Closing the Month of July: Hello, August!

People have always dismissed me as some mediocre individual trying to go with the flow, sometimes standing out, and sometimes seated in the corner of the room, trying to think of many things that have been happening in my life. After all, who said 21 years is short of wisdom-inducing experiences?

I have been an activist in my college life, have been burdened with problems in my relationship with my father in my teenage years, have been the center of attention when I was a child -- still innocent, good-looking and independently absorbed with my water-coloured fantasy world.

And now, as I am nearing the end of my twenty-one long years of my life (which means I'm turning twenty-two by next month), I am just beginning to feel the lash of reality, and its never-ending surge of dilemmas, ironies, and disappointments.

I may fail in the end. I may succeed, for whatever I may do and decide. But one thing's for sure: I am learning. I know that the learning process doesn't stop in my adolescence. It goes on and on. An accomplice of maturity and courage to face life in its most complex form. The learning process never stops, never ages, never rusts.

This will be my last month as a twenty-one-year-old. It has been a hurly-burly of trials and decision-makings. But thank goodness, I am coping with it.