Longing for the Shore I Left Behind

Today, as I pack my bags and prepare to join a new college, my heart feels heavy. I smile, talk to everyone, and try to stay cheerful, but deep inside, I’m already missing my own place, the campus I loved, the people I laughed with, and the small, familiar corners that felt like home. It’s strange how we get attached to things we didn’t even notice before.

Reading Alfred Lord Tennyson’s “Break, Break, Break” made me pause. His lines,

 “But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still!”
hit me hard. Though he wrote it out of deep personal loss, I see my story in those words. I’m not grieving a person, but a phase of life that’s ending. I know I’ll step into new classrooms and meet new colleagues, but I can’t stop my heart from aching for the old ones.

I remember the tea breaks, staff room jokes, the students who brought me both joy and challenges. I remember evenings when I’d walk alone on the corridor, just thinking. All of it is now a memory.

But I won’t stay stuck in the past. Like Tennyson, I choose to face the sea, strong and constant, and move ahead. Change is not the end, it’s a continuation. The sea breaks on the shore endlessly, but it also brings new waves, new stories.

I carry my memories with love not regret. A part of me stays there, in the college I left. But a bigger part is ready for the new waves, the new challenges, and the new life ahead.

And that’s how I grow by longing, moving, and living.

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