Past.How I am Loving It

How significant PAST is for you?

Well for me, it’s one of my teachers. PAST taught me a lot. It taught me how to look back and never forget where I came from, how to move on, and give me the best experience of learning.

A very special friend just sent me an SMS. I really liked how she appreciated our friendship—a friendship that was shallowly-cultivated from the past.

“… I still remember tayo magkasama at buddy nung 1^st year. Hehe, thanks din girl kasi I had met you along my way. God is really good indeed di ba? See how God works also, in our friendship, though in silence we both care for each other. Hehe, you’re still the special girl I knew since then. And God makes a way for us to cultivate more that friendship na masyado nabigyan ng lalim before. Hay, I miss high school girl, I miss my mom. At least I’m building my own now. With God’s help, masaya kami.

Her name is Che-Che. She’s one of the best person who taught me how to appreciate PAST as LIFE’s teacher. Our friendship back then wasn’t that deep. She used to be my contender in any ways, same as I was her rival in each and everything. We never had a chance to get to know each other in a deep and serious way (for reasons we only know). It’s just so good to think that even if we’re not that close and we didn’t started the friendship that deep; we have the rarest friendship on earth.

Why am I telling you these? Because Che-Che is part of my past and forever kong dadalhin—TODAY, TOMORROW, and FOREVER.

I remember how I asked my History teacher. He’s name is Mr. Matavia. “Sir, why do we have to study Rizal’s life? I can’t see any significance na pwede nating i-connect sa nursing eh.”

True. Til now I can’t figure out what’s the connection between Rizal’s life and nursing. Is it because Rizal was a doctor? I don’t think so.

Sir Matavia answered, “Because by studying history, we’ll know what to do in the present and the future.”

It’s important we’ll look back from our past. There are things in the past na mali—in a way na ginawa nating mali. We exactly know na mali yet we continued to do it. Sir Matavia’s point is: we need to determine the right thing to do para hindi na maulit yung pangit na nakaraan.

Every one has dark past. Even me. A lot. But Ahia Hubert once told me. Once lang but tumatak talaga sa utak ko. “LEARN FROM THE PAST, dahil kung di mo matutunang pag-aralan yung past mo, hinding hindi ka makaka-move on. You’ll forever be stucked.”

See how PAST can be a good teacher? I, personally, had a lot from the past. Every day that passes by becomes a past-and every past has lesson for us to learn. Just never regret something that made you happy.