July 31, 2012

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A smile for a smile.

I was in my complete uniform that day, from head to toe. I did not wear my ID since I had my nameplate on.  I was heading back to the university from our clinical duty. When I was about to enter one of the university gates, the security guard stopped me and asked, "ID mo?" Well, I just smiled at him and rummaged through my fullpacked bag for my ID. As I showed him my ID, he smiled back at me and asked, "Anong year mo na?" "Fourth year po," I answered. "Wow, graduating ka na pala. Galingan mo," he said. Then I replied, "Salamat po. Good day, Kuya."

It made my day even though everything that happened before our conversation was full of distress and worries. Such exchange of words was different and perhaps, unusual. Most students would negatively react if they were in the same situation. Maybe, a little positivity with a bit of "putting yourself in his situation" helped. He was a security guard and one of his tasks was to check everyone's ID and ensure that everyone who enters is involved in the institution. He was just doing his job unlike those guards in the malls. I would sometimes curse them for making me open my fullpacked backpack and then they would just point their stick-like thing into the bag and let me go. They did not even check what's inside. The point is "If you have a job, it's either you do it correctly and precisely or you don't do it at all."


A smile really is contagious. :) And the feeling when you make someone smile is incomparable. 

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