Before the March lockdown, I was sitting in one afternoon class, my last for the day. My course, being in social sciences, had—and still has—a lot to do with the nuances of language.
Suddenly—and I was completely caught off guard—my teacher told me, “Aaron, I can see it in your eyes. You want to run for a leadership position in your org. It’s just a waste of time.”
This was in the presence of my classmates. I responded, “We actually create articles and we publish them online.”
These articles weren’t just about a particular event or issues. At that time, I was a writing editor of Ateneo Celadon, the Ateneo de Manila University’s premier Chinese-Filipino student organizati…
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