In the populous city of Manila, everything and anything is possible. You can buy imitated and second-rate versions of signature products. You can be robbed under the scorching heat of the sun. You can be bumped by reckless motorcycle drivers. You can be scouted for a magazine appearance. You can be can be stuck in an elevator with your horrible boss. You can drop your last MRT card into a canal. You can be spit on by strangers. And if lucky, you can find true love.
True love is the soul’s recognition of its counterpoint in another. It happens once in a lifetime or, if lucky, maybe twice. When true love walks along your street, how far can you go to prove that he/she is the one written in the stars for you? Are you willing to sacrifice your miraculous faith for your possible fate? Are you converting into the religion of the person you love, leaving your god behind? Or are you keeping your god and leaving your possible only true love?
Cross-enrolling in the UAAP league’s universities is something. Changing your religion for the one you love is another thing. When you are in a tight situation like this, you wish you never met the one you love or you wish that you never attended church every Sunday. You feel like an idiot glued between choosing a great good and a greater god. You have this hell of a cloud in your mind-no matter how hard you try to eliminate the cloud, you simply can’t because your problem is one hell of a problem endured only by the fittest. It is like life in the Central Business District, you are one small corporation on the way to greatness if you merge with the right corporation. What do you exactly choose if the corporations are the most opulent in the stock market? How would you know which one will increase the value of your stocks? How would you know which one to invest in to?
It’s fate versus faith-your fidelity to your religion against your attachment to your true love, and possibly your one true love. This is not a competition but whichever of the two corporations you choose you will surely and definitely end up losing a big corporation possible to increase the value of your stocks and might increase your market value.
If you are going to choose, make sure that what you choose is going to be worth what you’re going to lose. If both your possible solutions slaps like hell, choose the one that will slap big time. If you considered giving one corporation up thus keeping the other corporation and found out that it will hurt as hell, choose the one which will hurt like there’s no tomorrow. What I’m saying is, you are only going to choose once-don’t use the mind in choosing, use the heart. Your mind is programmed to endure everything but your heart is bound to fluctuate with intolerable plugs and switches.
In the populous city of Manila, everything and anything is possible. You can be religious and loveless. You can be full of love and empty of religion. And if lucky, you might find the relieving solution to my tormenting problem: faith versus fate.
