Chapter 14

Learning is an ongoing process, a path that we should take throughout eternity. We have so much to learn, and a lot of ways on how to be able to do so.

Ako, nakasanayan ko nang mag-self-study. I prefer knowing things than letting other people tell them to me. Ayaw ko sa spoon-feeding, I strive to gain knowledge. Consequently, a lot of people wishes to be like me.

Whenever I achieve something, like garnering an award that raises the pride of my school, it is announced in the official page of the school. In there, a sea of comments shows me how much people want to be me.

'How to be you po?' is the most common phrase I am receiving from strangers. But in the case of the people who know me or to the ones who think they do, they may not directly ask it, but I know they are saying, 'How to be not you, Heather?'

I never asked that to myself, until a particular day came. Really, how to be not me?

It was more destructive than a volcanic erruption, more painful than failed promises, worse than