"Finally... it's time to leave this campus."
Jiangg Ning returned her work badge to the administration office, exchanged a few brief words with a surprised colleague, and said her goodbyes. As she walked outside, stood beneath the faculty building, and gazed up at the main tower of Lanjing University, a wave of emotions washed over her.
She felt it with a deep sense of finality.
From this moment on, she was no longer a professor at Landa University, an educator of young minds. She could no longer enjoy the pride that identity had brought her.
This place, which held years of memories, these sights she was so familiar with she'd seen them a thousand times, were destined to become faded colors in an old photograph. By the time she would unseal these memories to talk about them again, they would feel exceptionally distant.
So distant that she might not even remember she ever had such a profoundly meaningful experience.
