Untold Journey 1: Chapter 2 - NEW LIFE, NEW BEGINNING
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She earned a lot of friends in high school, she even became part of their CAT (Citizenship Advancement Training). In there, she experienced what other most teenagers felt. She met a young man, one of the officers in their CAT. He was a good-looking guy. Tall, dark, and handsome as what others could describe. But what caught her attention was his attitude and characteristics.
This young man was kind, quite smart, and serious during their CAT. That’s what she liked about him, beings serious and mysterious guy. She didn’t know why, but during their CAT, this young man kept ordering her around and sometimes pulled her in the platoon and have an activity with her alone. So, it was a kind of “one-on-one” activity with the captain.
That was the beginning of her new life. She began to felt normal, for she was always on her own in her past. But now, her life was colorful, especially when her heart started to beat for a guy. She used to like this young man, with just a few quick glances during their training, she felt contented and satisfied. But, that feeling lasted for only a year.
During their vacation, the young man started to text and call her. At first, she was curious why did it suddenly happen. Because during the times they were together, it was merely an “officer and trainee” relationship. Their sweetness in calls and texts only lasted for a month due to some circumstances. They have different religions, and that hindered them to enter a relationship.
For every sweetness, there’s bitterness. For every happiness, there’s sadness. For every beginning, there’s an ending. The young man came so fast in her life and eventually left her in an instance.
Time ran so fast, that she needed to leave her Alma Matter. She graduated with honors in her High School and she learned a lot of things from her former school. She treasured every moment she experienced in that school because it was all her first time.
The moment she entered a new school, she began to realize the drastic changes that it brought to her life. She knew that what she had experienced in her teenage days was far more interesting than her childhood days. She never regretted to find her new life in this new place.
At first, she was hesitant to discover the new world around her, but later she knew, she was already invaded by her thoughts and made her a better person.
She now realized that life is full of mystery, that life is not all about oneself, that life is precious and should be taken seriously but with ease. She now knows how to value her life, and also the life around her.
Her experiences, either good or bad taught her the essence of life. The challenges she encountered molded her to be tough and braver. Even though she hated those bad circumstances before, she now knew that those are just a way for her to open up her heart, and widen her horizon.
Another chapter of her life was about to begin. Time was really fast and now she needed to enter College. She chose to study at a University as a Scholar. She passed the College Entrance Examination and fortunately became one of their Top Students.
During her college years, she always excelled in her course, from the first year to the second year. She was undeniably smart and kind to others. But there still one thing she lacked, and that was her faith.
Still, she thought that all her academic success and achievement were all due to her own skills, knowledge, and strength. She became proud of herself even though she wasn’t that type of self-conceited one.
During her college life, she also became a Student Assistant in their College Library. She was earning some money, while she was studying. After her class or before her first class, she would have her duty in the College Library, and in there, she would have helped the librarians and assisted the students. Some things she did in the library were arranging books on the shelf, making news clips for vertical files, arranging the student’s library card, encoding new books, and even covering books with plastics. It was a surprise that she has enough strength doing all those things every day in her college years.
Unexpected things happened and she never knew that it would hit her again. It was in her 3rd-year college when she became stressed out of heavy school works and other circumstances. Moreover, she was quite uneasy about their very strict, perfectionist adviser in their major subjects. She felt exhausted all the time, she even skipped meals just to consume enough time to finish all the necessary documents, videos, and activities that were assigned to them.
Days, weeks, months have passed but still, she couldn’t do the first task that was assigned to them. Her parents, especially her mother began to worry again. Her mother became too emotional about her daughter’s situation. Her daughter felt so uncomfortable at all in her life, she became uneasy and often couldn’t sleep well at night. She couldn’t speak well when she was asked and all she did was to smile faintly.
She even skipped her major class because she was too stressed of hearing some scold and harsh words again and again from her terror adviser. She was verbally abused, she heard awful words that she never heard before. It was painful at her side because it was her first time, but she never knew that her adviser just wanted her to become stronger because those situations might really be encountered in real-life scenarios in the future.
Her adviser was known to be strict, perfectionist and quite harsh but they didn’t know that this person has a very good heart, sincere mind, and good intentions with each of her students. She’s like a mother who always knows best for her children.
She never knew why her adviser should do those mean things to them. She was confused and deliberately depressed with her life. She had experienced the same thing before and she never wanted to deal with it anymore.
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