Why you should follow what the shirt say: Never Give Up
After. Almost. 10.Months.
By merely reading the title whoever read my first ever column that was published on our Magazine issue last academic year this should be an easy task for you to know.
I’m done. This time it is for real.
Tracing back, I was diagnosed back then of having the final stage, I guess, of having two primary complexes on the early stage of my life which is TB. Well, I won’t brag here about anything I’ve been through (who’s interested anyway. LOL) but let me share some thoughts I’ve learned while battling something unseen yet may attack you in many ways.
As John Green wrote on his book TFIOS, “Depression is the side effect of dying”. Mostly true for every person like me with the ailment which may cause to death, but what really hit us hard in the face is not the fact that we may die on any moment, because what really depressing is we can’t do things we really want, yes whoever you are reading this, those made-like boundaries of what we should do that reprimand us on making what can we really do are a hard nut to crack.
By merely staying awake in the middle of night when you want to read some novels would be considered a sin after the first several months of my diagnosis, by not being able to breathe because something is clogging your used to be usual breathing pattern, by not just taking your too-much-dosage-my-body-can-take meds first thing in the morning could lead to a restless feeling all over a day that makes you feel sick when you can’t even stand and go in your class, or also by taking the said drugs could lead you to an agitate feeling that makes your world, or only on my case, spin.
I’m become restless to fight, I just follow the current and let them tell me what to do.
But what one thing I’ve learned was there’s always a time to bounce back, to do something you really want, to be selfish on simple moments, and to feel you’re 100% healthy despite what ailment is inside you. The most appropriate time to bounce back, I think, is now.
For all those people that really care, for those people that from time to time tell me those things I should do, for those people that let me do things I really want despite of imaginary limitations that accompanied my ailment, for those people that really believe I could be back, and for those people that serve as primary reason why I should be back, this is all for you.
From the bottom of my now-cleared (finally, I could say this. Haha) lungs and heart, I really do appreciate all those things you’ve done since day one, for all the texts and messages, for all the reminders that I should take my meds, and for everything and anything, Thank you.
I know that words won’t be enough to express such gratitude. But let me tell one last thing: I’ll be back, for once and for all.
If you finish this until this line, you’re an amazing person, thank you. *salute*


