The Great Battle is over. Or is it?
My mind is still fresh, from the moment I stepped inside our review center, up to the last day of our board exam. In the review center, you can see lots of different nursing students; each got their own unique style of studying habits. Almost everywhere you look, you see the hunger, and you smell the competition of most, if not all the nursing students who are in the review center striving to be one of the board passers with the idea of gaining another step towards the greener pasture that awaits for us nursing examinees abroad.
All of them seem to be preparing a lot, and I say a lot, just for the big day knowing after the board exam, a great battle is at last over… or so they say…
Now that the board exam is over — together with the reading of thick books, piles of handouts and answering all those mock questionnaires, sleepless nights — it’s already useless to fret whether your answers in the actual board exam to those tricky questions were right and wrong, finally I can rest even for just awhile. But somehow, there’s a part of me that won’t loosen up.
I, a student of nursing who just recently took the November 29-30 board exam, like any others, dream of a wonderful future ahead of me, but also, I am still doubtful, perhaps insecure of whether there is a future that lies in the current events happening in the in the Philippines with all the news of oversupply of nurses, the world financial crisis, scams, corruption, terrorism and things like it. Also, here in the Philippines, if you want to train in some tertiary hospitals, you still have to pay for it and after weeks of training, if you didn’t pass the training, you will not be absorbed by the hospital, together with the fees that you’ve paid. Can you just imagine, you pay for being a nurse in a hospital?
Well according to some, the health sector will not be affected by the world financial turmoil, and that’s a great relief for us in the health sector at least.
Life sure is hard, and it gets harder and harder every now and then. What we can do now is to regard this as a challenge. I mean, we cannot get everything what we want and not everything is served in a silver platter.
Like I’ve said, there’s no point in fretting right now, and the right thing to do is that we do something about it. We, not just nursing students but every responsible Filipinos, should not just be thrown away by fear of the unpredictable future, for the future really is always unpredictable. What good is it to worry when we know that it doesn’t give a damn single hour to our lives. So instead, we should build the capacity to get through this, help each other, do something, and have hope for a brighter future.
The Great Battle is not yet over, it has only just begun, and the battle of each of our own lives to achieve what we dream of amidst all the challenges, is worth fighting for!
