Don't Always Be in a Hurry

Some weeks ago, I was on the Internet browsing when I stumbled on this site that has some current movies which included movies from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Sylvester Stallone and some other actors but for some reason, my brain refused to look at what every else who sees those movie posters would be looking at, instead I was looking at how old two of my favourite actors have gotten and to be honest, it felt sad.

For a minute I stopped browsing and got lost in thought. I remembered my primary school, I thought about my wicked Primary 4 class teacher who would always punish us for the slightest offence and how back then, I felt the man was going to kill us. I remembered how young I was back then and how excited I was when I eventually got to high school. I remembered the friends I made back then and all the things we went through while surviving high school.

And then I remembered our last days in high school and how we just couldn't wait to be done with it because we felt it was stressful and needed a break. I remember how school sick I felt after about a week of staying at home after we were done with High-school, how I missed my high school friends and would always reminisce on all the things we did in high school. Even thinking about the days we got punished didn't feel like a bad memory anymore, they all brought smiles to my face just thinking about it all.

And now I'm in the university, in my final year and as usual, I can't wait to be done and move ahead with life but then I know that five years from now, I would look back at this day and wish that I spent more times with my friends, wish that I took more pictures and more videos of both the good and bad times because in the future, they both would be important memories to me.

Life is moving fast and before we know it, we're getting old. But that doesn't mean that we can't have fun and spend time with friends because the truth is that many of us will be going on different journey with different destinations once that thing connecting us is over. It happened to me in primary school, it happened in high school and now it's about to happen to me in the university.

Don't always be in a hurry, sometimes it a good thing to take a break and just relax and take it all in because soon enough, all of this will be nothing but memories and you won't be able to enjoy it as much as you would have if you had lived in the moment. So make the best of your time now.

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