Have you been bungled by lots of responsibilities and can't cope up with everything and you just start screaming within yourself angry, pissed and screwed up not with the people around you but with every situation that hampers you to finish a thing and dumps you on your darn baloney sulky mood that delays or even stops your interest and willingness to get things done as soon as possible?
Just like this:
1. You just came from a training thus, you're tired and wanted to sleep but when you do so and you're at the middle of your dream, your mother wakes you up while your younger sister shouts at you that somebody is looking or calling for you outside the house. What happens? You're disrupted and messed up because of the abrupt shift of the atmosphere from fantasy to reality and going dizzy while hanging over from the insufficient sleeep, you run to the house's main door to face your visitor and later did you know that you're just wearing a boxer shorts without a top.
2. Your brother requested you to encode the TGS of a fast food store on MS Excel since he can't do it himself because of his busy and pressured schedules at work. But since your computer is near the room of your grandmother where her door is slightly opened so you can hear her call whenever she needs you (she has pleurisy and he can hardly voice out what she needs) and that the light you use passes through her room and she can't sleep under that condition, you got to kill your light and struggle to see the data on the TGS form through dim light.
3. You got to use the computer since you have to send an e-mail to a coordinator of your project that you need some financial and intellectual support. However, your younger sister has her assignments to be passed the next morning and you don't have any amount on your pocket to rent from Internet cafes.
4. You are trying to focus on a certain write up without any disruptions but your uncle living beside your house loves to turn the volume louder with his 50s to 70s type of music and even sings along with it plus the television sounds you can't turn off because everyone's watching plus the mosquitos that bite your feet and legs plus the frequent call of your grandma to get her a cup of water or requests for some milk and some biscuit or bread.
5. And when you finished your work on the TGS, your write ups for the publication and blog, your mother's requests and your sisters summary of an editorial, you'd want to dose off seeing the time ticks 1am in the morning but when you turn your freaking head on the kitchen, your eyes go wide discovering the dishes weren't washed yet.
Do these seem mess you up? - whew -
I am not angry nor pissed with the people who made these things happen because they're also human beings - my family is group of homo sapiens with built-in imperfections. What spoils me so much are the situations.
One thing I realized? God gives the toughest test!
I hope, I can overcome these things as part of my daily responsbility here in our house and with my family.
Still, all things work for a purpose.
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Sunday, July 22, 2007
'Biyahe tayo,' take risks and enjoy priceless rewards
Hi everyone. Thank you so much for visiting my blog for the past 2 days. On my way home, I was so excited to see if how was everything here. Though, I didn't have more comments on my latest posts. reading my messages on shoutboxes made me feel even better so I really thank you so much.
As what I've told you in my previous post, I'll be having a training and I just came back from the 2-day training from Iloilo to Bacolod City and it has been a venturous experience for me. Why? It was my very first time to do almost all the jaunts and activities I did and I really thank God for that opportunity.
To think that I coordinated for the event (with support from my fellow y-konek members most especially Jake Mae Valencia of West Negros College and Ramel Jacolbe of Riverside College), I thank God for the chance once again to be pressured, squeezed and harnessed for a good cause, a good advocacy and a very scary do-that-or-I'll-kick-your-ass instances during the preparations and when facilitating everything in the venue and while the training is on progress.
But despite all the risks and mind-stirring challenges, the treasurable moments of accomplisment wrapped everything with joy and fulfillment. Indeed, taking risks to ascertain unknown things for you are all worth it and it surely felt so cool when everytime I discovered something new, I whisper to myself:
"Now I know what"
"Now I know why"
"Now I know how"
I knew it felt complete and it pushes me to want to undergo brand new challenges again.
With heartfelt thanks, everything went good from fetching our trainer, Aldwin Joseph Empaces (Kuya Aldwin as we fondly call him), at the New Iloilo Airport to our training and up to accompanying him to Cebu Pacific Airlines at Bacolod City just this morning.
I personally thank Kuya Aldwin for everything. As I accompany him for 2 days from breakfast to supper and from one place to another, I really learned so much. Lessons from his life - life as a lover, life as a responsible member of the family, life as a teacher, life as an environmentalist and his life as a researcher.
Kuya, if you happen to read this, thank you so much. I would thank many people from the bottom of my heart but to you and also to the staff of the SOARGroup of USC, my heart is bottomless.
On my ride home from Bacolod City just this morning, I saw myself sitting in the PUB, leaning on the window glass and looking at the busy highway as trees, fields, the people, the seas, the sky seemed smiling to a beautiful day, my heart pounding, pondering over the 2 days of various precious experiences, learnings, friendship and realizations...I felt new. I felt so good. I felt different that I came on asking myself, "Is this me? Am I still Quincy?" and just dim my eye with that salty liquid again, grateful to what God did to my existence in just a short time.
One epiphany is the greatest tragedy a person would ever do in his life is not to brace for his supreme effort to get what he purposefully needs and wants.
Indeed, Kuya Aldwin's text message for me was true, "What wears us down the most in life aren't the chances we take but the chances we don't take, the dreams we put aside, the adventures we push away. So whatever it is you're wanting in life, go for it! And always remember that no matter what, trust your heart."
Enough with the sentiments, I would like to give you a glimpse of what we are doing right now.
As partner of the Sociology and Anthropology Research Group (SOARGroup) of University of San Carlos with support from the Internaional Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, the Y-Konek (an youth organization that advocates for adolescent reproductive health) will conduct a survey on the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of ARH issues. The study will cover randomly selected adolescents from first year to third year high school students. This is to establish the baseline data to assist us in developing an information, education and communications program for adolescents.
In view of the activity, we underwent what I was telling you, a training on basic research.
This activity aims to analyze differences in KAP by age, sex and marital status. Besides, it also aims to identify and analyze the determinants of the risky RH behavior and so we could later recommend effective strategies on youth RH campaigns and service delivery.
The kick off of the field work will be sometime this week and if it does happen, I need to go back to Iloilo City to give other Y-konek members a back-up because there are only few young active people who will serve there.
I hope and pray for God's provisions and sustaining grace as I do this tasks in Iloilo at the same time check the researchers in Bacolod City.
I didn't imagine myself that I will be having this kind of responsibility. Indeed, if opportunity comes, you stop it from giving you everything. And with that, I again thank God for honing me back in my 14 years of schooling and for giving me priviledges to have control over small things. Now, he's given me control over somehow big things.
To God be the glory.
As what I've told you in my previous post, I'll be having a training and I just came back from the 2-day training from Iloilo to Bacolod City and it has been a venturous experience for me. Why? It was my very first time to do almost all the jaunts and activities I did and I really thank God for that opportunity.
To think that I coordinated for the event (with support from my fellow y-konek members most especially Jake Mae Valencia of West Negros College and Ramel Jacolbe of Riverside College), I thank God for the chance once again to be pressured, squeezed and harnessed for a good cause, a good advocacy and a very scary do-that-or-I'll-kick-your-ass instances during the preparations and when facilitating everything in the venue and while the training is on progress.
But despite all the risks and mind-stirring challenges, the treasurable moments of accomplisment wrapped everything with joy and fulfillment. Indeed, taking risks to ascertain unknown things for you are all worth it and it surely felt so cool when everytime I discovered something new, I whisper to myself:
"Now I know what"
"Now I know why"
"Now I know how"
I knew it felt complete and it pushes me to want to undergo brand new challenges again.
With heartfelt thanks, everything went good from fetching our trainer, Aldwin Joseph Empaces (Kuya Aldwin as we fondly call him), at the New Iloilo Airport to our training and up to accompanying him to Cebu Pacific Airlines at Bacolod City just this morning.
What wears us down the most in life aren't the chances we take but the chances we don't take, the dreams we put aside, the adventures we push away.
Kuya, if you happen to read this, thank you so much. I would thank many people from the bottom of my heart but to you and also to the staff of the SOARGroup of USC, my heart is bottomless.
On my ride home from Bacolod City just this morning, I saw myself sitting in the PUB, leaning on the window glass and looking at the busy highway as trees, fields, the people, the seas, the sky seemed smiling to a beautiful day, my heart pounding, pondering over the 2 days of various precious experiences, learnings, friendship and realizations...I felt new. I felt so good. I felt different that I came on asking myself, "Is this me? Am I still Quincy?" and just dim my eye with that salty liquid again, grateful to what God did to my existence in just a short time.
One epiphany is the greatest tragedy a person would ever do in his life is not to brace for his supreme effort to get what he purposefully needs and wants.
Indeed, Kuya Aldwin's text message for me was true, "What wears us down the most in life aren't the chances we take but the chances we don't take, the dreams we put aside, the adventures we push away. So whatever it is you're wanting in life, go for it! And always remember that no matter what, trust your heart."
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As partner of the Sociology and Anthropology Research Group (SOARGroup) of University of San Carlos with support from the Internaional Planned Parenthood Foundation of America, the Y-Konek (an youth organization that advocates for adolescent reproductive health) will conduct a survey on the knowledge, attitudes and practices (KAP) of ARH issues. The study will cover randomly selected adolescents from first year to third year high school students. This is to establish the baseline data to assist us in developing an information, education and communications program for adolescents.
In view of the activity, we underwent what I was telling you, a training on basic research.
This activity aims to analyze differences in KAP by age, sex and marital status. Besides, it also aims to identify and analyze the determinants of the risky RH behavior and so we could later recommend effective strategies on youth RH campaigns and service delivery.
The kick off of the field work will be sometime this week and if it does happen, I need to go back to Iloilo City to give other Y-konek members a back-up because there are only few young active people who will serve there.
I hope and pray for God's provisions and sustaining grace as I do this tasks in Iloilo at the same time check the researchers in Bacolod City.
I didn't imagine myself that I will be having this kind of responsibility. Indeed, if opportunity comes, you stop it from giving you everything. And with that, I again thank God for honing me back in my 14 years of schooling and for giving me priviledges to have control over small things. Now, he's given me control over somehow big things.
To God be the glory.
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