REVERSIBLE

Nahihiya na ako sa inyo kasi ako ang laging post ng post.Hindi ibig sabihin nito madaldal ako o mayabang ako or alam ko ang lahat. Ang ibig sabihin nito this is my means of communicating with you, especially now that I have renewed my friendships with the daughters of nightingales.And which fills my heart with so much love, warmth and affections. That whatever I post shall be something that can lighten our loads, ease daily burdens we all must endure. Let me just share with you this.

One time a friend dropped by the house. She was in tears for she was in deep financial situation. She is married with husband and 3 children in college. She couldn’t understand how this could happen to her when she is a chemist; top 3 in chemistry board exams. She has made good investments, acquired properties, owns a hardware store but one day she woke up with no money in her pocket and all her properties possessed by the bank (is that the correct term for it). She was as we call in pinoy “baon sa utang”. I told her, “goodness, what are you crying about”? (And we all know what she is crying about.) Children, irreversible. ( they did not ask to be born). Health, irreversible. (for obvious reasons). Money, reversible. (as long as you are not afraid of work) Husband, definitely reversible! She laughed so hard that she was crying and laughing at the same time.

How did her story ends? I brought her to my editor for we worked together in a project; a chemistry book for children. Next , we checked all possible schools here in Bulacan where she can get a teaching job. She is now working as high-school teacher in a school in Bulacan but more than the job; it is her confidence, her self-worthiness and validation as an intelligent woman who is capable of solving problems and getting out of mess is back. The salutatorian in her is back, the problem solver in her is back. And she is making wild reklamo how poor the aptitude of high-school students for sciences subjects are this time . I text her then, “Welcome back, chemist girl!” Oh and her loans, sa kanya ako nangongopya noong high school ng solutions,;she finds the solutions to it as well. By the way, she is married; the husband, now that's another story.

Let me end my post with my favorite poem by Emily Dickinson..
and I think this is the poem the best describes
The Daughters of Nightingales, 1978

If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
by Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.