Nobody But You.

There's a TV commercial for an electronics shop in Toronto called Bad Boy in which the owner summons people to buy from him and blurts out Nooobody!  He is saying nobody can beat his prices.

And one time, I heard my two year old nephew Ben Ben singing "Nobody, nobody but you." And I heard the same song over and over again from radio stations while driving around Manila streets one day last September.

Now there's a film titled Nobody, Nobody but Juan, a Dolphy starrer.

It seems the word nobody is a buzz word these days.

I became a nobody almost two years ago.  That was when I lost my quite comfortable paying job in which I toiled and developed a profit centre from scratch.  My boss, a British-Canadian who was new at the executive post preferred to side with an Anglo instead of me, an Asian.

I could have brought a suit against the organization but I figured I was not happy anymore being a team member in a non-profit which was over layered and acting like a spoiled brat within the non profits.

That incident worked to my advantage.  My stress level went down from 100 to 10, I became better prepared for a surgery and I re-discovered creative writing. In short, I became a somebody.

The period of recovery wherein I was a nobody was a bitter pill to swallow. But in the end of the "nobody phase," I became a better person - happier, more enlightened and more lovable and more loving. Thus, I am thankful for being a nobody.

Things started to happen. Even on the financial side. 

One unforgettable incident of 2009 came to surface when during my "nobody days" I became a somebody by chance.  I began to notice the wonder of books and took up serious reading, and most amazing of all, I started to dream again. I became seventeen once more and started to believe that dreams can become reality again.

It was randomness happening all over.  It created, it got things suspended, it animated, it turned things upside down. And as random as it is, it could decide one's fate without one even knowing it.

The year is coming to its close in two days.  That's why this post is a kind of summation. 

I was watching the Metro Manila Film Festival Awards last night and heard almost all awardees thanked God for having given them the trophy.  

Though without any film to boost, I,  too thank the Creator for having blessed me through these years.