Ode to My Favorite Trainee

I thought I have known you better ~ all this time, I never knew that the persona that you now exude could ever subsist. I never knew that behind your strong personality is a soul who couldn’t be brave to face the sole reason of all your anxieties. I just realized that like the many, you too had the propensity to be cowardly in weathering the possibilities… that you are joining us ~ we who wear the mask of a fiery warrior yet a feeble slave of our own fears.

There’s no denying of the shrewdness you possess, the character that you own and the personality that is beyond compare. You have shown us the good and bad in you… and we simply loved them all irregardless as to how these attributes shaped you as a person. In your circle of friends, we made you feel that you belong ~ despite our clashes, despite our individuality and despite the many things uncommon to all of us. We valued your significance as a friend ~ the someone who will not stab our backs and the someone who will help us in anchoring the friendship sail, wherever the voyage is.

Now that you are faced with bafflement, the only piece of advice that I could give you is to be the person that we knew you are ~ strong, honest and sincere. I felt privileged that you let me knew your feelings, your anxieties, and your concerns. Now be audacious enough to take the first and most important step!

Do not be mortified of the person that you are for there is no single reason to be such. Do not be fearful of the feeling because it is only a sign of your humanity. Above all, open it ~ I have asked you to try… and trying it does not mean you will deviate from the standards and create havoc in the smooth way of how things are going now. Definitely, that’s not your purpose! What you’ll do is simply a way of getting through with these things. For all you know, a simple Hi is all that it takes. A simple Hello is the start of getting it.

And yes, it can never be as promising as we wanted it to be (at least we’re accepting it), but who cares? In this world where possibilities abound, we should be contented with the simplest of all things… We should be happy with what we hold in one hand. If our other hand would have something, then that is simply our bonus…

Go and be his friend… If it’s all that it could be, then be happy about it… at least you have come out of the darkness ~ at least, the love that you sealed in your silence will no longer haunt you.

Go, my friend… go!!! He may just be waiting…