The Present
Friday, August 12, 2011
Hey batch!
So farewell was yesterday, huh. Haha I went to Si Hui's and Xin Ying's class today just before 3rd Lang, and I started singing randomly. Xin Ying said "sing something else!" because I was singing that particular song for a very longgg time.
So then I realised, when I was about to sing, that Breakaway was 'just so yesterday'.
Sigh.
I remember sitting last year, during Farewell, in the AVA Room, and thinking, 'whoopsies, we have only one more year to go with our directs! Waitttt we actually one more year?! YIPPEEEEE!" and I did a little dance in my head, with my tiny imaginary self.
And now, it's, what, negative one day?
It hit me when I was sitting there yesterday, listening to Sarah's speech, with tears in my eyes. It didn't really sink in until then, and I swear I heard a little shake in Sarah's voice, and I was just sitting there, trying to hide the tear trail on my pinafore, wondering how in the wonderful few hundred million km of Earth Sarah was managing to not burst out into tears.
Then there was that second when at the Foyer, I asked Clara, whose eyes I could barely see because of her squinting, whether she was going to cry. And that understanding I felt when she mumbled, "I'm going to go
home and cry."
Well, we all have those emotions. We can't deny it. (Well, maybe some of us don't really feel it, but I'm addressing the majority that
do feel it.)
But we can't actually cling onto them forever. We have to let go, eventually. Even though I'm sure during band practice, we'll glance at the spot where our directs used to sit, and sigh.
You know what? We're gonna turn our heads back and focus. Band, at least for the rest of the year, can't be just about how we miss our directs. We still move on. Everyone does.
And for now, this batch is going to make it. Even though we might be fresh players, our journey in rgssb less than halfway experienced, we're gonna link our arms, join the rest of the band, and continue on this voyage - together. Because the only people that are going to be with you throughout these four years are your batch mates.
Not anyone else.
There's only going to be your batchmates who's going to pull you through when you feel like giving up. Yeap, you got it,
only your batchmates.
So, Bandemonium, are we going to go through this as a batch? Are we going to be there for each other when the going gets tough? Are we going to be alone, now that our directs are gone for good, or are we going to be a batch in this journey?
That's up to you to decide. For everyone is important, whether in our batch, or in band as a whole. So don't give up, because you're not the only one who's going to get damaged if you do - the whole batch will.
Therefore, I hope that at our batch's farewell, I'm going to count our batch and see at least 16 people. And I really do hope every one of you are going to be in that crowd I count.
I love you, batch '13 <3
Labels: farewell, our future
salubrious
breaking the MUSIC.
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