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Thank You, RECSAM

Goodbye is not an end; it is the beginning of a new chapter. Goodbye,perhaps, is the most difficult word to say but somehow it is our ticket to another beginning. Painful it is to leave good memories behind and the wonderful people we have shared those moments with yet it is also the means to which goodbye becomes meaningful.

My dear friends, I would like to thank you for the amazing two years I have been with SEAMEO RECSAM. Definitely my life would never be the same afterwards. Life has to move on. Life has to manifest itself in who we are and what we become after all this.

Every moment with you is a moment treasured in my heart. The two years I have been with you seems like a wink in eternity yet it is a most precious gem in my chest of memories.

I have been a different person before RECSAM and I am a better person after. There are names to remember and forget. There are memories to cherish. There are faces and places. And whatever becomes of me, no matter what with my life, I will always be remembered as a Math Specialist in SEAMEO RECSAM.

Goodbye is such a sweet sorrow. And within my heart is an ocean of memories flashing before me. When the day comes that I need to look back at all the things I do in my life, my years in SEAMEO RECSAM will definitely be one among the best.

Thank you so much for the friendship. Life becomes better because of the friends we make. And when the time comes that our paths would cross again, be it soon or otherwise, the friendship will always remain as what it is now.


Please don't stop remembering. It is in remembering friends that life becomes meaningful.

Jerome
jeromechavez@yahoo.com
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