THE PHOTOGRAPHS YOU SEE above diverge in a one-year time frame – 2007 and 2008 – taken with different circumstances but with similar sentiments that the model (who is actually the same person) was trying to portray during the “posing period”. But candidly speaking, one of them is truthfully happy while the other one is forlorn. Which is which? Well, let me explicate….
The first photo was taken last year when I was still the Features Editor of The Pioneer. Meanwhile, the second photo was taken recently this year, wherein I’m already the Managing Editor and Administrative & Finance Officer of The Pioneer. Last year, I used to write for the publication and finish the articles that I’m assigned to write, as well as cover the events I’m supposed to write about. This year, I handle the financial matters in the publication – the budgets for printing, preparation, hotel reservation for seminars, etc. -- and I face the school admin regarding some issues of the paper. (The latter is dreadfully stressful.)
Bluntly speaking, I WAS HAPPIER THEN.
Therefore, I conclude that “happiness could make someone chubby” while “stress could improve your looks if taken optimistically and ardently.”
Just don’t forget these aide memoires that will make your stressful life astonishing:
1.) If there is a dilemma regarding money matters, simulate as if you’re dazed but when everyone else is not around, laugh at it like a crazy man.
2.) Before you turn utterly foolish from laughing, you should start writing a request letter for disbursement and face the fact that you’ll perspire by doing so because you have to traverse from one building to another; thus you should turn on the air con while typing the letter to savor the cool air you can enjoy only for a moment. (Or better yet, write the letter at home.)
3.) Don’t catch pneumonia in arctic temperature caused by the air con; so learn how to adjust it through the remote control. (Or else, you won’t burn fats; you might loose mass because of sickness.)
4.) If there is a meeting with the group, act as if you’re very special so tell them it should be not early in the morning. If they ask why, then bluntly answer them that you have to attend the gym every morning. (Don’t be diffident to notify them that you do exercise because that is the initial leap of shifting your aura from a lazy man to a work-out aficionado.)
5.) Shave and try using Yoko Herbal Cream for men.
6.) Get a new haircut and new hair color (my haircut in the photo courtesy of Francis Salon fronting Chevalier School and hair color by Hortaleza in HBC).
7.) After working out, smile as much as you can because you can never smile when you enter school, facing all the quandaries in the publication.
8.) When there is a gigantic predicament, let the EIC do all the work and let him be stressed all over. However --
9.) When he can no longer handle, back him up and when your colleagues appreciated your effort, delude as if you did nothing but inside you, you are smiling because you knew you really did something. (Sometimes, secret happiness radiates from within.)
10.) Don’t mind your thesis writing subject (if you have any) but equip your self with a first-aid kit that will help patients regain consciousness and heal a conked cranium that had collapsed against cement. (At the end of the class, you might have a deficiency.)
11.) If you have an inferiority complex, “toss” it. (If you don’t have, just skip this. You can’t relate if you still read it and try to understand.)
12.) Don’t be forced to write the most sagacious column in the campus paper. (Sometimes, when everyone else tries to make sense by solving all the tribulations of the society, you’ll be notable if you write about nothing and instead, give the society a problem to solve *Chortle*.)
13.) When people praise you for the articles you’ve written and published, think of them as if the smiles in their faces are your banners (especially if you are a winner-turned-looser in a writing contest).
Now, you know the 13 ways to become as “astonishing mutant”. But hey… you would have to define “astonishing” first. If you know another definition that is not parallel with the definition that this article is tending to delineate, then write your own version.
By writing your article, you might transform your own self…. *wink*
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