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The year 2008 has offered so much to my little soul. My year started with my asking the seminary for my re-entry after 3 long years trying to know more about who I am and what the meaning of my life is. I was searching for my soul, my lost soul. I travelled a lot thinking that I could find myself somewhere, only to realize that it is in my silence and in my stillness that I can be where my soul is.
The company where I worked offered me an offer of a lifetime just for me to stay and keep my job as a Publishing Consultant. I never thought I was worth that much to the company. It was so tempting. But it made me choose even more the seminary. I realized that my happiness is not on the glitters and glamour of the world but in finding what my soul wants and in staying where my soul wants to dwell.
My entry to the seminary last June was one of the best decisions I made in my life. It was difficult at first. Imagine this, I used to work night shift for the last 3 years. My sleeping hours were from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM. All of a sudden I have to close my eyes at 11:00 PM and wake up at 5:00 AM? My goodness, it was my nightmare. After 3 months, I was back in the old seminary routine.
I won friends, real friends. I started to open up my soul to some. So open was I, that I forgot boundaries. It led me to frustrations. I thought of quitting again. Perhaps the corporate world was better for me. I was so down and so devastated. I realized now, I need not quit in the formation. Perhaps I need to re-adjust. The funny thing is that, some seminarians are asked to open up themselves and share their thoughts to others. Mine is a different thing, what I need to do is to try to close my mouth and keep my thoughts to myself.
This is the reason why DODONG’S HAVEN is created, that I will have my own avenue to pour out my soul freely.
The year 2008 has offered so much to my little soul. My year started with my asking the seminary for my re-entry after 3 long years trying to know more about who I am and what the meaning of my life is. I was searching for my soul, my lost soul. I travelled a lot thinking that I could find myself somewhere, only to realize that it is in my silence and in my stillness that I can be where my soul is.
The company where I worked offered me an offer of a lifetime just for me to stay and keep my job as a Publishing Consultant. I never thought I was worth that much to the company. It was so tempting. But it made me choose even more the seminary. I realized that my happiness is not on the glitters and glamour of the world but in finding what my soul wants and in staying where my soul wants to dwell.
My entry to the seminary last June was one of the best decisions I made in my life. It was difficult at first. Imagine this, I used to work night shift for the last 3 years. My sleeping hours were from 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM. All of a sudden I have to close my eyes at 11:00 PM and wake up at 5:00 AM? My goodness, it was my nightmare. After 3 months, I was back in the old seminary routine.
I won friends, real friends. I started to open up my soul to some. So open was I, that I forgot boundaries. It led me to frustrations. I thought of quitting again. Perhaps the corporate world was better for me. I was so down and so devastated. I realized now, I need not quit in the formation. Perhaps I need to re-adjust. The funny thing is that, some seminarians are asked to open up themselves and share their thoughts to others. Mine is a different thing, what I need to do is to try to close my mouth and keep my thoughts to myself.
This is the reason why DODONG’S HAVEN is created, that I will have my own avenue to pour out my soul freely.
