What About Now

We just had our practicum orientation yesterday, and it’s as if it’s the department’s way of saying to us that we’ll be off La Salle soon, provided that we pass our thesis proposal of course, because that’s our ‘ticket’ to the practicum program.

Indeed things are getting serious already. We’ll be finding prospective companies/institutions/resources for practicum and we’re doing thesis with real organizations. We’re about to face the ‘real world’ out there. But are we ready? The working ones keep on saying that the real world is really different from a school setting, way different. And the possibilities are not quantifiable and predictable. Meaning, if we’re already having a hard time now in school, we should expect more difficulties outside. For ‘now’ is only sort of a preparation for ‘tomorrow’.

I’m happy ‘cause school’s almost over for us, but I’m also sad that it is. I know this is inevitable. I just hope that we’ll be able to prepare ourselves more and develop the right attitude and skills that will equip us and get us going in the real world. After all, when we’re already out there, we’ll only have ‘us’ to back ourselves up.

Open Your Eyes

I actually don’t have any idea what to blog about, and so as I was thinking about a probable topic, I encountered this line from The Little Prince.

“What is essential is invisible to the eye.”

We often say that life’s not fair. And it's rare for a day to pass by without us complaining such as why is it raining? Why is it so hot today? Why am I given this? Why am I made to do that? Why did I forget? Why??

We’re not happy because we don’t always get what we want, and things don’t always go the way we want them to. Not thinking that if it is the other way around, say our desires and wants keep on coming and taking place then everything would be so predictable, and life wouldn’t be worth living anymore.

However, we shouldn’t let this stop us from being happy. We can be happy and that’s for sure. If only we learn to appreciate what life brings. Indeed, life doesn’t come cheap, but it comes with lots of good things to be happy about too. We just need to open our eyes and really see.

Changes

Looking back, I can still remember how I’ve lived a carefree life. During our frosh days, all we cared about was how we’re spending our three-hour-U-breaks that we’ve had weekly; reflection papers for each film we watched; and some readings we were tasked to read. Then time passed by, we were already taking up our major subjects and things started to change. Our subjects became more serious and apparently more difficult, our professors seemed to have expected more from us, and suddenly, I felt that I had to grow up.

And now that we’ve already been used to the OrgComm life—with all the major subjects and other ‘exclusively-OrgComm matters’, we’re bound to face change again. ‘Coz things are starting to be different now, we’re not just studying and fulfilling our requirements for some major class, we’re already working on our thesis and we’ll soon be having our practicum, which only reminds me that the end is nearing—college is almost over.

Indeed, so much has changed; things just keep on changing; and a lot will still change. And I know I need to learn to deal with it for it’s the only thing that’s constant in this world.

More Than a Woman

Whenever asked about how is it to be a woman, the first thought that usually comes to mind is that women are perceived to be less than men. It’s a socially acceptable notion that people no longer question, simply because however one tries, it still remains unchangeable.

As time passes by, more and more women—and even men, try to change this notion. There are already lots of successful women that had already proved this notion wrong. Positive changes occurred such as that there are more opportunities for women now; women often receive fair treatment now; and the like. However, this negative notion about women can’t seem to be completely eradicated perhaps because it’s somehow part of our culture already.

But then, I guess the current state of how society perceives women is a lot better than how it was before. I’ve always thought that I’m a bit of a feminist and I don’t think I can live that life where women are seen as the inferior gender. Its not that I’m all negative about what men can do, it’s just that I believe in the potential of “women-kind”; that it’s more than what society expects of a woman.