My High School Days
I now understand that there is some truth in that old Sharon Cuneta song High School Life – the lyrics are so true it brings me back to my younger days:
high school life, oh my high school life every memory kay ganda. bakit kung graduation na’y luluha kang talaga.
High school life is the best. I met my most treasured friends during secondary studies and we had a lot of unforgettable experiences together. Me, Mary, Belinda and Rhea have been really good pals since senior year and throughout everything, good times and bad, different universities and even now that some of us have already gotten hitched, our friendship is just unstoppable! We could laugh like crazy on the shallowest things and we had the best times bumming around, eating, malling and just talking nonsense.
School was our priority. Well…sort of. One time our Physics teacher caught us cutting classes and she was fuming mad, she required us to submit a written explanation from our parents! Or else, she’d report us to the principal’s office and, chances are, we wouldn’t graduate. Bummer! We’re supposed to graduate in two months time and we’re already looking forward to college. Fortunately, we have a very special talent in problem solving. heh-heh! We composed the letters ourselves and we forged our parents’ signatures. It was a desperate move and, by far, the naughtiest thing we’ve ever done.
But hey! I do look back at my old self and say “what the hell was I doing?!”
We basically agree on a lot of things but fights are inevitable. There was a time when me and “toot-toot” (secret!) ignored each other for a couple of days. I can hardly remember the root cause of our misunderstanding but it was just a petty thing. Heck! Can’t even remember how is was resolved! But one thing I really appreciate in our friendship is that despite our conflicting personalities, we simply fit 
When we entered college, though, we seldom got the chance to see each other. We went to different universities and we took up different courses. We met new people and we hung out with a new group of friends. We have been exposed to a much bigger world but we remained special to one another. We managed to keep in touch through e-mails, friendster, and whenever one of us has the time to spare, we do home visits.
Given the 9 long years of being close friends, I can say that we all learned from everything that we went through, including that crime we did in our Physics class haha! Sure, people can call us bitchy for all they want, but if was all part of the learning process, whether good or bad. I honestly don’t see the need to have anything edited or deleted. No regrets!
PS. If God would grant this, I would love to read again this post when I turn 80 yrs old I want to relive again the memories and the lessons that go with it.
