“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Changes

What we all second years are going through right now is a series of radical changes that are part of our lives. After all, life is all about that, changes. Evolving, transforming, becoming someone better or someone worse. What is happening to our community is not yet defined, but it cannot be argued that it is not different.
Since we are small we go through a lot of phases, and MUWCI in the first year and the second year are two completely different phases. First you are here to learn and to fit in, and then you are here, to teach, learn and adjust to changes.
This at first sight is not much of a philosophical topic, but we can perceive it from a different light and look at this situation as a change of our reality. The reality that was MUWCI for us, changed completely to a new reality, one that one’s mind, one’s emotions, and oneself is not used to.

I’d like to think that this is the last level that we are going to play in the game of life, however it is actually one of the first ones and, I dare say, one of the most difficult ones as well. I feel empty, and what MUWCI meant for me, has changed completely to another definition, and what I was, before MUWCI and before coming back as a second year, shows a lot how this place and how the interaction with different people, helps to builds one self and identity. How we are not one person always, and how our identity is constantly changing, but with our essence remaining. In my case for example, now I look back at who I used to be, and I prefer who I am now, I'm a completely new person, with a different mentality. This place shapes each one of us a lot. And now being a second year, gives me a lot more of responsibilities, because what I am, how I act, and what I am becoming, is not only going to affect me, but it is also going to take a big part on what the first years around me are going to become. The person shaped in these two years would be the person that is going to go out to the real world, and the only thing that I can do is try to always keep the good things that I learn throughout this experience.

So if we are having such a hard time getting use to these changes, how is it going to be when we go out to the real world?