What Keeps Me Going

I haven't been blogging for weeks now, and because of what happened earlier in school I thought would be worth mentioning here, here I am creating this post.

Most of you know that my salary is not at par with my needs, as I am tax-exempt from my profession of being a college instructor. Me still teaching here in Quezon is kinda far fetched, but still some things keep me going, and here is a short list.

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1.) The respect. Even if the owner of the school or that lying bitch in Malacañang would be talking to me, they'll still be calling me "sir."

2.) It's fun being with young people, amidst the cacophony of stupidity and insecurity, I still find some students whom to challenge their beliefs with mine.

3.) Modesty aside, the awe that students express (mouths agape) when you pull of a kick ass explanation for something mundane or previously thought as insignificant. Its a good reminder of how good you are--and the weight loss and neurodermatitis you had to achieve that.

4.) Students telling you how tiresome the 3-hour subject can be at siesta hours but you can still tell some jokes to lighten the mood up.

5.) Students telling you how weird you are, in a good way, and they love it.

6.) Cute teenage girls saying "Nakakahiya namang tumabi kay sir, ang bango kasi!" out loud. Nuff said, haha.

7.) The same students that would surprise you by saying "Ayan sir, mabango na ako" after greetings during dismissal.

8.) Whole classes wanting to extend the class, even though its already dismissal time, and if possible via drinking sessions, because of your sociological and philosophical outpourings about religion and love life.

9.) The feeling that whatever success those young people you teach would achieve in later years, in whatever aspect, you somehow contributed to it.

10.) That feeling and knowledge that you are somehow at the same level, however trivial or ephemereal, with those professors you are idolizing in college. And that they call you "sir."



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