On one beatiful day in May, a hale and hearty baby girl named Mira was born. How her parents rejoiced upon the birth of this little creature. Her brother and sisters were all very excited to meet their baby sister. Hopes of a bright future were never a letdown. God has been good to the family as He blessed this little kid the gift of wit and a good heart.
Mira was offered in the Church of Christ and served as a choir member in the Pagsamba ng Kabataan during her childhood years. In academics, she was twice awarded the most outstanding student at the Day Care Center in their hometown in Pampanga. In elementary, she bagged medals and certificates being a consistent honor student at the local elementary school and finally graduated the batch salutatorian.
She continued her high school in the neighboring town. With her mom’s all out support to her studies, she maintained being one of the top students.
Mira was generally excelling in almost every subject in school. Thus, choosing a career to take up in college is quite a poser. She altogether liked journalism and mass communication, being one of the school’s editorial writer and broadcaster and having English as her favorite subject. Nursing was also a good choice having the opportunity to work abroad with her uncle. Engineering and architecture, she reckoned, were also a choice because she so liked mathematics, especially geometry. In shorter terms, it was really hard to decide which course she will take. Then finally, after all of these reasoning out, she decided to take up Accountancy.
As the academic year of her last year in high school started, all of her batchmates, including her, were so busy applying for entrance examinations from different universities. She tried taking the UPCAT and USTET. During the last months of the academic year, results finally came and she successfully passed the entrance examinations for both the University of the Philippines and the University of Sto. Tomas.
But God works in her life. He didn’t let her study in any of those schools. At first, she was having faint resentment for she didn’t get the sign she asked for. It was painful for what she asked is to be that year’s salutatorian which for sure is not far from reality because she ranked second among her batchmates on the previous year.
Honor students were deliberated but no, she wasn’t the year’s salutatorian. She was only the third honorable mention. Just for that single problem which scored ten points on the term examinations, she lost three ranks up. But it wasn’t the end of everything. Losing the chance to study at UST and UP, her brother told her to go to their Church's University. She did. She passed the entrance examinations and she was able to study there. But still, questions continued to bother her.
Few weeks later after the opening of classes, God answered all of those queries. She was there at the university because it is there where she belongs. It is there where people will treat her as their own kin. It is there where not only her mind, but most especially her soul, will be nurtured. It is there where she found life.
Mira is recently a second year student and she is one of those who, as frequently called the cream of the crop, struggles to be retained as an accountancy student and continuously prove herself deserving of the title.
The story doesn’t end here. The voyage will carry on.
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