we're all a bunch of extraordinary people.

When one seeks normalcy these days, i think it's very hard to come by. Especially in my life. In school, i know a lot of people who can't be categorized under normal in terms of their talents and of their decision-making. I mean, there are speakers, writers, musicians, etc..... our class moderator is more than just a teacher, he's a brother (soon-to-be priest). my club moderators are not-so-normal as well. one is an award-winning, eagle-scout producing expert and pioneer while the other takes pride, joy and credit for taking my ideas like the website, the name of the club, the general leadership and didn't even give me an award for such undertakings (and also come up with extraordinary illogical excuses and incoherent lies). Both contrast each other like yin and yang and both are out of the ordinary. Good thing there are a lot of teachers that don't belong to the category of the latter club moderator and i am extraordinarily thankful for that. That some would even go to extraordinary means of giving me some articles to appease my anger for such injustices (yes, even in a sectarian school, extraordinary things like this exists.

I also have extraordinary friends in scouting. My oxygen tank nearly expired during my stint as a member of the scout international service team because of my barely-speaking-english-but-extraordinarily-became-IST vietnamese friend who didn't understand fully the meaning of "If I PULL THE STRING TWICE, PULL ME UP" (since my task was to dive and place a marker in a specific degree at a specific distance and i was in a depth wherein if i swim upwards, i'll get the bends). I had a really intense verbal argument with my extraordinarily nitpicking Eagle scout friends just so i can get to represent the Philippines. I also have an extraordinary japanese friend that chats with me in Spanish and I reply in chavacano. Also extraordinarily cool Aussie and Hong Kong friends.

I have an extraordinarily existing relationship with my musical homies in Zamboanga as well. The extraordinarily gifted people I once worked with in the Orchestra and how they accepted me even if I have an extraordinary difficulty in reading sheet music. The extraordinary conductors that are either extraordinarily passive or extraordinarily energetic that they seem to be epileptic.

This blog is written by extraordinary people too. One is a Social Studies teacher who's currently taking up law, had multiple courses in his credit and has a master's degree or two. Another is an academic juggernaut who, to my knowledge, became HS class valedictorian and is now in UP Diliman. The other would be an overseas student that's gifted in her writing abilities. There's also yours truly, a person hindered by crappy penmanship and uses this blog as an extraordinary means of literary exercise and stress relief.

I also have an extraordinary God who convinced me into believing that there's no such thing as Karma or "Gaba". Good things and bad things happen not because it's a test of faith or because i've done something bad or good in the past. They just happen as a result of cause and effect or that they happen because we're human and as such we're bound to live imperfect albeit extraordinarily amusing lives. There's ups and downs. Like a roller coaster. It would be super boring if it's just a straight ride right? Extraordinary as He is, He gave us all an extraordinary life filled with extraordinary people. (that may be one of the reasons why Jesus didn't come down the cross to prove that He was really divine. I mean, if He came down, no one would have an extraordinary faith in an extraordinary God. He showed His divinity extraordinarily through his teachings of love more so that our FEAR of God became LOVE of God. Very extraordinary).

So i hope with this blog post, you will be inspired to see the extraordinary things that people do or just their own basic "extraordinary-ness".

Normalcy and perfection sucks so let's all think positively and live an extraordinarily imperfect life.