Footsteps Erased...


Things are always changing around us. Childhood friends moving away. Family members passing on. Close friends migrating to other countries...

So many things can change ins such a short time. Most of them happen under our noses without us realizing till one, suddenly, you notice the difference.

Recently, I've been noticing more and more of these changes around me. Could it be development? Does it mean improvement? All i know is, many things that had been a part of my life growing up are slowly disappearing. That cherry tree in our neighbourhood, which my buddies and I used to build our, so-called, "tree-house" in is gone. The memories of us hammering away in the hot Sunday afternoons is now a pile of grass. Even those buddies of mine had moved out of the neighbourhood.

Even the system of the High School i used to go to had been changed. For the better? Maybe. But it pains me to see the things that i have come to cherish change so much over such a short time. The association that i was part of, that changed me from that quiet, shy kid into the out-going person i am now was gone. It hurts...... they've murdered it..... So much has changed since the last time i was there.

It hurts when people, who you know, who you love or learnt to love, who you didn't know you loved, pass on. It hurts even more when you've wronged them and didn't get a chance to apologize to them. The guilt never ends...

Sometimes we despise change. Yet, there's nothing we can do, but learn to live with it. Hoping things Do, indeed, take a turn for the better.