Unshared Facebook Post

Scratch cards, Bingos and raffles – I always lose whenever I play them. I’m not a lucky person, I used to be but because of one Facebook post I didn’t share, seven years of bad luck was upon me. Last May, I played another game where I was destined to lose. I took a chance in the CRS and hoped that I would be granted a block section, but no, I wasn’t. And given that I didn’t have someone who has the exact same schedule as mine, there were a few times last semester that I was forced to eat lunch by myself. There were a few times where I walked alone. But what’s good about not being part of any block was I got to know more people, I got to make more friends.

This semester, I was almost sure I’d make more friends; I was right. It was the second week of my second semester when I was put in a group with four other people. One of them is Jek Tabaog. At first glance, she looked like an introvert, I used to think that she really enjoys studying and that her hobbies only include: studying, studying and more studying. The second one is Dave Taduran. I was also in a class with him last semester so what I would be writing about is my first impression of him back in our Kas 2 class. Dave looked like the quiet type, the one who stays inside when everybody’s out. And he really doesn’t talk much, we were also in a group last semester and everyone in our group, including myself, were already laughing while Dave hasn’t even introduced himself yet. Next is Abbie Villanueva, unlike the other two, she seemed like the fun loving, talkative, bad girl. At the same time, I also felt like she was a snob because every time I looked at her, she stares back with this blank, unsmiling, almost glaring, face. And lastly, Daphne Villanueva. She looked like the qui...

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.... The amphitheater would probably whisper this quote – “Everybody wants happiness, nobody wants pain, but you can’t have a rainbow without a little rain.” – to my ear over and over again. The LifeBox tambayan, like the amphitheater, would tell me to always look at the brighter side of things. It will also remind me to never stop believing and to not forget to thank Him for everything He has done.

And lastly, if these places huddled together, they would say, in chorus and in the loudest voice possible, how important friends are and how wrong I was about my groupmates.

I play games of chance and most of the time I lose. I enlisted in two different blocks and yet I wasn’t granted any. I was in a group with people I didn’t have a good first impressions of but thankfully, the unshared Facebook post forgot to shower me with bad luck and for once, I was lucky I was wrong.