Unspoken

Safe Haven

I freaking miss school. I miss it so much, it feels like a part of me has been taken away, my heart feels empty knowing that I don't have school to go back to, and it hurts to use the past tense while talking about the place that taught me how to talk in the first place, that taught me what it meant to be a lady, the power I held, the potential I have. 

It gave me a lot of things; it gave me courage and taught me self-esteem. It didn't just furnish me with knowledge within books but a lot more. It taught me how to live and most of all it gave me the people I'll never forget and will cherish forever, people whom I think of as family, it gave me teachers who acted as my mothers, it gave me friends who were more like sisters, and most of all it gave me a home. It was, is and will always be my safe haven, if ever I feel in doubt or am scared and have no other place to go to, I know that school will always be the place I'll run to, 'cause the people there aren't only teachers appointed to teach us to make a living, but they are the pillars of our family, they cared for us, looked after us and have been our well wishers since the day we entered those red walls.

Never would I have imagined the bond that has formed, the love and laughter and tears that remain within those red walls, the memories and moments of joy and each and every second in that godly place.

I may complain at times, but oh for God's sake, who doesn't? At the end of the day, I'm going to miss school. I truly feel incomplete without it, and tears are brought to my eyes when I have to say goodbye to it, because it's not just a couple of buildings, it's an emotion. 

The juniors have showered all of us with love, our seniors gave us advice worth remembering for a lifetime and our teachers gave us the motherly love even when we were away from home. I don't care what people say about my school, because I know that it's always and I mean ALWAYS going to be the best place to go to, my escape from reality, my SAFE HAVEN.