Dying to be Alive
If there was a moment in my life closest to being a "No Day But Today" moment, it would have been yesterday.
My classmate, in Communication Research 101, Cedrick Tamio, did not wake up yesterday morning. But take note, he wasn't dead. He just fell into a deep sleep, and no amount of shaking, tickling, undue harassment would wake him. He was just...asleep. First thought that entered my mind was, "Rip Van Winkle." Sorry for the triviality of the thought.
I have no idea what happened exactly, his family won't release details yet. Upon hearing the news my hair all stood on one end. Kinilabutan talaga ako. Coupled by the fact that it was October 31st, I mean, hearing that a perfectly healthy individual just doesn't wake up one day is really creepy. Cedrick and I aren't really that close, maybe just a couple of chats during class, when we're bored, but I know him well enough to know that he's a hardworking, dedicated student with a great sense of humor. I remember him as the guy who held the videocam while our class conducted a Focus Group Discussion during class time.
I thought really hard. It was one of the suckiest situations to be in. Not dead, but not necessarily alive either. In limbo. On one level, it struck me hard kasi I tend to fall asleep easily at the most unopportune times. My close friends pretty know this. In almost every class, on the jeep, in the AS lobby, etc. What if I didn't wake up while lined up outside the Journalism department? Would everyone else just overtake me, like I'm one person less from the end of the line? Would anyone even recognize me and bother to wake me up? Haha.
But more importantly, Cedrick made me think about all the stuff I'm dying to tell people, but out of sheer cowardice (for lack of a better term) I haven't. Or all the stuff I keep on promising myself I'd do, but keep on postponing. Like I said, it was a true "No day but today" moment. Maybe I should really start living, for once.
BTW, Cedrick woke up a little before 11 p.m. last night. He'll still undergo some more tests before his discharge though.
Funny, how it took someone's near-death experience on Halloween for me to realize all this. Just goes to show that there's still hope for the rest of us, I guess.
My classmate, in Communication Research 101, Cedrick Tamio, did not wake up yesterday morning. But take note, he wasn't dead. He just fell into a deep sleep, and no amount of shaking, tickling, undue harassment would wake him. He was just...asleep. First thought that entered my mind was, "Rip Van Winkle." Sorry for the triviality of the thought.
I have no idea what happened exactly, his family won't release details yet. Upon hearing the news my hair all stood on one end. Kinilabutan talaga ako. Coupled by the fact that it was October 31st, I mean, hearing that a perfectly healthy individual just doesn't wake up one day is really creepy. Cedrick and I aren't really that close, maybe just a couple of chats during class, when we're bored, but I know him well enough to know that he's a hardworking, dedicated student with a great sense of humor. I remember him as the guy who held the videocam while our class conducted a Focus Group Discussion during class time.
I thought really hard. It was one of the suckiest situations to be in. Not dead, but not necessarily alive either. In limbo. On one level, it struck me hard kasi I tend to fall asleep easily at the most unopportune times. My close friends pretty know this. In almost every class, on the jeep, in the AS lobby, etc. What if I didn't wake up while lined up outside the Journalism department? Would everyone else just overtake me, like I'm one person less from the end of the line? Would anyone even recognize me and bother to wake me up? Haha.
But more importantly, Cedrick made me think about all the stuff I'm dying to tell people, but out of sheer cowardice (for lack of a better term) I haven't. Or all the stuff I keep on promising myself I'd do, but keep on postponing. Like I said, it was a true "No day but today" moment. Maybe I should really start living, for once.
BTW, Cedrick woke up a little before 11 p.m. last night. He'll still undergo some more tests before his discharge though.
Funny, how it took someone's near-death experience on Halloween for me to realize all this. Just goes to show that there's still hope for the rest of us, I guess.