Unfair Reality by Carolyn R. Castillo, IV-A

Life is too short to be spent with lots of regrets. We may fail sometimes, but it happens to make us stronger and to face the surprising storms of tomorrow. Live our life as happily as we can because we cannot say how certainly it may end. We love, feel hurt, forgive, and forget. There are times that we enter the world of emptiness, but we just have to think that it’s just part of living in reality.
People come and go. Some would leave and go leaving us without any reasonable explanation. And we cannot really please someone to stay if they really have to go. I know that we get tired becoming hopeful for so long but we must accept the fact that sometimes, something can never be the way we want it. It is we who can completely make our destiny. If we believe that, “Everything happens for a reason”, we will know how meaningful life is. We often expect something but reality doesn’t give us the chance to have it, and then we get hurt. We just have to live life to the fullest without any expectation because no one knows what’s in store for our future. It just comes out unexpectedly and unknowingly.
We cannot survive in our present if we still hold on to the pain of yesterday. We must not refuse to let go of the things that make us sad. We must admit, “No one can bring back the past.” We must start anew now if we don’t want to continue our miserable past. God doesn’t permit trials if we can’t solve them. And remember that life isn’t about being fair; it is about surpassing the unfair reality.

Gone by Jeaneth A. Guttierez, IV-A

This seems like forever to me and as much as I try to erase it, I just can’t. I am here now. I know I hurt you. I am hurting every person around me. I am hurting myself as well! That’s why I hate myself.
My ardent wish to set things right are shadowed with the fact that I’m such a selfish person! That this bad attitude which is beneath in me destroyed this God’s precious gift. I don’t want you to see myself but if dying can please you, then I’m giving up. After all, I have all I can bear and all I can give, but then the bits and pieces of my life have no sense of completion. I have done all I can. That is why no one can judge in what I have done if understanding is far from reality. I have nothing else to give but if I have something here, then it’s not worth it if I am going to bear it for you. There is nothing left for me to do, but say goodbye and so, weep for my own decision. My only regret is having been a good and nice friend and person to you! But it’s in your heart and you will realize that you have become the same person I used to be, then free yourself of losing such a great gift called friendship…