Where can you find the place where you will fit in best? Who
can say to you that you shall take this path and not the otherwise? How can
this crucial choice affect everyone around you? This is a very tough question
that I will try to talk about somehow. I came across this question AGAIN in my
class today and though I know for a fact what I want to be in my life what
bothers me is that there are some people who are still not in the same
predicament as I am. I’m not trying to boast here or something but what I’m
trying to say is it also affects us in an indirect way when you make a decision
that will place you in a field where you don’t best fit. It is an old issue
about the nursing students that are taking the course because they were forced
to by their parents or lured by the “opportunity” outside the country. As one
of my professors used to say “Sayang yung mga utak na pinilit magnursing. Pwede
sana sila maging magaling na abogado o mambabatas sa talino nila na yan” We can
establish a premise here that there are endless possibilities of what ifs with
these people and how they could have helped our country in a more effective way.
If you happened to watch the movie 3 Idiots (a 2009 Bollywood film) one of
Rancho’s friend was forced by his parents to take Engineering when in fact he
is a TALENTED photographer. He could have use those times that he spend in
engineering school to enhance his photography skills but instead he wasted it
studying something that he is not passionate about. We are all trying to find
our place where we will be a functional member of the society and aiming to be
effective. We should seek what we do best and pursue it. What are we passionate
about and strive for it. Sometimes we are just in the wrong track doing things
that are meaningless and wasting our time doing something we don’t need to do.
This is exactly the problem why here in the Philippines is far from an ideal
society. Though we can never have an ideal society but it doesn’t mean we stop
trying to become one. Here comedians can be politicians, nursing graduates are
in the call centers, political science graduates can teach sociology and other
fields that a lot of wrong people are in it.
I’m aware that we are highly
influenced by the social media culture in our time today where you can see what
everyone is doing with just a click. It is also by this culture that we think
in such a way that we seek what we can get and what we think we deserve. It is
all about us and what we are entitled to have. It made us forget that every
right has a responsibility with it. We are responsible to what our country is
becoming. There is no one to blame but us to what is happening in the
Philippines. So what are we trying to do to contribute to our country? Are we
on the field that we think we can contribute effectively? Of course some would
argue that it is the practicality that they are doing the things they are doing
right now. But is it really the reason or we just don’t have the guts to make a
stand? I’m sure that you don’t want to see the old gray haired you telling to
yourself that you live a life of practicality not making a dent on history.
