beyond toxicity

My youngest brother left 2 days ago for Europe where he will work in a cruise ship called Costa Atlantica. Anyone will be envious of his work where cruising Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Norway, Greece, Estonia, Russia, Portugal, Denmark, Spain and other european tourist spots with the rich and famous is the icing on the cake. He landed the job just before finishing his O.J.T. in the same office that sent him to Europe.  Things came to his lap so swiftly. Fortunately for him, he gets to work abroad barely 3 months after graduation. And there he is now, he emailed and texted us that he already arrived at Schippol Airport in Amsterdam safe and sound.  He’s the first in our family to have a Schengen visa and the first to earn Euro at age 21.

But he didn’t had Tourism as an initial course in mind before. And he didn’t had CEU as his only school. Meaning, he enrolled in 2 other universities with 2 different courses before he decided that Tourism at his alma mater is the ONE for him. He was delayed for a year than his batchmates. But heck, he is in Europe now.  He’ll be working while traveling and meeting people and learning various cultures. and smelling tulips and opportunities are just countless… What more can you ask for.  

I myself did not plan to be a doctor or to be a member of an academe. Most of my friends back in High School thought that I will pursue fine arts after being a consistent winner or runner up in monthly poster-making contests representing our section, competed against other year levels which they had my other brother (now a private aviator) as their rep. I did not enrol in a college of fine arts, nor did push through a career in advertising but took and finished BIOLOGY, a pre-med course that lead me to MEDICINE. And as they say, the rest is blah blah blah…(uhhmm, history).

Fate has its way of leading us to where and what we should be. God has plans for us long before we ask for our lifelong wishes. He’s omnipotent. He knows BEST. Sometimes, our plans do not go well with His. So we have to better our lives and fit to every situation that come our way. Flexibility with destiny is essential to enjoy life to the fullest and for us NOT to consider that ours is just accidental.