It's been a while since I wrote my note in facebook. So hear this guys and I hope you'll love it! and never mind the grammar.
Just today I watched a movie about graduation, while watching I remembered the 14th of May 2010. I slept through the commencement speech at my graduation. And I wasn'nt the only one. All we wanted was to hear our names called so we could finally toss our caps into the air and down something with any percentage of alcohol as our reward for enduring four years of educational tyranny. We were now self-ordained adults and finally free to tell our parents that as soon as we were handed our diplomas, their almost 19 years of dictatorships were now over, that from now on, we were calling the shots. We would stay up and out as long as we wanted, we would go wherever we felt like because we had passed enough test to prove our intelligence (or maybe not! lol) and finally earned the right to step into the abyss we were claiming as our future. WE ALL HAD PLANS! such as being a professor in a University, researcher, historiographer or even a famous star. My dream is to save the world if I remember it correctly. I didn't quite know how, but I'd deal with the small details when they came up.
During my college days, I enjoyed every moment with my friends and professors. Everymorning I wake up, take a shower, and eat breakfast and after that, go to school and listen to our professors lecture. After class, chat a bit, stay in the PUP-SMK office, read some books and wait for Sir Mcdonald's class to finish and go home. Everything was almost perfect. At home, I'll eat dinner, watch TV and turn on my computer for "facebooking" ( I invented this word). ahhhhhh life was so sweet back then.
After our graduation, everything change. There is no guarantee for anything; no plans, no direction, no money and no job. My parents told me that I need to rest for a while and after a month or two I can look for a job and start earning money. But I can't! I'm not like the other college graduates that can stay around and be a bum for a while. I want a job ASAP!-- and I did! I was so happy that words was not enough to express how lucky I am to have it.
Good for me, but not so lucky for some of my classmates. They jumped into the sea of uncertainty, knowing nothing about the cruel life. Some were riding the waves of decline in different schools and companies, others have jobs,but not careers. Everything is complicated and harsh. Life in the real world is all about competition and struggle. In order for you to survive, you need to be practical or at least try to think things out. A realy paycheck with a few pesos left over would've been nice. I already knew that life was going to be a struggle or at least a challenge, but I was looking forward to it. That's the reason why I chose to be practical and plan things out. After earning money, go the graduate school and persue my dream to be a professor. That's the path that I want to take! The goal, in my estimation, is to continue to evolve and change and renew our thinking and feelings so that we do not remain static and stuck about anything. It's how I measure my own evolution and as long as what I do pleases me and one hopes will benefit others, then I have added something sacred to the world.
The following are the things that I learned, and the things that you need to do inorder for you to survive:
1. CONFINDENCE: There's nothing worse than watching people walking as if they're afraid of something. It'll make you look uncomfortable with your self. My advice is to walk tall, as if someone's holding your head, chest and shoulders by separate strings or, more simply: walk like you're royalty or in runway. Even if you don't have much confidence, fake it! After a while you'll get so accustomed to faking it that you won't even realize when your confidence becomes real and rightfully so.
2. DON'T LISTEN TO YOUR PARENTS: Of course they mean well, but you can't live out their dreams, you have to find it on your own. It's your turn to live your life.
3. LEARN NEW THINGS: After graduation, better to explore and learn new things. Whatever you choose to do, give it everything you've got and don't do all at the same time. Give yourself a time to learn. Remember that a mediocre effort will get you mediocre results.
4. KNOW THAT THE WORLD DOES NOT REVOLVE AROUND YOU: Take other people's feeling into account. You are not the only one who has them. Caring about someone else's misfortune and putting yourself in another person's shoes will allow you to be less judgemental and not so supercritical of others.
5. PARTY HARD AND WORK HARD: Life is not always about hard work, hard work, hard work. You have to learn to parent yourself and know when to hang and when to take a rain check. After working and if you receive your paycheck, try to give yourself a price. But learn how to say no to your friends and to yourself.
