Prison Break
Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D
They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out.
He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom.
“I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my driving force when I was a small kid."
A leader, sweet-talker, and over-achiever, Engineer Jayson Naval has always been highly motivated. He’s the quick-witted, charming fellow who’d kick your ass in advance calculus and render you speechless during a Debate. He finished Mechanical Engineering, like a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, but he won’t tell you that he’s …show more content…
But after twenty-four years of being caged, a moment of transcendence dawned on him and he decided to finally break down the bars.
“I realized, that there’s nothing really wrong with who you are … you can be an engineer, you can be a lawyer even if you have problems with your gender, and it's not really a problem, it's not really who you are, it's just a facet of your becoming, it doesn’t define me” he shares with us.
Jayson, now openly gay, walks us through his experience finding the key to self-realization, dealing with prejudice, religion, and politics and filling up that existential void we all have. After going in the clear about his sexual orientation, he went through a roller-coaster kind of ride. From leaving his job to pursuing a different path, to comfort room rights battle, to his indefatigable belief in the Aquino administration, to the road to improvement of one’s overall
Carmela Estrella B. Enriquez // BAJ 2-1D
They locked him up in a closet for Twenty-four years but, he found a way out.
He is, in fact, a mechanical engineer, bred with ingenuity and sparked with the right amount of madness. Twenty-four years he was locked up by the society’s machoism but one decision gave him the key to freedom.
“I really learned how to strive hard and earn something from myself not from my parents, not from the people around me” he says. “Basically, that's my driving force when I was a small kid."
A leader, sweet-talker, and over-achiever, Engineer Jayson Naval has always been highly motivated. He’s the quick-witted, charming fellow who’d kick your ass in advance calculus and render you speechless during a Debate. He finished Mechanical Engineering, like a bowl of cornflakes for breakfast, but he won’t tell you that he’s …show more content…
But after twenty-four years of being caged, a moment of transcendence dawned on him and he decided to finally break down the bars.
“I realized, that there’s nothing really wrong with who you are … you can be an engineer, you can be a lawyer even if you have problems with your gender, and it's not really a problem, it's not really who you are, it's just a facet of your becoming, it doesn’t define me” he shares with us.
Jayson, now openly gay, walks us through his experience finding the key to self-realization, dealing with prejudice, religion, and politics and filling up that existential void we all have. After going in the clear about his sexual orientation, he went through a roller-coaster kind of ride. From leaving his job to pursuing a different path, to comfort room rights battle, to his indefatigable belief in the Aquino administration, to the road to improvement of one’s overall