subtleoasis: won another one...

I'm sorry if it's only now that I'm writing this post. The events was just so fast and shocking that I didn't have much chance to express the feelings that I felt. It was too much for me too handle, last Thursday. After being greeted by my winning post, before the state-of-shock that I had finally ebbed, another surprise brushed through my day's canvass.

I was walking down the halls of our college, looking for a certain priest, when two college students grabbed my hand, gave me a smile and jubilantly pronounced the words I wasn't expecting (but dreaming) to hear: Congratulations!

All the while, I thought someone told them about my Filipina post. But I was wrong.

I was overwhelmed by the fact that something that I have written has been recognized and much appreciated to the point of forgetting about the elections that took place that day. And so I was caught dumbfounded, with jaws wide-open, when the news reached me (through a brother seminarian): Congratulations vice!

(the following would be anti-climactic *grin(a holy one)*)
Yes. I won the elections. The formal declaration of the winners would be tomorrow. My unfinished tasks list is yet to be crammed with more tasks as another responsibility has found its way on my shoulders. It doesn't end there. Rather, it is the beginning of NEW frontiers for me. The beginning of MORE service; thus, the commencement of further self-discovery. In the following days of my life, I'll be encountering more people - my fellow college students whom I chose to serve - in my life. But what's exciting me more is the fact that I'll soon be much in touch with myself.