YEARS OF UPS AND DOWNS

Experience is a real teacher. It gives us lessons and teaches us something such as how to improve our skills, how to improve  our personality as a whole and etc.

You have learned that I failed twice in the Bar examinations. Sometimes I thought it is a bullshit life! But I am wrong. I become stronger from all those disappointments. Let me tell you my failures and all those foolish but interesting experiences.

After the 2013 bar examination, I started a new year by finding a job. It is normal as you know that there are employers who will reject your application. Worst, you prepared a lot but you failed. However, after three days of unceasing hunting a job, I got one. Patience is really a virtue. You will just try, try until you succeed.

       Three months after, a big news hit me. I failed in the bar examination that I took last 2013. I felt humiliated by too many people who trusted me that I will become a lawyer. I grieved by what had happened. However three hours after I was informed that I failed, a huge fire burned a lot of houses, as in many houses. It became a big news throughout the city of Cebu. When I passed by the exact location of the blaze, my heart bled as I saw the faces of people whose houses were gone. I thought I was alone grieving with what had happened to me after the negative result of the bar exam. But in the other scenario, there were people whose houses became ashes. In my mind, I was relieved. Life must go on even if we stumbled! Stand Up! It is not you alone! There are still people who experienced more than what you have experienced. You survive but others do not. Be happy! For my part, what I did for that time, I went to a comedy bar with friends. I laughed and laughed and laughed with them. We had some reasons to laugh. So if you have problems, find time to seek for your laughter. You have the right to laugh! Do not be anxious. Believe that there are solutions with what you have faced right now.  Failing in a bar examination gives me a chance to top it. So, laugh and rest well. You have the other days ahead!

Early in the morning after my sadness, the owner of the company where I worked met me and begged me to become an HR Head of his company. I was shocked and to my mind I thank the Lord for this.

See, there are still a lot of opportunities that will come after the pain. As the song goes, “there’s a rainbow always after the rain”. New opportunities germinate. You just have to be faithful. Don’t be worried of the worst scenarios in life. If you decided to commit suicide, I will advise you not to do it. Yes, it is not a crime but it is a sin in the eyes of God. God never designs your life always a rocky or a teary one. Pain is always there to refresh you but not to harm you. Make the pains as a sharpener of your life. Pains will sharpen you! Just allow yourself to be sharpened by God! Don’t lose hope, sharpened it brothers and sisters!

In my case, after the request of my boss I decline it because I have to focus the review for the 2014 Bar examination. But I am still happy that the owner of the company considers my capacity.

Then, October came, It is a bar examination month again. During the examination, I received a report that the person who spent a million of money for my law school had undergone a major surgery. I consider him as my second father because he is the brother of my father who is ready to help my family. During my second Sunday of the examination, he was diagnosed for a stage four cancer. I felt sad, broke and hurt. I finished the bar examination with a crushed heart.  After the exam, I spent time with him, took care of him and accompanied him in the hospital. My plans ceased to be accomplished. But I believe there is something that God in stored for me. I feel happy because I served him.

That year reminds me of happiness. We still have the right to smile on top of the problems we experience. You also have years of ups and downs. Don’t give up! Just be patient my friend, be strong and let God controls the years of our LIVES!