#448; show the world the warmth of your smile
Saturday, August 21, 2010
The greatest thing Striping has given me is gratitude.
I don't know how to say this because I won't do it justice. Thank you to every single person who has affected me in even the smallest ways these past two and a half years - thank you for making me smile, for making me laugh, for annoying me, for the letters, the words, your smiles, my tears, your tears. Thank you for being part of this amazing experience because it was the greatest destiny and fate I've ever had the privilege, chance and luck to encounter.
Striping has taught me so so so many things - that love brings people together no matter what's happening on the surface, because even if you may be very different people in the end we share tears over the same thing; that sometimes you find comfort in the smallest things, and in the most unexpected people, because sometimes family isn't the first you turn to but it's always the strong steady structure supporting you from behind; that nothing can limits you but yourself, and your fears (thank you alicia), so break free of what you think it normally is and do all you can to turn it into what you want it to be; that the people you know the least can help you the most, and the people you don't expect will share the same sentiments; that when b11atch huddled together in our little clumps and cried, I've never felt more at home.
And even as I sit here thinking/regretting about what I didn't treasure while it lasted, I know it's not regret. I know it was a miracle that I ever had the opportunity to be here the past few years, and I know that while it lasted I did what I could and that's why I stand here with no regrets.
B11ATCH, it's time to step up.
We've known this for a while now, it's going to be surprising, but I know it isn't going to be hard. We've always given our all anyway, haven't we? :) Now we have more people to look out for, but never for a moment think we no longer have anyone looking out for us. I know that as we're sitting in our patrols leading and loving our juniors the way our seniors did for us, I know that nothing will remove the comfort of b11atch - even thirty years from now.
I know that as we step up, when we graduate, when we part ways, we'll never forget modulus batch, our jumpshots, our crude name, our outings, our song singing, our circle sitting, our tears, our hugs.
Thank you so so so much.
Trust me when I say there's a lot more to this. :')
It's all part of a grander plan that is coming true.
7:00 PM
