Knock Knock

" A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
- Francis Bacon

Are you waiting for opportunities to knock on your door today? You better stop waiting my friend because you will never hear that knock knock.Opportunities will not knock on your door.You can spend your whole lifetime waiting but its going to be a waste of time.

You know why?

Because you are the opportunity! So instead of waiting for it i strongly suggest that you get up. Yeah, you get up and move and open the door to your destiny.Get up and if you are not yet dressed then you get dressed up then open your door and walk towards the blessing that awaits you. You are an opportunity!

Now let me share to you about Jacky the Opportunity

A week ago i met Jacky in the church and then we became friends.
She was born not seeing her father and for 18 years she lived with a relative in Cagayan de Oro city.When she finished high school she went to Manila and work as a house maid. Not long after that she is back in Mindanao because of the death of her uncle.

Wanting to find her place in this world and a better future she went to Cebu and lived with her mother but life wasn't easy as she expects. There was no glimpse of hope for her to study and it was even more difficult because her mother can't help her much with her other needs.Finding no hope to be able to study with her mothers assistance she turns to her inner strength instead of complaining.

Because there was no available help she made it her self because she knows she is an opportunity. In order to support her self and to pursue her desire to study she decided to venture into a small business that surely some good looking and even the not so gifted with beauty would dare not do.

She sells puto cheese, masi (i love masi especially if its free ha ha ha),biko and other snacks from eskina tita.Every morning, while the rest of the world is still sleeping Jacky is already awake and is on her way to get her products to sell.By 5:30 she is already in Highway Mandaue knocking on peoples hungry intestines to buy her stuffs.And it wasn't an easy thing to do because she needs to walk to and fro from the Highway to the fly over area and back again until all the foods are sold.

She is there from early morning to eleven in the morning inhaling the pollution,almost toasted by the sun,half frozen by the rain, maneuvering on the crowd, and experiencing the different attitudes and moods of the mob.Sometimes she is treated like she has no worth but that didnt stop her from the opportunity that she creates because she has a dream to chase.By 11:30 Jacky heads for home to get ready for her class in the afternoon.On Sundays instead of waking up late like what most teens and young people do, she is out again selling and in a much longer route of more than two kilometers walk from Gethsemane church to the highway.

She is glued to pursue her dreams and she knows she can because she believes that she is an opportunity and making excuses like i'm poor, i'm not lucky, i'm shy, i'm scared is not on her dictionary.What she believes is she is an Opportunity that will very soon knock on the doors of her dreams.Her's what i want to say to you Jack... You go GIRL!