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My School Library Analysis

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The library is the delivery room of birth ideas and philosophy that perpetually exists. It is like a garden bearing fruits of words for students who dedicate their time and knowledge in learning new aspects in life. However, in my school’s library; beyond the aisles of Shakespeare and Jose Rizal, to the left of the unused janitor closet, is an aisle full of lost and found things that is rarely visited by any of the student here, except Epicurus and I.

We never saw each other and our identity is our own, but we speak as if we were best friends since diaper days. Our conversations are unsaid rituals that we do constantly. It started on the middle of the semester, when I was crying a river over my failed grades and unaccomplished achievements that led me running to the back of the library. I was leaning against the lost and found aisle unknown to the other person leaning back at the opposite side. I was ranting to the air and encouraging myself to end my sufferings in the janitor closet when a voice spoke out and said “Death offers mankind a full view of the truth, that’s what Socrates said. But he also said, not life, but good life, is to be chiefly value. So, death is not and will never be the answer to the problems you are acquainted with right now. However, I am here to talk. I am here to listen. I am here to help.”

He startled me …show more content…

Our conservations are full of unsaid emotions towards our life and the people in it; that is why, I feel so secured with him. He does not judge my choices in life and neither do I in his. We are each others’ safe haven; it is kind of strange to have an intimate relationship with someone who is afterall, a stranger because he may be lying about his life or he may be plotting something against me. However, all of my worries fly out every time he says something so philosophical that makes me think throughout the day, and remind me that he is

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