A trek amongst the hills

I hope you could spare 10 minutes of your lifetime in reading this, and I hope that at the end of it, it's worth it. Much appreciated.

The choice

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. The time was ticking away. And I looked around to see if someone else was feeling the pain of noticing precious time running away just like I was doing. It was a crowded room; filled with friends, roommates, ex-classmates, parents, friends of parents, school time buddies, girlfriend, her friends; the list …

Closure

I took another shower at six in the evening, put on my best clothes, checked myself out in the mirror for the tenth time, felt sad that there’s not much I could do about how I looked, and finally left the room in a jiffy. The wait for the elevator felt like a really long …