Smoke and Mirrors...

Well, well... I haven't been updating this blog for quite some time now.

A lot of things happened in the meantime. I've officially graduated, for one. Had my commencement ceremony a couple of days ago; and thankfully, it was quite short. :P

Other than that, I've officially been unemployed for roughly 4 months now, give or take a few weeks... And a lot of my friends have gone on to their exchange programs in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Holland, Sweden and various other European countries. Going to all the places that I've always wanted to go to. Oh, well.... hopefully one day.... :)

I have hardly anything to do nowadays, other than wait for calls for interviews and to send out more resumes. Catch up with friends every now and then, and so on and so forth.

It's funny how on graduation day, everyone shakes hands, hugs each other, and promises to keep in touch. Although deep down inside, we all know that we won't keep in touch with most of them. Maybe hearing through the grapevine a few years down the road:

"Oh, by the way, did you hear? so-and-so married what's-his-name."

"Oh, I guess you haven't heard the news. That-guy-who-always-sits-on-the-2nd-row-in-that-professor-dude's-class passed away a couple of months ago."

And at least half the time you wouldn't even remember who they're talking about, and you have to pretend that you do.

Kinda pathetic don't you think?

My friends who are still studying keep on telling me that they wished they'd already graduated. And I always tell them the same thing: "Hey, kid, the grass is always greener on the other side. I wish I was still in school."

And I guess that's really the point, isn't it? We're never happy with what we've got, and so we look to everyone else and we think that we like what we see. Believe me: it's all smoke and mirrors, my friends...

Just smoke and mirrors.