Adaptation

I know I have been posting a lot about my school life, but I can't help that it's one of the most important things that are revolving around my life right now. High school and everything is not how I imagined it, or maybe is it because I go to a private school (and my school is newly opened, there are only 15 students inside of it... and that includes me) rather than a regular one? I don't know. Is it because I am watching too many TV and let it define what high school really is? Maybe, yes.

I have been eyeing on my friends and how they act, lately. I guess they are stressed out about a new environment that is not always a friendly start. My friends who move out of town and went to study there are not feeling very good with where they are. Some say that they wanna come back; some say they miss us and the way we use to be in the same school and don't want anybody else to be their classmates. I for one, am really heart-broken to hear these kinds of things. I mean, they did get what they wanted... but they aren't so happy with it. I think it's probably because things are still new and unfamiliar to them.

On this week's flag ceremony (that is a kind of tradition that most schools in Indonesia has. We are told to line up with our classmates on a field or somewhere that's wide and do stuff that will increase our "patriotism") Miss Cindy (our headmaster) gave a lecture about something that really made me wanna move my butt. She told us that success, is determined from how far we wanna be from our comfort zones. Yknow when something just makes you feel so comfortable and happy and you don't wanna be away from it? That's your comfort zone. I have one of those. In my case, my "comfort zone" is my cellphone. I don't know... tapping around on it just gives me comfort. When you think thoroughly about it, it's kind of stupid; so yeah, I am going to reduce that thing that's been keeping me away from doing the stuff that really matters.

In my friends' cases, their comfort zones are their pasts, I think. They take too much comfort in what the past was and unfortunately, they find it hard to move on from it. Yes, I know, the past contains many happiness that all of us want to play back, but we know that it's impossible to do right now (well... maybe later a genius will find a way to do it; maybe). And we know that we would all love and deserve a beautiful future that will be the best for us all, and with that, I hope that me and my friends are going to try and risk ourselves away from our comfort zones and greet a whole new world that we are gonna face. (Backing sound: SNSD - Into The New World; lol)

So right now, I guess, like many animals that have still survived the dread of the Earth's changing, we have to adapt. If they can do it, why can't we? If they can grow  legs, grow wings (even if it takes a whole lot of time), I'm sure that we are capable of making ourselves resilient in the changes that are coming towards us.

I know that we are capable of it. =)