The Reading Barrio Girl

18 April 2017 Payawin, Gubat, Sorsogon, Philippines My late father always said that opportunities only knock once. And if you choose to ignore it, it will never come back again, ever. Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity -- no wonder there is such a term. Last weekend was Easter Sunday and it made me reflect on  a few things. The resurrection of Christ exudes of a general theme along the lines of 'there must be suffering first before true joy is experienced', or something like 'new beginnings' and all that. It made me think of the choices I've made and how my life has turned because of those choices. My own realizations boiled down to one thing: opportunities. Opportunities that came my way that I didn't let pass. I took them all with eyes closed or with faith (whichever you wanna call it) that it was a choice made in pursuit of a life I've wanted, and more importantly, in pursuit of something that I knew would change my life for the better. So whateve...

26 January 2017 Payawin, Gubat, Sorsogon. Philippines A wise man once said, not everyone is given a second chance in life. But if you do, make sure you take your best shot at it. We all had our share of not-so-good times, when things seem to go down south all at once. First your personal life, and then your career and everything else in between. Sure I've had my share of those and I had it real bad. See I had this theory that if your personal life is a mess, your professional life will eventually go down the drain. How else can you function fully at work when you can't even sort out your personal life? It couldn't be more true, at least for me. Eventually things fell down like domino tiles in front of me. Then it was like drowning in a deep dark tunnel of mess. Murphy's law at its finest. When things go wrong, they really go very wrong. Then such a period would last until such time when you can at least come up for thin air and recover enough just to breathe....