Just before last week, I was too busy couch potato-ing at home for more than a month or so. Save for the times I was “leaf-lifting” through the pages of my chemistry books, reviewers, and previous notes. My daily routine’s as simple as waking up at 8am, taking a bath, pigging out, watching TV, web surfing, studying, and whatnots at home. During those weeks, I used to go out of the house only AT MOST twice a week. Take that very literally, as in I didn’t get to go out of our main door for days. It’s not that I can’t, but I just opted not to. Home’s fine. I only do go out for unavoidable circumstances: 1.) during our “compulsory” exams at the review center once every two weeks, 2.) when I run out of food in the fridge, and 3.) during “emergencies” such as my application for the board exam. For that, I missed looking forward to some things.
During my undergrad years, I used to look forward to a lot of things -- the first day of classes, the LAST day of classes, the upcoming exams (Naks! Looking forward to take the exams? Don’t buy it), the suspension of classes (whether due to bad weather, rallies, unexpected holidays, blah, blah, blah), the time to end each class, the end of the day, the weekends…haaaayyy. But days at home…I seem to look forward to almost nothing at all. Ah, at the very least, I do look forward to little stuff like watching shows I was engrossed in – The Tyra Banks Show, Ambush Makeover, and some local shows. I never had the chance to look forward to the weekends anymore. In fact, I can hardly notice the day of the week or the date of the month!
Unfortunately, and FORTUNATELY, my lazing came to an end on a Monday last week. Opportunityknocked on my door and I whole-heartedly let it in. And I’m rejoicing that at last I’ll be looking forward to some things again! Things like when it’s time to go home after a hard day’s work, the free Ikot ride in school on Tuesdays, my paycheck, and the weekends! Yeehuh! 
