Flash Back

Just recently, I reflected on certain things about my life. Let's make a quick recap of the things that happened to my life.

i started elementary in La Huerta Elementary School then we accidentally found this small school, St. Dionysius School. It was situated on a place that you wouldn't normally find a school. The next year, I transferred to this school and eventually completed my primary schooling. After graduating from SDS, I went to Paranaque Science High School, an arena for the best of the bests. Unfortunately I was not strong enough to survive the remaining 3 years. The same year, we needed to reside in Pasig. With no other available choice, I enrolled at VABBC Christian Academy. After two years of stay, I unwillingly transferred to Rizal High School and there I completed my secondary education.

Here comes college life. I was planning to pursue geology, a field that interests me and where I really excelled. After a long argument with my mom, it was finally decided. I will be taking accountancy. I eventually studied at Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Pasig. I took BS Entrepreneurship, a course that I've heard for the first time during the enrollment date. Due to fortuitous events, I could not take accountancy so I settled with entrepreneurship though I was later on offered to shift to accountancy. During my 3rd year in college, I became a working student, not because I have to but because I just like the idea of it.

Looking back at all these things, it seems that none went according to how it was originally planned.

Now I am thinking, "What if I pursued geology?" Where could I be now? Though my mom was correct that it would not be that profitable, I could have attained one of my childhood dream -- becoming a scientist. Never in my childhood did I dream of becoming an accountant nor becoming a businessman. Though business and numbers are in  my blood, science has always been my passion.

Yes, I am good at numbers but my love for numbers was developed because of the computations one has to do to better understand and illustrate scientific concepts.

While writing this article, I realized that for so long, I've been blindly chasing rabbits, bears, horses, and dragons all at the same time but I failed to follow a dream.

Now I have a clearer understanding between the terms "happiness" and "success". You can be successful but not happy and on the other hand you could also be happy but not successful.

Sometimes, realization just come too late. How I wish I knew a scientist or someone who could have fostered my interest in science.