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Where'd all the time go?

It's starting to fly

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— Rudy Francisco

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Memory, Christmas.

"Seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."

Life is short, yet so many moments slip through our fingers like sand in the wind. We forget the mundane, the ordinary, but the unexpected, striking ones linger. The large canvas of our youth, filled with countless memories, gets condensed to a few vibrant strokes. Why? Because whether we like it or not, we forget. We forget the small stuff, the routine. But the moments when we choose to break from the norm? Those stay with us forever.

Carpe Diem.

I remember my 1st grade Christmas party—an ordinary day, filled with the usual joy and excitement. Everyone had fun, It was a lively classroom filled with laughter and banter. To our surprise, Jollibee, the big, red, smiling mascot, came to our party unexpectedly, to the students, atleast. My friends, classmates, rushed towards him in excitement. and me? I felt, different. I chose not to follow the crowd, went against the flow. I stopped, and I watched. In a world that tell us to conform to a culture the media dictates, to be like everyone else, Think for yourself.

That is the beauty of life, friends. We dont remember things that were ordinary, we remember the moments we stepped outside the crowd, when we chose to be different. To not just go along with the flow but to question it. To think for ourselves. To be the odd one, not the common one. Carpe Diem. Seize the day, because those moments will stay with us long after the rest fades away. Be you, Be unique, be unconstrained, Seize the day. Gather ye rosebuds while ye may.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying.

Merry Christmas, my friends. May you find your own moments to stand apart, to feel alive, and to seize the day.