I'm Not Missing You

I’ve been working for two months now and to say that the past couple months have been life changing is an understatement. Much has been altered in many major aspects – to something as major as my monthly budget and expenses, to something as ordinary as my daily routine.

I don’t get to stay awake until the wee hours of the morning knowing that I will be able to sleep in the next day anyway. Well, I can, but that would immensely affect my mental performance (which I want to be 100% as much as possible, haha).

And as a corollary to the previous paragraph, I have to wake up quite very early for most days of the week because I have to go to work. I actually don’t have to be up THAT early, but no thanks to MRT, I had to if I want to eschew the long lines that exponentially increase the amount of travel time with each later minute I stay at home.

I don’t get to enjoy the student discount on the bus anymore! Though I still get to say “SM North po, estudyante”, it’s not for me but for my nephew who studies in Pisay.

I don’t get to randomly have evening social plans because I have to worry whether or not I get to come home early enough. Again, technically I can, but I would have to suffer the consequences, haha!

Basically, I’m living the hectic life of a yuppie. This is what my friends have been talking about for years already whilst I continued to slave in the academe! Haha!

There are many things I’m unable to do now that I’m working compared to when I was still a student. Yes, these were pleasurable perks, but make no mistake, I’m not missing that life at all. Surely, the changes I had to adjust to required a lot of effort on my part. But I know that these would always bear fruit – every 15th of the month to be exact. Haha! And these fruits I excitedly harvest to enjoy things that I only used to dream of enjoying – not only for myself, but also for my friends and loved ones. 

"Welcome to the adult world! Before you know it, miss mo na ang college life. Actually, wala namang difference. It'll only make your character more defined..."~Ate Mennen, on her guestbook message on my graduation party