Being Here

Most of my life, I have been told to act a certain way, do certain things, be someplace I am not sure I want to be in. But I am finally where I want to be, writing. Writing has always been my passion. True, I am a science geek and I love Math more than the average person, but it has always been writing that I have been passionate about. It is the thing that I have always wanted to do.

As a kid, I realized that writing my thoughts can affect people, can change things. Yes, I had a messianic complex thing going on. Feeling ko magbabago ang world pag naging manunulat ako. (I felt like the world was gonna change if I become a writer.) But being who I was and wanting to please, I took a different path, one that was well within my skills and capabilities, but obviously one that I wasn’t really very much passionate about.

But things happened. A complex web of stories of because of this and because of that, from being a webmaster wannabe to professional blogger to gamer to poker enthusiast. All these things contributed to my finally being a writer, finally landing that dream job. I am finally where I want to be, doing the thing I love most.

Maybe it’s true what they say… that the world gives you what your heart truly desires when you are finally ready for it. If I had been given this opportunity years ago, or maybe months ago, I would have maybe done it differently, might have not been as well-prepared as I am now. Years of experience as a blogger has taught me a lot, made me better. And I am now (I would like to think) ready to be published on print.

I love being a blogger, and it has given me so much, made me who I am, and continues to make me aspire to be more. But there is something about writing, about being published on print that gives me a different kind of high. Maybe it’s because I have always wanted it. Have dreamt about it, and have always nurtured that dream inside me that one day, maybe one day it will happen. And it did.

It might not be as wonderful as I picture out to be, not as great as I want it to be, but at least I am given the chance to live my dream. And I hope this is not it, that there will be more and better things out there, more and better things that will help me grow.

I hope you join me in celebrating as my first column, Ria-lity Bites sees print on the SunStar Davao this Wednesday.

Much love and thanks to all my blogging and writing mentors especially to Ate Aileen and Kuya Andrew, and to Mr. John Labella of AdMU who taught me most of what I know! Also much thanks to Sunstar Davao Editor Nelson Bagaforo for this opportunity! <3

PS Hope I have made my first deadline. If not, check SunStar again next week. LOL!