05/06/2026
Mahadlok ba ka mo sulod kay basin classmate mo sa imong ex?
Back to schoolโฆ pero siya? back to ex. New school year, but you're still a backburner.
While others are writing brand new stories, youโre still stuck replaying old memories. Everybodyโs like โnew year, new me,โ youโre like โwhat if it was meant to be?โ
Still hoping for a line, a sign, a chance, even if it was just a short-lived glance.
But school is calling, life is moving ahead, while youโre still replaying the words that hurt and the things left unsaid.
New classrooms, new lessons, new opportunities ahead, yet some thoughts still linger quietly in your head.
However, this school year is also a reminder
that growth does not always come from forgetting, but from learning to move forward despite what once held you back.
So hereโs to new beginnings, new goals, and new focus. To showing up even when the mind is heavy, and choosing to continue even when the heart is not fully ready.
And maybe this time, you donโt just go back to school, you go back to yourself.
To the version of you that laughs a little louder, dreams a little bigger, and finally learns that not every โwhat ifโ deserves a second chance.
Because some chapters are meant to be remembered, not relived.
And some people are meant to be lessons, not destinations.
So as the bell rings and new pages begin, you donโt just turn themโฆ
you write them.
Back to schoolโstarting again, slowly but surely.๐
Caption | Alexis Emmanuel Monsanto, Lemuel G. Segovia, Stephanie S. Pelegrin
Illustration | Alexis Emmanuel Monsanto
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