BEST TIME & PLACE TO RETIRE

Writing of Noel Taboy - SJA Batch 87 - Bagabag Nueva Vizcaya

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Noel Taboy & Family

Carpe diem,


Noel Taboy