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It may be a cliche: friends, real ones are the ones who stay by your side when everything turns dim and when almost everyone deserts you. It is a cliche, yes, but it is also indeed true. And I thank God, I got real friends who enlightened me these past weeks when I felt like a garbage dumped nowhere.
I was feeling depressed and stupid. I was getting disoriented and feeling distorted. I was trying to put a happy face so that my family, colleagues and my students would not notice. But there they were; they could read me like a sonnet. They could tell by simply looking at me that I was keeping/carrying something inside.
“Never let anyone hurt you, for no one has the right to hurt one beautiful person like you.”
And she must be right! My very dearest friend, Ma. Jovy P. Legaspi, was right.
And what deeply right, too, was SHE and Jose S. Custodio could always make feel loved and understood.
We were in a planning committee meeting yesterday for our upcoming Division Schools Press Conference, and we did discuss, plan and finish our tasks for the day.
After the day-long meeting, I sat with Ma’m Jovs and Sir Joey. Like a child, I cringed close to seek and draw strength and enlightenment. And I was never turned down, neither was mocked, nor blamed.
Their presence was so endearing. Their wisdom was uplifting. Their acceptance and understanding of me were so comforting.
Their seeing the beauty of a person in me, their acceptance of the greatness and the very humane in me, and their affirmation that they would be my friends no matter what I become made me reassess that the reason for feeling down and devastated for the past week was hollow and pointless. I DO HAVE A LOT MORE SPECIAL AND IMPORTANT REASONS (AND SPECIAL PERSONS) TO BE JOYOUS, THANKFUL AND BE MORE BLESSED.
Making me realize how fortunate I have always been for having friends like them was and always be a blessing.
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