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I always thought that the best kind of love, the only kind of love that I deserve, is the all-consuming, burning red, I-am-nothing-without-you kind of love.
Growing up made me realize that the best kind of love is not the wildfire that razes everything in its path but the gentle love that gives life to all it touches.
The love that nurtures. The love that heals.
A love that glows, not burns.
A love that cherishes, not consumes.
A love that worships, not possesses.
To my husband, I have found that love in you.
I love you ❤️
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“You don’t find your worth in someone. You find your worth within yourself and then find someone who’s worthy of you. Remember that.”
— Unknown
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NOVEMBER 9, 2017
TESTIMONIAL DINNER SPEECH
Let me start from the beginning.
Entering UP, I never really wanted to be a CPA. I didn’t even know exactly what “accounting” was. I pursued it because it has been my family’s dream for me for the longest time I could remember, and because at that time, I didn’t know what to do with my life anyway.
By 3rd year college, I was miserable. I hated it. I was failing quizzes and exams. And it was new to me, having been an achiever all throughout elementary and high school. The more I felt frustrated by my grades and couldn’t tell my family about it because they have such expectations from me, the more I turned to debate because at least it was something I felt that I was good at.
This went on over my last years in college. Failing exams, taking removals, failing removals – it goes on and on. It’s not like I didn’t study because I knew I did. I didn’t know what I kept doing wrong. I didn’t know why I still couldn’t understand. I didn’t know where to get the same determination that my classmates had. Sometimes at 3AM before a 9AM exam, you just find yourself crying.
I didn’t blame anyone for my frustrations, and I never faulted my family for letting me take up Accountancy. At a certain point I accepted I was a mediocre student and all I could do was survive, sem after sem, and aspire to graduate on time.
I did. But that isn’t the real goal isn’t it? Not the reason why you’re still all here fighting? Because deep inside, amidst the temptations to just give up, we don’t just want that sablay. We want that title.
Around a month before leaving for review, it was like a truck hit me. It all suddenly became real to me – that I was leaving home in the pursuit of a title that is the key to my future. Honestly, I was scared because I knew I didn’t know enough at that point, and I couldn’t fathom how 5 months could be enough to relearn everything. But instead of letting my fear get the best of me, this time I was resolved to claim it. No more playing around. No matter how hard, I was going home a CPA.
Just when I thought I couldn't get any more pressured and stressed at this crucial point in my life, I lost a treasured long-term relationship. It's no secret. And no words could describe the magnitude of how devastated I was. I didn't want to eat. I couldn't find the focus to study. I couldn't think through the pain and the anger. In every way, I felt lost.
But then, in seemingly a flashing moment, I realized my dreams were independent of temporary people. I am Gabriela Echevarria, and I was going to be a CPA before the year ends, with or without a boyfriend. So I got my shit together.
But it wasn't easy. You can't be strong by tomorrow and without any help. Moving on from someone, and moving towards a goal required time, prayer, and a lot of work. And on my part, a lot of drinks. I needed to constantly remind myself that no heartbreak, no temporary person, is worth losing the CPA dream for. I wasn’t going to be a CPA for a future I envisioned with someone else… I was going to be a CPA for myself. And of course my family.
I lost so much in Iloilo but it gave me back so much more. I was at my lowest point. I lost a love I thought would stay but it was also there that I learned to love even better. Myself. My family. Old and new friends. One unexpected special person…from Davao. Sa Iloilo ako nasaktan, pero sa Iloilo din ako natututong magmahal ulit. (HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA)
The girl who boarded the plane to Iloilo is not the same girl who boarded the plane back home. Because the girl that the island met carried with her a mountain of self-doubt, whether or not she could do enough to pass the boards that October. But the girl who went back home, is someone I could say, is a girl that I actually like – stronger; knows what she deserves and will not simply settle; believes in her capability to achieve what she puts her mind into; understands that the probability of failure is always on the horizon; trusts that God has His own perfect timing; and knows that everything happens for a reason and a purpose, at the time they are supposed to happen.
If I was sitting there now with you, listening to my speech, this is what I would tell my undergrad self:
First. You are not your INCs, or your failed exams. Your future self is not defined by who you are or the level you are at right now. It is never too late for you.
Second. You have your own path, you have your own journey, and you have your own struggles. Stop comparing yourself to your classmates and stop underestimating yourself. You are stronger than this.
And, third. No matter what you're going through, no matter how insurmountable it seems, and no matter how small you feel in the circumstances you are facing...find comfort in people who would support you unconditionally.
The silver lining of my journey is that success tastes sweeter now after everything I've been through. Through it all -- the cluelessness with which I entered UP, the failures in undergrad, heartbreak, homesickness, unwanted plot twists in life, but as well as all the happiness and the blessings -- CPA 2017 is real for me. I claimed it.
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