A Woman with Faith

By: Paul John Madera



“A drop of water falls in the lake has no identity, but when it falls on a leaf of a lotus, it shines like a pearl.”

This is the word coming from a simple grade school teacher whom I interviewed. She lived her life as a devoted 1st grade teacher at ADT Montessori School having a loveless life at the moment. At first it didn’t bother her even after her first major broke up from her first boyfriend years ago, but as she is turning 27 a couple of months from now she felt this melancholy that what would love offer her soon?? She said that life for her doesn’t start at 40; it starts at 27, because it is the crucial part for a person if he or she already had that someone to settle down with.
In her case she still has no boyfriend yet. And she feels like she was being left out by the world especially upon knowing her difficulty physically from her gynecologist. She has poly-cystic ovaries which lead to severe infertility upon reaching the age of 30. She also has to maintain her normal weight because a certain decrease or increase in her weight will result to difficulty in conceiving a child. This reasons triggered her to be more worried about her future.
As I asked her despite of this situation she had, would she still consider love in choosing the one she’ll going to share her entire life with??, She said Yes. “It would be a miserable life having a husband without even a single child, but I think it’s more miserable to have a family without love binding me and my beloved half” This is what she told me as a following statement from her big YES. In this sense she proved me that effort is important in achieving what you want but knowing where to exert your effort makes a difference.

This woman whom I shared a precious conversation with knows how life works for her. That may be a reason why until at the age of 27 and with a treat to her future, she still manages to be single just to wait for the right man whom God created for her. And this woman is Miss Jenalene Latonio, a teacher, a woman with faith for real love to find her and my cousin.