It’s been officially more than a year since I graduated from college, and this is the first time that I realized something at last…
I’m an adult now.
Why? Because I rarely have time to go out and have quality time with my friends and family, whenever a trip is being cooked up, I’m always unavailable. This could be easy if my work wasn’t in the night shifts, then maybe I could still make it to the night-outs and partying my normal, day-working friends come up with. Oh, the joys of working in a call center. Pun intended.
And since I man the night shift, that leaves me no time to enjoy the daylight, particularly last summer. Everyone that I see on Facebook are happily frolicking along the white sands of Boracay, Puerto Galera or wherever. Instead, I was at work, and my only trips outside work are in malls and cinemas. Man, I missed my chance to go to the beach and gawk at ladies in 2-piece bikinis! (just kidding, or am I? ;D)
I was also deprived of the opportunity to return to my lovely home down South, in Los Banos. I don’t really have any idea where I’m getting the drive to work right now. I’m not even close to losing my sanity. There is one thing I am continuously losing though, and that’s sleep. I even sleep at the office after shift, since it’s too hot at home for me to get any real much-needed rest. La Nina? What La Nina?
If I had the chance, I would still go to the beach today despite the rain, to make up for lost opportunities. It’s been 2 years from what I remember, since my last trip to the beach. So here I am, praying for a chance to get surfing,whoever it may be with as long as it takes me to the seas.
August 17, 2010 at 7:15 am |
Good thing I was able to have my summer getaway. Never too late for summer Eli!
August 17, 2010 at 7:21 am |
you were lucky to have one!
August 17, 2010 at 9:47 am |
sometimes you really have to make time for things like this, rest and recreation is very important.