CPA Bum
Hi! I’m Mia Dagal. Twenty-four years old (at least still for the next 14 days) and living in Cavite. Filipino by heart, by mind, and by fact (not physically though, ‘cos I’ve always been mistaken as a Chinese). I’m an Assumptionist. CPA since October 2009. I work as an Auditor in Makati, I’ve been to Internal and now exploring External. Photography Enthusiast. Aspiring Runner.
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I have so much to say. But apparently, in this country and industry, there’s no such thing as freedom of speech.
There is. Yes. But if you practice, you’re totally screwed. So, doesn’t it equate to nil?
You tell me. And prove me wrong.
Somehow, it has gotten into me.
I’m afraid I might lose myself.
One always has to adjust for others. What for? To live the ideal life. The life that everybody wants and dreams of.
Reality sucks. Cos in reality, there’s really no such thing as being independent. You can’t do everything by yourself, even for yourself. It always has to involve other people.
Then, people judge.
What I Did Today: Aside from posting my previous entry for this blog and finishing some work stuff, I spent the rest of my time reading articles on this site (click the title of this post). I have flooded my twitter timeline in posting the links of my favorite ones. They’re just awesome and real. You should check it out, too! Go go go! :)
Allow me to share with you a couple of things that have been going through my mind for the past few days (or weeks, I’ve lost track).
First, I’m bothered by the correlation between age and achievements. I’m turning a bit older in a month and along with that comes the following questions, “Where are you right now in terms of career?”, “How far have you gone since high school?”, “Have you achieved a thing or two?”, and last question (but definitely not the least), “Are you any near to attaining the answer you gave when you were asked about “how you see yourself 5 years from now” after college, which was 2 years ago?”
Isn’t it difficult to think about such questions at this point? Especially in my case, how can I not be flustered when I answered wrong to that last question. To give you a hint, my answers came from the idea that I’d earn big bucks after passing the CPA board. I was wrong. It didn’t happen to me. And it doesn’t happen to anyone.
The second thing that’s been bothering me is adulthood. I thought being the eldest is the toughest job I’ve experienced, until I started feeling adult and needed to act as an adult. My decisions can make or break my future, my life. You see, there’s a lot of responsibility when you become an adult. You have to earn not only for yourself but also for others you love and care for. You don’t have back-ups anymore when things go wrong. You have to settle things by yourself. You now have a life to hold and maintain, yours. Sure, we made decisions before that we considered difficult but this time, it’s entirely different because this is the future you’ve been talking about and working on in the past. During adolescence stage of life, it is okay to make mistakes, to choose the incorrect option. There will always be the oldies who will back us up in case we go down the road. But during adulthood, no, it’s not acceptable. We are now the older people that the young ones look up to. Yes, freedom is endless but the responsibility is just so heavy… And sometimes, burdensome.
Life, in another, is the last major concern I have ever since I-can’t-remember-when. I’ve shared with you my thoughts about death on my Eulogy entry, and I am still in awe about the fact that everything in this world is uncertain. Things always have to end. Nothing’s permanent. The things we bought using our allowance from our parents, things we purchased with the use of our own earnings, memories we have of the places we had been to, friends we struggled to keep, relationships we invested in, money we worked hard for, enemies we fought against… all those would END. And unfortunately, we don’t know when. Everything is just so uncertain.
News flash: Life can be easily taken away from us.
We know for a fact that life is short but, apparently, we always forget to act about this. I assume it’s because we know persons who are living old aged. We believe we’d reach 50 or 60 years. However, we may not. We may die early. We may leave this world earlier than we expected, or even wanted. Yes, we all understand this kind of things, I know, I know. But most of the time, admit that we ignore them. We act like it’s not gonna happen!
This I say, we can start living each day of our life as the last. Live like it’s the last day. As my high school teacher would always remind us, “do not wait for tomorrow, what you can do today.” Very cliche, but seriously, we don’t pay attention to these things. I, for one, is guilty.
How about you?
(Forgive the incoherence, I can’t compose my thoughts all at the same time. They’re just so many. It makes me frustrated to not tackle everything. Oh well.)
