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The end of another chapter in my life. But the next chapter is still a blank page, with hints of words yet unwritten, of new adventures still to come.

Perhaps I'm not quite ready to let go of these memories just yet. The past 4 years have been colourful beyond my wildest imagination, full of joy, sorrow, laughter, tears, pleasure, pain, with the corridors and walls of campus bearing silent witness to it all. Scenes of love that has come and gone, of friends found and lost, of joyful reunions and tearful farewells. If the walls could speak, what tales would they tell?

Events of the past week helped ease the transition, helping me maintain and fortify the bridge between my undergraduate years and my future life as a working adult. Perhaps I am quite different from many of my fellow peers, having made a large number of friends and acquaintances from all different levels, thanks to my loyal involvement in orientation activities. It's ironic how gatherings can make one feel so old, yet at the same time, when one is caught in the moment, laughing along at a joke or fondly reminiscing on a shared memory, the age gap is momentarily erased, and one can almost believe that time has hardly passed at all.

Yet other events occurred, which only served to remind me that my time as a crazy undergraduate has passed, that it is now time to shoulder the burdens that come along with being a full-time member of the workforce. Events which signified the end of my NUS days, and those of many of my peers, and symbolised the end of an era, yet at the same time heralding the start of an unknown future.

As we continue to journey on life's long, winding and sometimes torturous paths, may we always hold these memories close to our hearts, and may we never lose that spirit and fire that help bring meaning to life.

Let's dance in style, let's dance for a while
Heaven can wait we're only watching the skies
Hoping for the best but expecting the worst
Are you gonna drop the bomb or not?

Let us die young or let us live forever
We don't have the power but we never say never
Sitting in a sandpit, life is a short trip
The music's for the sad men

Can you imagine when this race is won
Turn our golden faces into the sun
Praising our leaders we're getting in tune
The music's played by the mad men

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

Some are like water, some are like the heat
Some are a melody and some are the beat
Sooner or later they all will be gone
Why don't they stay young

It's so hard to get old without a cause
I don't want to perish like a fading horse
Youth's like diamonds in the sun
And diamonds are forever

So many adventures couldn't happen today
So many songs we forgot to play
So many dreams swinging out of the blue
We let them come true

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever young

Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever, forever and ever
Forever young, I want to be forever young
Do you really want to live forever?
Forever Young

- Forever Young by Alphaville

Labels: Musical Mondays