Writing of Noel Taboy - SJA Batch 87 - Bagabag Nueva Vizcaya
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| Noel Taboy as a Little Boy |
As a little boy, I grew up in the farm, and I thought I would see horizon of
greens that has no end. Time came that I need to leave my farm world for my
cognitive development to face the true world's knowledge that I
can't find while staying in the farm. So, for a total of 14 long years
sitting on desks and arm chairs with teachers I owed so much for their timeless
characters to look upon, they became my career influence.
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| Noel as a Teen |
Undecided for what
direction to follow, I took a rest for awhile and found my feet on soft
ground realizing on what road to take during my college years. Halfway on
my options to choose, I had to finish my studies because the land can
wait. I was moved about that I wanted to be like my teachers and through the
course of destiny, it did happen.
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| Noel as a Teacher |
Decisively creating my own time line to pursue my chosen profession, I
focused much on my work as a classroom teacher. It's a long twenty
years working with the kids in the school where my life changed from a
carefree bachelor to a father of two. Reaching places of the nation's
groups of islands during our annual trips made me compare the crops and
the urge to grow them in my farm someday was a relentless challenge. It never
crossed my mind to go farther in my teaching career for it may hinder me from
stepping out soon. As planned, I would leave teaching after two decades of
dedicated teaching and somehow made the school kids face life of their own.
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| Noel Students |
Giving up the work which I passionately worked for was as hard as ripping my life apart. It was not my lifelong dream though, and staying a minute more to that profession could alter the fate of my dream. I need to reattach the rope's end to the part separated by more than a third of a century leaving that rendezvous of my childhood back in place. I can no longer resist the feeling that haunted me to go back to farming as promised to my self where there is no more time for retirement.
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| Noel dilly dallying |
And as of now, here I am, I can go to where the moment takes me. The lush of
green landscape makes my day and the nature's elements like rain and sunlight
are friendly buddies. My chosen haven can no longer be working only with
species of my own kind but with nature of endless possibilities and take
chances for opportunities, elsewhere, it would benefit mankind. For every
success that came along, setbacks became a friendly foe making me stronger to
push through and stand firm to my purpose.
God, for all I know, can see me through from heaven to my
workplace separated by thin layers of air. I should thank the
countless blessings that I have to receive and not the prayers that were
not granted. He knows best and good things come at the right time. Working in
the same ground where I grew up is the mystical bond between me and the farm I
am working on right now. Finally, the stars are aligned to my work
interest and the nature of fulfillment for that same child in me.
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| Noel Taboy & Family |
Carpe diem,
Noel Taboy
