“If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”

In this short existence we have on Earth called life, we make certain decisions for us to be able to move may it be backward or forward. Making decisions require the participation of not only the mind but also the heart and soul. People, including us, senior students, find it hard to decide on what steps to take especially now that we're heading towards a new stage, a new level of education, a new life. Sometimes I wonder, I know you do too, what we would all be like after a few years? Will my dreams now be the same as my dreams when I go to college? When I was younger, I wanted to be a maid 'cause I enjoyed cleaning before =)) then I wanted to be a teacher. Now I want to be a lawyer, a musician, an artist! I sure do have a lot of ambitions! Who knows, I might end up as a manager of some famous restaurant.What would our children look like or who will we be married to? and what kind of person will I be like?... Will I still be as non-feminine as I am now? =)) I still remember the first day of this school year. I was late, as usual. In our class, there were 50 students all in one room. We made new friends, created tighter bonds and shared a lot of memories... and food. =)) Seems like just yesterday when we were just freshmen. Soon, we would all be separated. There are only 10 Fridays remaining 'til graduation. What will happen to us? Emotionally and mentally, I'm not yet ready to take the step forward to college. I'm afraid. But I'm much more afraid to let go. Letting go of high school... Just talking about it now breaks my heart. Right now, the future seems unclear. Well, it always does. We don't know what's ahead of us. Only God knows. With a positive outlook in life and a strong faith in Him that everything will be alright, we wouldn't be too stressed about thinking what the future holds for us. Thinking back, I never thought of the future before as much as I do now. I had no worries about what may happen to me when I was in my younger years. Now that I'm in my senior year in high school, whoa, everything changed. I now have a larger perspective about life. Now, there's no passing day that I don't think about what's down the road for me. Every night before I sleep, I imagine things that I want to happen. Right now, I'm happy at where I'm at. Of course nothing is perfectly the way how you want it to be. I sometimes get depressed over things I can't have. We all do. We just have to learn to accept things the way they are. We don't always get what we want but that just means that that isn't what we need. Believe that God has plans for each and everyone of us and that in His plans include us making plans for ourselves. Making plans leads us to making decisions. Our decisions then lead us to the path we have chosen. We have to work hard to achieve what we want to achieve. Our dreams won't come to us. We have to chase after them. Understand that we can't reach the destined road for us if we don't start and build a bridge towards that road. As my speech is coming to an end, I'll leave you all, the words of William Arthur Ward, “If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it.”