My Own Camera Lens

“All the world is a stage, all the men and women are merely players. They have their exists and their entrances; And one men in his time plays many parts.” This is just one of my favorite lines coming from the famous stage play of Shakespeare. Yes, perhaps  we are actors and actresses of our time and we have so many roles to play but the greatest distinction in this so- called drama of our lives among the other is that the setting is real, the script is not written, the mood is interchangeable and the story’s  ending  is unknown. Once the character is embraced, one has to act as if it’s the last. Lights, camera, action!

This college is my stage. The prelude of my first years in college was filled with uncertainties of what character I should play. I have gone taming my tongue knowing that everything around is new to me at that time. The first name calling, the first meeting of the teachers and classmates, the student orientation and the “tell me about yourself” scene in a classroom  were just a few which I wished the teacher would forget. Anyhow, the significance of that getting- to- know stage came into a realization when I met those few people whom I called my first college friends. Those friends were the other characters of my story but unknowingly, their few who have taken their exists already.  Another year another pace came into my sight. Little by little I learned to accept wholeheartedly the changes that seem to be the twists in the real drama of my college life. Who would have thought that I have befriended some people that I thought I couldn’t get along with? I have admired teachers that I thought so impossible to deal with, and especially I acknowledged principles that I thought so impossible to believed in. True enough, one would never know unless he or she tries. The learning of accepting chances and taking choices happened on my sophomore days. The year next to it, if I may say was the best feature of the play where most of the scenes have wonderful periods and I have performed the greatest performances of my life. In a way, I have come to conquer my frustrations, I have developed my self- esteem, I have shown my potentials and I became the truest person I could ever be. It was indeed the fulfilling point where I have let no one defined the kind of person I should be. I laughed like there’s no tomorrow, I weep like I’ve never done it before and I have loved like I’ve never been in pain. A character I wish I would always be since then.

I’m still paving my way to the grand finale; the last year of my college life where my hopes and dreams are yet to be realized. So for now, I should say… cut! and to be continued… J