Monday, January 21, 2008 12:27 AM
highly literary, with occasional grammar slips
SUCCESS
is a big word.
i wouldn't say i know it well. but it has been with me as i marched through my days in red cross, high-classed through my interact club days. i knew it better when i found myself holding its hand when i headed the ocip. of course, not withstanding my ABCs which i almost sit side by side with. success was a plural in me.
until i realized that i don't know it at all.
the saturday that just past was a major reminder for me. is it the money that i can earn from tuition? is it the number of A's i can get in exams (by the way, i didn't)? or is it the list of leadership roles i have undertaken which i pride myself in?
it is none of the above.
success
it is when you have a friend to call when you are upset. it is when you have a friend call you when she/he is upset.
it is when you find love. and keep it till you live a ripe old age with wrinked cheeks and rotting dentures.
it is when you mother the younger ones and empower them to greater heights. and having them mother the next generation to higher grounds.
it is when you make a difference to your poor neighbour who doesn't have enough for the month.
it is when you know hardships and accept it with grit.
success. well, i wouldn't say i know it well, but
i'll try.
