What Ifs...

Have you ever wondered what you're life would have been today if you had made different choices in the past?

Lately, that's all I've been thinking about.

The 'what ifs' of my life.

Like, what if I hadn't taken up journalism in college? What if I took up nursing, then by now I wouldn't have to go to college again.

What if I hadn't taken up journalism, would I have met my beybi? Coz I met my beybi when I was an apprentice for Manila Times. So if I took up a different course, I wouldn't have worked for a newspaper. I wouldn't have been assigned to the defense beat. I wouldn't have met him.

For a while, these thoughts played on my mind over and over again. But when I stop and think about it, I have to say that I would still have made the choices I'd made back then.

Everything happens for a reason. And my taking up journalism led to different aspects of my life that I wouldn't dare change ever.

If I had taken up nursing back in college, I probably wouldn't have as much fun as I did in college. I probably would be locked up in my room, studying. I probably wouldn't have time to explore. I probably wouldn't enjoy college as much as I did.

If I hadn't studied in Manila, I would probably be a different person as I am today. I learned a lot in Manila. I learned to accept differences of people. I got to see what life is really all about.

I learned. Not from books or the four corners of the classroom. I learned outside of it.