The Last Day of a Teenage Life

The clock is slowly ticking, the sands in the hourglass going pass one more day, and the PC-generated e-clock is telling me the 30th of August is near. To some, it is just an ordinary day, a civil holiday at the least in the Philippines. But for someone like me, it is more than just a civil holiday, it is the last day of my teenage life.

Yes peeps, I'll spend the last 24 hours making the most of what is left of me being a teen.

Scary thought that afterwards, I'll be hitting the big 2--0, BEINTE or what I've been branding this since I started my birthday countdown last July, 20@10. I'll age a year more, a year more wiser, a year more experienced, and so on.

So what I've been up to for the last 10 years? Nothing much except maybe had some of the most wackiest things to ever happen in my life during that period. I could list it all down if I could but so far...:

1)Wore my first pair of eyeglasses
2)Went and lived abroad for a year
3)Became a school athlete
4)Participated in a musical recital
5)Went "gala" all by myself which led me to places like MOA, to Paragon Plaza to the Philamlife Theater in U.N. Avenue.
6)Went to a school trip to Mount Banahaw being the only high school freshman in a batch of seniors.
7)Traveled to Singapore alone
8)Was dance partners with his Grade 6 crush for a charity event
9)Knocked out but ended up winning a medal in a competition anyway.
10)Became an intern of a radio station

Crazy huh? The list goes on and on and I could not remember them all.

I always fear that I'll reach that point in life that the end of my life is drawing near as I don't know if there is life after death. Being a devout (but not necessarily a really zealous) Catholic, it's hard for me to accept that everything has an end date but I know there's a reason so I have to suck it up and face it.

Like what my kuya said to me 10 years ago, "live life to the fullest".

I need to live a life well lived, I need to make sure that I lived a life that fulfilled my purpose on earth. Because after all, we only have "ONE LIFE TO LIVE".

I think I've already gone far from being this kid who loves to read history books and being a geo-know-it-all to someone who still loves to read anything  historic and still somewhat of a "know-it-all". It really helps that I am with people who continue to support me, to love me, and see me as what I am and what I will continue to shape up to be what I am in this lifetime.

As I enter my 20's, everything will change. May it be for better or otherwise, I'll face it, I'll conquer it.

20 at '10 baby!