It was an ordinary day at the office and my colleagues and I were discussing robbing incidents we’ve witnessed in the past couple of days.
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“I’m very thankful that I’ve never been in incidents like that. I haven’t been robbed, mobbed or anything. It’s like my instincts are always telling where to go and what to do”, I blurted out.
“Then you’re very well guided”, said a female colleague, smiling.
Her words made me think. Usually people would say, “Ang swerte mo!” (“You’re lucky!”). But “you are very well guided” is not a phrase you often hear people say. I realized the gravity of what she said. I looked back at the things I’ve gone through. It made me see that she is indeed correct, because no matter how lost I am emotionally and geographically, I always manage to find my way.
As I went on with my business of reading manga and watching movies online (hey, it’s almost time for the holidays, not much work to do), I recalled a story my mother told me when I was young.
When I was around 4 months old, she put me to sleep in the middle of the bed, stuffing pillows beside me to keep me from rolling. My mother went to the adjoining kitchen to prepare my milk bottles in case I wake up and ask for it. A couple of minutes later, she came back and was very surprised to see that I’m missing.
Frantically, she searched the room for me. After a while she heard baby googling sounds coming from under the bed. She checked and saw me there, lying on my back and smiling at an invisible entity.
“I was surprised to see you under the bed when you can barely roll over on your stomach”, my mother would say. “You didn’t make any sound at all!”
She proceeded to claim that it was my angel that caught me when I fell down from the bed.
Angels. Yeah, I do believe in angels but I never really thought that they will reside on Earth to watch over our every step.
Everything happens for a reason. That is what I believed in for a very long time. Sometimes, I may hate the situation for all of its hardships and difficulties and most of the time, I lose hope that everything will turn out fine. In the end, I always manage to come up and say “Hey, I made it.”
During those dark times, I failed to see that I am guided. It only takes one angel to pull me through and guide me. I’m done evil things but I know I also did good things more than evil. And I thank my Angel for guiding me and whispering loudly to my ears.
In life, we cannot always be sheltered otherwise we’ll miss great opportunities that life has in store for us. We cannot always choose to be in the middle because different times call for different choices. And we certainly cannot always be happy, because in order to feel happiness, one should also feel sadness.