Musings (Starting Over Again)

That Guy From High School

by Andrea D. Garzon [February 23, 2012]

A/N: If you know me back in high school, you who this guy is.

There is this guy back in high school who's now studying in a different university whom I really admire not because of his looks or his talents.

He is neither an honor student nor anyone who carries a position in any organization. He's just an ordinary guy out in the corner playing with his guitar, singing lame songs that you might think he's getting insane out of those misplaced lyrics.

But even if he's like that, there's some things that could make him stand out and be somebody else whom you could never expect from someone who has achieved a million academic awards. And when that time happened, you realized that he's much better person than you are.

He had one thing that I couldn't have. One thing that I envy most. Freedom.

Yet, I must say that I think I had it the right way and he had it perfectly using his perfect imperfections.

And all those awards he'd received that kept me thinking highly of him, he remained unassuming and ordinary. Being with the crowd like a plain white shirt.

I wish I could be like the person he is.

But I knew that the person I wish I could be is not the person I should be because this is what God had for me, this kind of life, this kind of person I' am right now and that if I had not become this person I' am right now, perhaps, I wouldn't be able to appreciate the person he is right now...