I Discovered Life is a Series of Misteries

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!

But then again, life works in a very mysterious way. I probably have not been heading towards the direction I previously navigated to. But something whose value is way more than just a job and money and power happened in the very place I said I was stranded in. It started out with a joke. Then it continued with the intense texting, talking, we finally had a date. Never crossed my mind that I would ask her to be my only life companion who I‘m profoundly in love with. Taking that job was the best decision I had ever made. 

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.