By Kim Tubongbanua
Art by Keren Ahhi
As we keep going in our lives, we bump into different people. There are billions of us, there’s a reason why we’re all here. Like how a mother is living and enduring the pain of having to work day ‘til night no matter how tired to give their child the best life they can offer to them, like how a teenager decides to not give up because a world is a big place and they probably haven’t even seen ¼ of it. Like how everyone is keeping themselves together in this cruel world, I have my own reasons too.
I keep on going because I know the world is much bigger than I think it is, the fact that a lot of reasons are keeping me away from getting to go on and explore it. Not many people know why they’re still going on, if you don’t know why you’re still going on, stop slacking and find a reason to keep going or why you’re still going. In my life right now, it’s a rocky road and there may be a traffic in my journey, but with patience we get to know how to keep going. There are times where I think that I should just give up this part of my life but I tell myself that maybe it’s time to explore and learn what hardship is like. I couldn’t just stop and regret everything as a teen, I should know what it’s like to be in adulthood. Yes I would like to know what catching up with deadlines in the office feel like, pay for my own basics or even have a family even if it means having to endure pain.
Even if hardship is what life is about most of the time, it’s something I’m willing to explore and I will keep going to experience it. It might be a weird or strange reason to keep going but it’s a part of life I haven’t explored much since I’m just a teen. The curiosity just flows in my mind and I can’t help it. In conclusion, it’s adulthood I want to experience, where school isn’t everything, but realizing what slice of life really feels like.