After graduating from my incredible high school life, my first choice of course was Accountancy. Firstly because of my grandmother's influential, enticing, striking words.."Someday when you have your own family, you will be able to spend more time with them because Accountants goes to work after the sun had fully risen and went home before it sets.." Secondly because I was inspired by my mentor Ma. Cleah Ramos. Her subject was one of my favorites. Aside from memorizing the Table of Elements in Chemistry and the contradicting statements of Physics and Geometry in which the former says that the opposites attract while like signs repel and the latter on the other hand claims that parallel lines will never meet, Basics in Accountancy was one of the mind-boggling, challenging subject I greatly enjoyed. The Debit-Credit, Assets and Liabilities' thing make my adrenaline rushed just to determine the Net. I already took entrance exam in almost all schools offering Accountancy but I ended up enrolling in School of Nursing. There, I learned to love the 206 bones and 620 muscles of the human body..how to dissect a live frog without puncturing its lungs..and the concept that in scientific sense, it's the brain that loves and not the heart..
I recently had a young vegetative patient. As I was giving my best shot in taking care of him, I saw a figure of a weeping mom. Since touching in any form is prohibited here in the East even with the same sex, I offered her pieces of tissue. I just do hope that the tissues conveyed my utmost sympathy to her. As I reflected all the days' events, I was sure that God has the best reasons in mind why I ended up being a Nurse and not an Accountant. I may have handled the assets of unknown people should I had pursued Accountancy but I realized that I am handling the best asset God has given us-LIFE. I am thankful for the everyday chance I dirtied my hands to debit my patients' worth without expecting a credit in return. At the end of the day, happiness and self-fulfillment are my Net pay!
Sometimes, it's damn good to have U-turns..:)
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