The True Measure of Success

I woke up today with a perked up mood. It’s because I received a text message from someone in the high ranks. This is about my application for a good position in some institution. I’ve been starting to make queries for this a couple of months after I passed the licensure exams. Having passed the NLE is such an ephemeral bliss. The moment I saw my name on the roster of passers, I felt rapture but that was it for it was followed by what I so-called series of unfortunate events. I did my best in so many job exams and interviews in order to pave my way towards my desired position. However, none of it was a success or is it just a blessing in disguise? No one knows for sure and it’s for me to unravel yet.

I have so many realizations right after becoming a licensed nurse and now having to fend for myself. It was a very rough adjustment period. It’s a hard trek. Being fresh from the four corners of the classroom, I find it arduous to adjust with how things in the real life are. This is way too different from how life of a student is, just a routine of being always present in school, doing good in exams and quizzes, burning the midnight candle and the cycle just ends on your graduation today which I believe, for me, is already the cup of success that would quench all my longing yet this just the very beginning of it all. This is life! Life seems not an easy pursuit at all. Circumstances don’t take place just like in the classroom wherein if you just piously study all your lessons, you can achieve what you want, good grades and high recognition. We are now in another graduation season. Graduates all beam with their smiles and hopeful of a better and brighter future. But, with how things seem to be right now, with all the unrest and cataclysms going on, are we still entitled of a better tomorrow? If you look at things that way, you will just wallow in depression because there seems to be a no way out of all these crises. Everything seemed morbid and there’s no way to run but instead stay put on where you are and cling on for some divine providence. There’s no other way but HIM.

I must say that student life wasn’t at all that easy for me. It seemed I am always in a tight competition. Everyone is a rival. I even wonder why students are so hungry for high academic standing and recognition. This is what I’ve realized you cannot bring your Latin award with you when you get in to the real game of life. People will not really recognize you for your scholarly achievements. You will not be riveting in your name SUMMA CUM LAUDE or whatever meritus you have. How we play fair in our student life is not yet the true measure of success. You can not utterly say that a dull student has no better future to behold. Life can play hard tricks on us and we need to compose ourselves in order to be ready for that. Life is a game and the outcome lies on how we play it.