So you know I'm still alive, still surviving...

I don't have much time these days, as I'm preparing for my last core exam, to be taken this Monday. I thought I'd make a letter of this entry:


Dear Body, Brain, Spirit and Soul,

Thank you for bearing with me through the past 5.5 weeks of torturous studying and hardly a rest in sight, not to mention the past ten months of novel trials. What a weighty finalé to a spectacularly intense year of hard work; shell-shocking experiences (e.g. 1st Snow Belt Winter); emotional troughs; and dramatic changes. Please hang on with me until Monday at 1:30pm (possibly 2pm?) and I promise I will henceforth treat you, honour you, pamper you and indulge you in all the ways you deserve.
I have been somewhat more neglectful than usual this (scholar) year as I have been in a transitional period of life, one in which I had to deal with so many different changes at the same time. You are the reason I've survived this bridge in my life, this cave of uncertainties and frights. I am so grateful for your tolerance and resilience. Please continue to stand by me. I can see the cave's exit, I can almost smell the sunlight peering through, shyly. One more exam...

Love,

~Selina