I
guess it is quite true that life begins after college and works in a mysterious
way afterwards. As it is for me, a lot more interesting things have been
happening ever since. You know, like you got your first job, earning your own
money, paying for your expenses, taking care of yourself. It is like having the
power, the authority, and the full control over your own life. For some other,
it is perhaps way more than that. And surely life can give you surprises.
As
life after college continued, I had never got a legally binding job until the
one in the hotel, The Trans Luxury Hotel. I mean, seriously, I could hardly say
that teaching only four times a week was a real job. Although I have to say
that teaching is an interesting job, if not the most profit-making. But that is
not really why I’m writing this post today. I’d like to just share that with
adulthood, come fun, scary things.
Getting
back to my first job in the hotel (which I wasn’t sure what position I applied
for), but I was placed as a telephone operator that they call STAR back then
though. I mean, my most favorite newspaper I applied to, turned down my
application as a journalist at the most heartbreaking way (or not). I have to
be honest I was a bit of an opportunist who would trade idealism for the
regular buck wired monthly into my account at that time. And I should say I wasn’t so proud of it. An
English Literature graduate whose dream was to become an editor or a lecturer
got stranded in hospitality industry that he knew nothing about. And there was this slight thought in the back
of my head that screamed like a dumb telling I had shut the door to my ideal
career path and headed toward the very wrong direction (to my very least
understanding). So much for the power and authority over my own life!
It
has been around two years now. Being with her is the happiest moment. It’s the feeling of being entrusted with a confidence to overcome
whatever life throws, an assurance that you’ll get through, you know. I love it
when she’s talking funny, when she’s laughing, when she’s being serious, when
she’s walking down the lobby of the hotel with her uniform, when she’s mad
(although sometimes she can be pretty scary). I love it that we go to places
together that she’s a great company. Time flies when she’s around.
So
after all, as I said, life offers you so many unexpected, interesting (even
amazing) things to live through that come far out of the plan. Had I got the
job I thought to be the most ideal, I would have never met and known her the
way I met and knew her now. Sometimes the egotistical feeling of being powerful
over your very own life can be a misleading thought. Sometimes, your grand
design for life is not really the only way that can take you to happiness. Life
works in a mysterious way, and if you are brave enough to be in it, you will
uncover the best out of it.
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