Destination Unknown

The yearbook writeup for my friend, Larry Evangelista, goes like:

"If you see an intelligent-looking, Harry Potter look-alike wearing a LAPAGAYO shirt along Velasco, that’s Larry. Truly a born fighter, losing isn’t an option for him. Despite the fact that he’s known for his sarcastic yet funny remarks, he is still a dependable friend to everyone. A math lover since grade school, he also loves reality TV and videogames. He’s also a very active student, and most of all, a trustworthy friend. He’s truly an engineer to look out for."

The reason why I’m saying this is because just yesterday, I heard from a few of his friends that they consider this writeup beautiful. So, yeah, that’s cool, except they asked me a question I completely have no idea how to answer.

"Weren’t you the one who have written those?" asked Robert.

"Huh, since when?" retorted I.

"You don’t remember? How could you? The yearbook is like, the summary of a person’s milestone of his college career. This means whatever is written there is something that person will be remembered in DLSU, forever. And you have no idea you were responsible for Larry’s writeup?" lectured Corrine, complemented with a wry smile.

"Uh, no?" a confused me replied while almost scratching his head..

Has something similar ever happened to you? You said, did, wrote, or kicked something, and few days later you have no idea you’ve done something of that sort, yet everyone else seem to remember?

I’m not speaking only in terms of something wonderful you may have done. At certain point of our life, we may have said something that’s completely foot-in-mouth (i.e., completely tactless). We have no idea we ever said something of that sort, but people remember, took offense, and since then label you as the loud mouth who said something completely tone deaf.

We may lose awareness of our actions. People, however, do not. What this means is that there is not a single minute when we should act merely on whim, without consideration of what others may feel. We have to give thought to whatever it is we may end up doing.

:rollseyes:

But while I’m on the verge of being preachy (if not already), I still have one question: Did I really write those?

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