Think About it

I am the typical scholarly girl who religiously goes to school, spends a bit of her time hanging out with “intellectual” friends and bids them good bye afterwards. I was the kind of girl who would more likely refuse to take a bungee-jumping ticket pass because mom and dad might disapprove. I was that girl who sat alone in the corner of the room during prom and who honestly never had a boyfriend, even up to now, while I am writing this stuff, whatever you call it.

There have been countless of movies that influenced me. Even the diction and choice of words of some famous actors and actresses in Hollywood have already been incorporated to my entire personality. Mimicry, in some way has been my way of life. I’ve always been the girl who believed in happily ever-afters, who wishfully held her greatest hopes for a life full of adventure, thrill, laughter and romance. I will not deny the fact that I daydream, almost every single day. Apart from the harsh and unloving society that I grew up with, (thank goodness, my parents taught me how to love) I didn’t happen to let go of that aspiration that the world has a lot of things... great things in store for me.

Well, let’s have a major reality check. I am a very forgetful person.  Perhaps science can explain it, or the art of psychiatry can, but seriously, it’s getting in my way towards being a successful Chief Finance Officer someday. It sucks to know that simple instructions at home always get unaccomplished, and worse, most of the time, it ends up with broken kitchenwares, faucets open for about an hour, things lost, and all else that can be disastrous. I know, I know, it has to be addressed before it’s too late. My parents are seriously upset about it and what more can be frustrating when you can’t get to have the best of both worlds? Family and academic life....well I don’t even get to experience the “good” from even one of them. I am a gradating Accountancy student now at a local university and I am not ready for the real world. I mean, the business world where your boss can yell at you anytime, anywhere without you having the right to practice your “human rights” or when you get to mingle with mean officemates who hypothetically stab your back every single day, plus the pile of office tasks to accomplish. Now tell me, who in this world would not prefer to settle with her short daydreams somehow, to ease the thought of worry? Oh, the Board exam! Let’s not forget that part. Every Accountancy student sees that as the final test. You know, it’s like the CIA or NBI final initiation towards being a part of an intelligence team. Cool right? I mean, every newly-registered CPA aspirant would surely shout for joy by the time they get to see their names on the passers’ list.

You know, I’ve been thinking, what if right now, at this very moment, a drop-dead-gorgeous agent will jump inside my room while I’m typing this stuff and will do his insanely cool moves and will inform me that the United States of America has collaborated with the Republic of the Philippines to include me in their team to track down a serious terrorism threat in the Middle East or somewhere dangerous and I will be out of the picture (in that case, I’ll stop going to school, my family will think I’m dead or something to that extent) for a year or more. What do you think will I say? Of course I will ask questions and he’ll say: “Everything is under control Ms. Ess, we will be giving you necessary training for six months and after the mission, the federal government will hold itself responsible for the entire educational and societal problem you might encounter. We will arrange everything and you can continue your normal life. Right now, I just need you to decide. Your voluntary participation is necessary for this top secret operation.” Now what? I mean, I am about to end my 4 full years of college undertaking and here comes this macho guy who gives me the opportunity to do something entailing big responsibility, thrill, excitement, hard-core action and the chance of a lifetime to meet my Mr. Right. Yes, the typical me will actually take down the offer. But seriously, taking into consideration everything I owe to my benefactor and to my loving parents and to everyone who helped me to be where I am right now, I will still think twice. For a while, I think this would be the best case study to ponder upon and solve for that matter. Seriously, if you were in my shoes, will you say yes?

Think about it.