Lock and key

Happy A., R.

Thank you for the wonderful years.

Of patience, more patience and God being fair

Yet again, I have to remind myself:

God has a way of balancing things out.

I just need to be patient and wait for the period of reckoning.

Haaaaay. Patience na naman. Why does it always have to involve patience when I have zilch of it?

I'm almost done reading "Brida," one of Paulo Coelho's bestsellers. As it says there, to understand how the Universe works, patience is a virtue that one has to muster and master. That is why God has an endearment to shepherds - they are patient, they commune with nature and they are comfortable with silence.

It's not coincidence that everything now in my life is boiling down to learning this virtue.

So help me God talaga.

Sis

In a place where there is strong religious (stress on the religious, but not spiritual) divide and I am considered an outsider, because I'm an "asing," I am touched and overwhelmed when local colleagues make me feel I belong.

It's been several times already that four people have referred to me as "Sis" or "sistah" in email and BB correspondences.

While I feel it's bakya when a Filo calls me one, I'm flattered and moved when I'm fondly called this way by people here.

To me, friendships and relationships matter more than any other kind of achievement and success. Reaching my KPIs is useless if I don't feel personally connected to people.

Salamat, salamat - for letting me in on the circle.

*warm, fuzzy feeling inside* =)