It was around April 16,2008 that a 35 year old and 4 month married man entered the 28th floor of the IBM Plaza Building in Eastwood City in Quezon City, one of the largest cities in Metro Manila. He was met a group of people who told him about his job. The president of the company greeted him with a smile and told him about his job. He told him about how he should love his students, and how they rely on them for their education. He told him about his role in changing their life. A fire was lit under his belly, determined to do his job no matter what. Life was good.
It's now almost ten years, and he is still working in the same company. He's now in a different shift, already a father and worked the same job as he had before. However, many things happened in the course of those years. He experienced ups and downs. But before was quite different. Now, he is again all alone. A lone wolf as they would say. How did it came about to this?
See, he loved his co-workers before like family. When one of them was abducted, he always prayed that she would be released. And she did. There was also his boss that made him laugh when when things are hard. He himself also became a supervisor, even for a short period of time. Things changed, but never for the better. As the years passed, his family went away one by one, leaving him alone.
He really misses them, and there are times that he just cries. He can't leave his current job though he knows that he needs it now. He's just become a father, and he has a loving three year old daughter, of whom only in Facebook pictures does his old friends see. He is also an old worn out teacher who thrives like a mouse on a wheel. He is a but a shadow of his former self, trapped in a prison of loneliness and pain. He wishes that he could be let out.
This goes out to all my friends here in YBM PNT that have left and moved on. I cherish each and every time that I was with all of you. Life was not easy here. Hope we can talk sometime. Until then.
BRIAN LUCIANO
MARCH 23,2018
