Live your life the way you want it!
by Ardielei Jessicca Lopez
A man’s life has full of mysteries. You can never tell what’s going to happen next. So the thing is, you should live every moment and day awarded to you by our Almighty God. Try to enjoy everything that you have and thank Him for all of that. Live your life to the fullest, because you’ll never know, you won’t be able to do again the things that you love.
An inspiring thought coming from a 3rd year Broadcast Communication student studying at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. Monique Andrea Bagadiong believes that you shouldn’t think much about the future, because what matters most is your present life. She’s an 18 year old teenager residing at Las Piñas City. It’s quite amazing that she’s not the typical type of person who have a certain “Oh, This is what I want when I grow up.” She thinks that it’s not very concrete to say those. She believes in the reality that most people always had a change of heart whenever setting goals in life.
She followed her own will of choosing her career path, being a communicator. For the reason that she thinks, this is the most rational choice for her. She’s not like those students whose decision making ability is affected by what their parents want for them. Her parents allow her to choose what she really wants to do. Because they know it’s not them who’s going to surpass all the tests, it’s Monique. Like other people, she wants to have a typical office job in relation to what she had finished. But she know for a fact that our country is facing a serious crisis when it comes to giving appropriate jobs for the degree most of the fresh graduates had finished, so she’s striving hard to be able to attain that goal. She then emphasizes the concept of communication playing a vital role in the world and she wants to improve her skills in being an efficient communicator that’s why she chose Broadcast Communication in PUP. This is where she thinks she’ll get good chances of having a decent job after she graduates.
Life in PUP didn’t come that easy to this girl. Her long day starts with the usual routine like other students. Waking up early to be able to attend her 7:30 am class and she has to travel all the way from Las Piñas to Sta. Mesa. This is the reason why she doesn’t like professors who comes late in their classes. She’s thinking of the effort of the students to come early but because of that kind of behavior it comes to a waste. Those difficulties don’t just end there. She’s also having a hard time dealing with her fellow PUPians. She admits that some of them are nice and of course, some of them are not. Individual differences are her reasons for this which shows her consideration for uniqueness of every person.
With all those things that make her busy, she still finds a way to unwind. Unwinding even for a while is an important thing for us people. That’s why she makes it a point to rest. As simple as an ice cream treat for her will do and a nice long bath then off to her room to watch DVD. Such simple things complete her long and tiring day.
It’s quite strange for her to say that aside from her studies, one of her priorities in life is herself. She wants to make herself happy, because through that way then she would be able to do the same to others. Love yourself before others, which fit that statement. In connection to that, she actually tells that her ability to stay relaxed and her confidence has an edge over her classmates. Because she said that some of them just don’t know how to chill during stressed situations. It’s a good thing that we people know how to be cool especially when we are facing a lot of problems. Being impatient can’t help you solve any problems at all.
Monique knows how hard it is to gain a degree in studying. How much more if it’s multi-degree level? She also knows that those who had finished not just one degree in studying have an edge in the society today. So if ever she was given a chance to take another course, it would be photography according to her. She always wanted to indulge herself with such activity. But she knows that she can barely make money out of it. But for her, photography is just more of a hobby or a passion rather than a job. After she graduates, she still wants to take even just a crash course on photography.
All of those things make her life as simple or as usual as the life of other typical students. But as we all know, every human being is unique. The struggles and the obstacles in Monique’s life serve as spices that make her life colorful. That’s why she wanted to do the things she loves the way she want it to be. You should not let other people affect your goals and your aspirations in life. You should create your own style of living. It may look stereotype on the outside but it matters. So love and live your life the way you want it.
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