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Friday, June 27, 2008

CAN'T WE

UNEDITED SAMPLE LITERARY ARTICLE
By Maylene L Manzano
III-Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen


Time is ticking. It’s only a matter of months before we go our separate ways. Why does it have to end like this? We can still be friends, can’t we?


From the moment I stepped into the gates of the new world I’m about to live in, I stood alone. Every face I saw was a stranger to me. Every little thing that surrounded me was nothing but ordinary. I had never felt so left out before. I had never felt this strange before. I was so scared.


For months, I struggled to survive in this harsh world. No one, not even a single face in the crowd, ever care for me. Not even one of those people became my friend. It was so hard to stand alone with my own to feet in the midst of all the people I hardly know. I almost gave up. I was on the verge of letting go of everything I have longed for years. But then, in a blink of an eye, everything changed.


I thought I wouldn’t meet someone that would accept me as me. Someone who doesn’t care whether you’re Ms. Congeniality or the smartest girl in school. He was the only person that befriended me not because I’m smart or I look so helpless. He chose me to be him friend because he wants to. And that’s when I realized maybe it’s not too late to change.


Since then, I learned to accept who I really am. At first, from the very moment I walked inside this fine institution, I didn’t know who I am. I was quite confused. I thought maybe my personality was just flexible that’s why I can be anyone I want to be. But I was wrong. I didn’t notice I was already pretending someone I am not. I became the mirror of each and everyone’s personality-everyone’s except mine. But when I met him, he brought out the real me up to the reality I was in. He didn’t make me into a whole new person. But instead, he lifted up my spirits and let everyone see that I was not the person they thought I am.


He became my inspiration in everything I did. He served as my role model. Although he was not like any other student in the world I am now in, he was the kind of person with an attitude incomparable to anyone I had ever known. If I may say so myself, he was better than anyone else. True, he was not the intelligent Mr. Know-It-All but he’s the kind of guy who has the heart of a true person.


But then, like anything else in this world, everything has its limit. You may say we’re quite inseparable. But the time came when we all had to let go of everything we had for years.


Everything was ruined. The friendship we had was put into waste. It seemed like everything we had before was just a part of an act. Those memories we’re just lies. It didn’t even cross my mind that such thing would be the reason for our friendship to come to an end. I didn’t even saw it coming. But I guess, everything happened for a reason.


Now, we’re in good terms but it isn’t the same as before. We now have different paths to take. It’s only a matter of months before you finally leave me for good. In just a few months, you’ll be miles away from me.


Until now, I still hope it’s not too late to put things back to the way it used to be. No matter what happens, as long as the sun still smiles back, the moon shows its luminous light, the stars still sparkle on the night sky, and the clouds make the sky as beautiful as ever, we can still be friends, can’t we?

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