Break-up

I have always believed that everything happens for a reason. More often than not, we will never know what the reason was. Not too long ago i faced one of my life's defining moment. It is sort of a love-issue(..hehe). My most love relationship failed and ended. I could not imagine how devastated i was back then. I did all sort of crazy things just to move on. Then one day, i find myself moving to Manila for a new work assignment.

At first, I didn't bother checking what my life would be in a new environment with no relatives and friends to go to when things would turn bad. The only thing that matters to me was the need to start my life anew.

The first few weeks in Manila was doing fine not until when longing and isolation sunk in. It didn't took so long for me to wish I hadn't made such decision so rushed and unplanned. My new work-environment seems to be so harsh that many times during the night I have thought of resigning and going home. It made me realized how hard it is to leave life alone. Though, I have to fight. I don't want to impress to everyone left at home how weak I am. I don't want them thinking I have made a wrong decision. So times went by, slowly I was able to adapt to my new life and environment. I have been to new places like the 

Banaue Rice Terraces,                      the Vigan heritage,
                
               

the 100 islands of Pangasinan,         Abra, Tunnel

and counting. Four months to go and I'll be celebrating one year here in Manila.

Just this day, writing this one made me realized how I have developed my sense of maturity towards life. I am still a kid at heart, still impulsive at times but now I know very well I can manage new challenges in life. My career seemed to work great, my take-home pay seems to increase substantially, and from the looks of it I have a new great life now.

If not because of that break-up, I believed I wouldn't have been here. I would have stuck myself to that comfort zone. Right now, I have evolved, from a person so weak to a person who knows how to fight. A person who have seen that things really happened for a reason. I have no regrets after all. Life changes and it is in being open to that change that life is worth living.