When Boredom Strikes

   This is a write up I have created out of the blue, while waiting for my end of shift. Nothing really romantic. I kinda lost my sweet bone that day. Haha! But I decided to post it here, perhaps hoping someone can reflect on it. I dunno, maybe with spending time wisely, or reminiscing the old days...

     Doodle... Doodle... Mr. Boredom pays a visit again. Sitting in front of the computer, resolving usual customers' issues, waiting for every tick-tock of the clock until it strikes 4:00 PM, and finally, end of shift. This is the usual scenario and gets kind of boring. I miss the good, old days - the chatting with classmates, the "Ma'am naman!" whenever a quiz came unannounced, the burning of midnight candle when exams come, and the never-fading line, "1/4 Ma'am?!" Hahaha. I miss being young and carefree. Whenever I see kids getting ready for school with their uniforms on, I taste schooldays in the air. I would go back reminiscing the things I've done, and those I didn't do. I would occasionally feel a lump in my throat remembering the people who were once a part of my life, wondering where they could be now.

     No matter how grown up I may seem, there's still that little part of immaturity and childishness. Yet, unlike when I was younger, I know better now. I know better enough to bear in mind that every action - whether good or a bad - will always have its share of consequence. I used to be an impulsive gal, most of the time acting on a rush. But things have changed. Time and experience made me contemplate things before doing or deciding something.

     Ah, how time flies so fast! Looking back, it was as if yesterday when I first got ready for school. I can still feel the excitement of using my first bag, paper, pencil and reading my first book. I remembered the very first people I learned to call "best friends". There are moments when I wish I could go back to being a kid again.

     But we can't always stay little. Like everything else, we need to grow and find out our purpose in this vast universe. We must face our responsibilities. It's just so funny that when I was still young, I wanted to grow up in just one night. When I was still studying, I wanted so bad to work. Now that I'm all grown up and working everyday, I miss my childhood and school days. But I think it wouldn't hurt if one of these ordinary days, we experience being carefree again. Play in the rain without worrying of acquiring flu. Eat all the candies and chocolates there are without thinking of toothaches. Giggling over cute boys during sleepovers. Running barefoot in the grasses, chasing butterflies. Just one day. And maybe, just maybe, this boredom in the real world would be gone. Time check: 4:00 PM. Clock out.