Past, Memories and Future

        “Aramiden yu amin nga mabalinan yu tapno haanak nga matay pangaasi yu. Kayat ko pay nga makapalpas jay anak ko ti nursing. Nurse to met isuna (Please make all you can do to make sure I’m not going to die. I would like to witness my daughter’s graduation. She will become a nurse)”, requested by my father to the nurses at the emergency room when we brought him at the hospital because of the unexpected tragedy that has turned our lives upside down.

       There was my mother crying too hard worrying about the impending death my father could possibly face. I was also there. Tears held back. I had to be strong for my mother. 

        I was at the school busy preparing for election paraphernalia to be used for the student politics campaign. I was then a campus journalist turned student leader who decided to join student politics to let my self grow more. I received a call from my cousin telling about what had happened to my father. I abruptly went to the hospital and directed immediately to the emergency room. 

      That was the most tragic moment in my life, having my father bathed on his own blood and my mother crying too hard. I wanted to break down. But at that time, I decided to be tough and tried to accept what had happened. 

     I just stood beside my mother, silently listening to her as she cried. 

     Almost two years already passed after that tragedy and my family had been slowly recovering and rising again from that turmoil. I am now a nursing graduate. However, I am not a registered nurse yet.

     Having myself left alone, I was able to retrieve this very important memory in my life.  And that memory basically serves as my guide in structuring my future plans. I will not waste the wish my father requested to the nurses during that moment - to ensure he will going to live after that bloody scenario just to witness me achieving my goals in life. 

     That memory always reminds me of my priorities and of the goal I am opt to reach. Also, that experience in my life taught me the “PhD” - poor, hungry, driven attitude (I’m not referring to Doctor of Philosophy though, you might have thought of that for the abbreviation of PhD ^^) that ignites me whenever I am to lose the desire to step higher.

      My life had exposed me to poverty. I had experienced what it feels like to be hungry. And these two things - poverty and hunger, drives me to fight the thrust of laziness and other bad habits that could hold me back from reaching my goals in life. WE, referring to myself and my family already took a step higher and there are more heights to take. I would not allow anything that could put us back to that dim pedestal. I wiould be driving for more, would take higher altitudes, would soar higher.

     I would ensure that I am going to be a competent registered nurse. I would try to shine in this profession. I would make my father thank that “bloody scenario”, the nurses, the doctor and the hospital for giving him the chance to have a second life. 

    I might had put myself a step back from the field of nursing. But that did not mean myself losing the interest towards that profession as what others had in their minds. I just decided to let the desire grow more, to let the passion ignite with higher intensity, to let the drive have the better velocity by knowing myself better, through analyzing the direction those experiences in my life would like me to realize, to ensure of having an effective plan that would  take me in the sky. 

    I would not become just a registered nurse, I would become more than that -RN, MAN, MD, LlB ^^.

    These are for my family, for the second life my father was able to receive,and for the field of medicine which taught me  how to appreciate the happiness of what a complete family could provide to a simple life aiming for great er heights. 

    Try to track your past, retrieve those memories and use those in framing your future. For sure, you would find the right direction to reach success in your life. Treasure the education from your life history, learn by analyzing the meaning of those experiences, and continue your commitment for seeking self-improvement. 

    Let us all climb those altitudes to reach the summit of the mountain and witness the wonderful place awaiting us on that height. See you all at the top ^^.