La Sallista and I felt a huge wave of relief when I did pass.

But praise God, a few new doors opened and I was faced with a very hard decision, uncertainty yet again lurking behind each choice. In the end, I decided not to play safe anymore, to get out of my comfort zone and explore a new world I previously had scarcely any idea of at all.

I am now currently a freshman in the Ateneo de Manila University and I don’t regret anything at all.

These are the images taken during my first semester there (which ended just two weeks ago leaving me with more than enough time to post this and a term break to enjoy!)

(all photos are taken by me and are mine unless stated otherwise). 

the red-brick road. 

the Old Rizal Library. 

cute chairs that are works of art at the same time decorate a part of the campus. 

the New Rizal Library, also known as a hangout place because of the air-conditioning that gives us, students, a relief from the hot Philippine weather.  

Mr. De la Costa looking stern and serious 

The Heritage Bells, the bigger of the two cast on 1832, the smaller one fifty years later, were once used to signal the start and end of classes at the previous Ateneo campuses. Now, we only hear an electronic one ringing every few minutes and ever so often during the day that I sometimes hear it in my head. lol. 

The future is always uncertain, but I am sure the path where I am right now will lead me there.