New Chapter

The day i finish my bachelor of engineering is finally here! My waiting is over. My persistence has been paid off. My new chapter of life has begun.

As I think of this, it became very interesting for me, that our lives are actually divided into chapters. Isn't it true? When you started school the very first time, you left your life chapter of playing all the time at home, and started to enter into a new life chapter of getting to know new friends. You learned new things. Playing at the playground, started to be given homework. Learned to write, to read, to draw.

When you finished kindergarten, you started a new life chapter of going to primary school. You were getting to know new friends as well. Then you learned another new things. You learned to study 5-6 hours at school, learned substraction, multiplication, division. Had your first exam. Had your first crush on your seniors, or the boy sitting beside you.

Finishing your chapter on primary school, you moved on into the next chapter of your life, high school. Another new friends. Another new things to learn. You learned to spend most of your days in school. You learned derivation, integral, sine-cosine (haha!). You learned to fall in love, learned how to understand people, learned to be disappointed sometimes, to be rejected sometimes.

And all those had to finish as well, because you needed to move on into next chapter of your life. University. Another bigger groups of friends. Another bigger new things to learn. You learned about responsibility. You learned about commitment. You learned about time management. You learned about building relationships and networks, about looking for opportunities. You learned about having a plan for your future. You learned about dealing with difficult people. Various and many of them. You learned about self-actualization, and sometimes you learn about yourself here.

And after that, you need to move on again. Because another new chapter of life must begin. A great book is the one that you can read chapter after chapter without losing the excitement. Every new chapter is getting more and more complex than the previous one, but surely there will be more and more new things that are worth reading. And so is our lives. Everytime, it becomes more and more complex, there are times it become tougher. But surely there will be more and more new things that are worth learning. Everytime we become richer on the inside than before, and everytime we become more complete.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi