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Here it is. Every graduate’s nightmare: JOB-HUNTING.

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The thing is that I have this really bad habit of staring at other people wherever I go. And I try to eavesdrop at strangers’ conversations.

I don’t mean to dip my nose into some other people’s business for that matter. It’s just that I like to observe people. To hear what’s going on.

I know it’s rude to stare or listen to strangers’ conversations. Yet you just can’t quench that insatiable thirst to create the entire picture of what’s going on in the world. 

The real world knows nothing about the perfect, little fantasies we may have.

The real world is a collage of different stories from different people who have so much to say about how they view the world in their eyes. 

I’ve gone a long way from the girl who dreams of unicorns and everything perfect to that awkward adult who tries to make her way into the world where ironies and realities are a reflection of how cruel life can be for everybody. 

Perhaps that’s why I fell in love with Development Communication. You get to meet different people with different stories. You humbly realize that there is a different world apart from yours. 

And that’s why I stare at people. Listen to their conversations. I try to put the pieces of a complicated puzzle we call life. 

Heck, it’s tough. Well, the world doesn’t really need me; there are politicians and other individuals who at least try to save the world.

Guess what? They can’t do everything for me. And more often, they won’t do anything for you at all. They’re often self-indulgent. Selfish, self-centered arses. 

From these strangers, their faces and their stories, I get my inspiration to live. To write. To work in making things better not just for myself but for everyone else around me.

I’ll just have to keep remembering that it’s rude to stare at strangers. It’s rude to eavesdrop. 

Yet my heart pulls me in to look at their faces. To listen to what they have to say about everything. 

There is beauty in realizing that you indeed learn better when you go out into the real world. Wisdom flourishes from the experiences of the world. It blossoms when you feed your heart and soul into it.