put your hands in the air

can you believe how fast time flies? i woke up on a monday and now i'm hours away from clocking the weekend. every thing's been a frenzy of sorts what with the events last week, the week before and this. my last consciousness would have to be posing for a picture with nikki gil and snubbing luis manzano [who i really, really hearts] in the process. grah. i promise i'd jump and take the next photo opp with him. if i get the chance.

last week i was at the first ever agency idol where all ad agencies had representatives who'd wow the crowd with their singing prowess. there were more what?'s than wows, actually. that was a media gathering and i was there but i'm not on the media's side. for a masscomm junkie, that would seem like a sad state, seeing things from the outside. and for a minute i rethought my career choice. at the end of the day i had the assurance that i'm right exactly where i should be. i may not know the full extent of the consequences of my previous choices but i'm glad that i know i'm in good hands. when i was in school, i'd imagine that i'd someday be in a creative environment- writing, producing, shooting, presenting award-winning ideas! i still want that. and i can still do that. just not yet. i have still a lot to learn. meh, who's in a hurry?

i lament to my friends and tell them that my professional life turned out to be a challenge of this subject i aced in school. it's not even my major, mind you. it seemed fun in school but i didn't imagine i'd be doing it after that. ah well. when life gives you lemons, i guess.

i love counting my blessings and i see no point in joining the band wagon of woe-is-me's, i-can-do-a-lot-better-than-this's and im-more-talented-than-you's. because wherever i am, i can do great things. i may not be where i think i should be but who says there's no room for improvement, right?

the real world will always be what it is. it helps a lot when you have an eternal perspective on so you won't dwell on things too much. this, too shall pass. good things, hardships, and material wealth don't last long. so keep investing on things that really matter... in the long run, ultimately.

hanging around with grown ups changes a lot of the angst-ridden perspectives i used to harbor. i have it easier than they did in their time. sure, contexts have evolved since then, but what fifty-plus-year old didn't go through being twenny two first? i consider a lot of older people successful. some have gone from rags to riches, others have started and kept a happy home while some are evidently happy and content with the life they lead now. and when i ask them what they were doing when they were my age, i'm amazed to know that they were far from where they are now. and when they think about it, they all chalk it up to the God-factor. where will we be without Him?

it's all good. praise God from whom all blessings flow. x)