It has been almost five years since i last sat at the clinic of my dear Alma Mater with our Nurse Emie...
Headache... stomachache... toothache... all the aches in the world come out just to be able to skip classes... she immediately recognizes who's really ill from those whose just pretending... some students would love to make tambay at the clinic because we had a friendly friend nurse there... if you're sick, you can just take a nap... and voila! skipped Math easy!
hehe...
During those high school years, i have made friends with a lot of people and one of them is of course Ma'am Emily.. i've long been scribbling letters to form words... and composing those words to make up a sentence.. and sentences to express a hearts thought but only recently did i fully understand the meaning of the word V U L N E R A B L E...
Human as i am, i can be susciptible to attacks in whatever form...
In a hush, i remembered the poem i wrote for her... i used the word in its opposite meaning then... i shivered... because it's just now that i realized she was sad that time... i could have sensed but she hides her pain so deep i can't dig it.. :)
We can be vulnerable only if we let it rule us... I have been ruled many times... ruled by sadness..pain.. suffering..
But vulnerability could also mean that we're just human... we also get hurt... we could feel what others feel.. we're never numb...
This is one great lesson i have learned from a friend who also served as one of my mentors... thank you...
