February was something I had never experienced before. Despite being the shortest month, it has impacts that I never counted on getting. Let me sum it up for all of you, my dear readers.
Let's start the end with another end, shall we? January ended pleasantly, my friends and I celebrated one of our friends' birthday. We went out to eat and even had a photo shoot. Things were better than ever. As I recall, I think I mentioned that in my last post.
But February came with a pressure that I almost couldn't take. I felt like I was walking on glass. One wrong move and I would ruin everything, everything felt so heavy. The exams were coming. We had research to do and our teachers weren't too helpful, but that's only based on my experience.
But before all the depressing stuff, let's talk about the good things that happened, shall we? Beautiful buildings and fresh air are the things I've seen and experienced in just ONE SINGLE DAY.
It was the 4th of the month (February). My aunt came home after working in Manila for a long while. She decided to go home the day before my cousin's (her son) birthday. It was supposed to be a surprise for my cousin but it also turned out that I was also surprised. I was flabbergasted! Because we thought that she was coming home at the end of the month.
My aunt said that she wanted to enjoy her time while she was here. So she decided that we (our family) should go and just have some sort of field trip. I was a little bit excited with the thought of going to places and stuff, but I remembered that I would have to wake up early on a weekend for it to happen lol. The level of excitement went from 100% to 90%. Not bad right?
Our first stop was the Simala Shrine, which is well-known here in Cebu. You would be amazed to see the place in real life. It looks like it came out of a movie honestly. I haven't been there since I was 12 or something, so I was happy about visiting.
It is a shrine so my family and I came there to pray. For good health, good grades, and happiness and to thank our creator for everything. I'm not the most religious person ever, but seeing my family and I pray genuinely from the bottom of our hearts made me so happy.
We went to The Temple of Leah next, which was filled with tourists by the way. Seeing them travel and see new things makes me a little jealous not gonna lie. But hey, that was my first time visiting the Temple of Leah so we're all experiencing the place for the first time.
The architecture of that place was amazing, it was like I was in a whole different country like Greece. The statues looked amazing too. Everything about that place was aesthetically pleasing. The air was cold up there, I felt like I needed 2 jackets. Being used to the heat in the Philippines didn't help me whatsoever lol
To the next event, the 14th of February. I've written about that day, so you guys already know all about it. To conclude the post about The Day of Love, I was grateful for everything I had and was super happy about having new friends and being closer to them. That day was kinda continued on February 22 btw, I had a friendly "date" with the person I talked about in that last post. Not only was I happy about that, but so were my friends. They even took photos secretly We also went out to sing karaoke hehehe.
Remember when I said that I didn't want to be that happy all the time?? I think that backfired on me, the next week was... Let's just say that it was the opposite of happiness. It was exam week, and the longest I slept on the days that week was probably 5 or 4 hours. Life throws things at us when it thinks we can handle it and so I did, we all did.
The next week was even worse HAHAHAHAHAHAH. I know I should be sad about it, and I am. But there's nothing left for me to do but laugh it all off. The last two weeks have been extremely draining. Especially the last day of February. I've had a lot of bad days before, but I had to suffer those days alone and that was more than okay with me. I wish that I had to carry all that burden, but it was widespread. My groupmates, and my classmates, suffered with me and it was so painful for me.
Sorry for ranting all of a sudden but that was February for me. March is going to be a whole new narrative. I'm counting on that, I'm already taking the steps. I hope that your February had a much better ending than I had guys. Thank you for reading all this way and reaching the end. Despite all the horrible endings, let's make new happy beginnings. I'll see you guys in the next one!