come **AND** go

Life guarantees nothing. Well, aside from paying taxes and death, that statement's quite reasonable. Nobody's gonna stay with someone forever. People come and go, as they say. And hell yeah, that's just the way it is.

Today, I've learned that a lot of things will never be the same as before. It all started when I went online and a friend buzzed me up to check on the UST website for our new sections. Reshuffling really sucks for us from the very first time we've heard of it. I didn't think it would hit me this much, but it did. Though reshuffled, I'm still in the same section and same room. Only big differences are my schedule, subjects and the people I'm gonna share that very room with. Those in my messenger list were rapidly going online as the news spread. Sadly, most of my closest friends will be staying at the opposite end of the hall. Some more bad news attacked us today. Another two friends of ours are on the verge of not enrolling this week. One is going to the US before the first semester ends and the other one is transferring to UP. College life isn't like high school that friends matter more than studies. In this level of our lives, people we spend the library hours with, people we eat whatever and wherever with and people we talk about anything with are just consolations of the hard work we're putting up to make a better future. What matters most, in this stage, is our career in the future. But, it really feels bad to see someone who is a part of me, in some way, to be going away. These consolations I've got are somehow the reasons why I still strive in and survive college life. They are the ones who experience the same struggles and triumphs with me. They are what I am.

So, in its purest nature, people really come and go. We meet someone, stay in and touch our lives for a while and then they're gone. We can't help it. There are always unescapable reasons for them to leave us. Memories are what we always got left from them.

How thankful I am that these consolations I have have COME into my life. How desolated I will be to see them GO. How wishful I am to see them stay at **AND** and never leave.