Reflection On Take The Path That Will Make You Happy

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Kent Luigi C. Orbeta BM- PIANO II
BC 11
Traveler
“Take the path that will make you happy”. This quote was always on my mind and I’ve always reflected on it.
It was a rainy afternoon and it’s almost six o’clock in the evening, the cloud was very dark, the thunders were clashing like a cymbal and the lightning were flashing like a flash of the camera. I sat on my bed while looking outside the window and listened to the sounds of nature. Suddenly, one of our brothers in the community shouted “Brothers! We need to evacuate immediately because the water level outside will soon go higher and it will enter our dormitory”. So immediately we prepared ourselves. Others were panicking and some of them doesn’t know what to do, but I stayed frosty and
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I was really nervous because the judges were in front of me. After I took the audition, I waited outside the chapel. When the judges finished judging, they called us one by one and I was very happy because I passed the audition.
As time goes by and it was November, the rector of the seminary announces that we will be having a concert in Santo Niño in Butuan City on December 10, 2013. I was very happy because I was part of the group. We have our rehearsal every night after dinner. It was tiring but I enjoyed it because I like music. Every day I went to the library not to study philosophy and other subject, but to find a book about music or to find a piece of music. Whenever I found a piece of music, I immediately went to the chapel and starts playing the piano and suddenly Fr. Michael came to me and said “wow that was great huh! I never knew that you played the piano well, did you take some lesson?” and I replied “Yes father I took up piano lesson during my high school days.” And he said “Oh that’s great because we need a pianist here.” Then he left after our
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We sat on the ground while eating pizza and other foods and drinks. It was evening, the sky was so clear, the stars were sparkling and the moon shines very brightly. We were talking to each other and I was saying goodbye to my classmates. Five of us will leave the seminary and they were also saying goodbye and some of us were crying while talking about the memories that we had in the seminary. One of my classmates asked me why I had to leave, but I kept silent and I gazed into the night sky. I was afraid to tell him because I know that he could not understand my decision but Fr. Ramses, my spiritual director was the one who answered his questioned. He said “don’t worry because God will guide him

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