The Pastor Driver

I've been working at this company since March of this year. I know it's not an excuse but work really has been the main reason why this site hasn't been updated for months now (the last entry was May...my gosh!).

So there...for those of you who don't know, I am a headhunter. Yes, in this business, I try to play God and people are the pieces in this board game called "corporate life". Sounds too powerful and all-knowing but placing people in companies changes the world (one way or the other). It's like planting a seed (be it a good one or a bad one)--it's changing the status quo of a subset of the universe.

Life is all about chain reactions...we might not notice the change directly and immediately but sooner or later the past will haunt the present and the future. It's paying it forward. It's domino effect. That's life.

Have you ever had that ride to work that something out of the extraordinary happens and you end up having a different day? I had that experience weeks back. I rode a cab and the driver turned out to be a pastor. I'm not highly religious and that fact didn't really excite me--I thought that he would state biblical passages (in Filipino) from Las Pinas to Makati, but he ended up relaying enlightening anecdotes one after the other that I just listened, nodded, reflected. He achieved his goal! He was talking about relationships and how to have a successful marriage. Applicable...I'm engaged (pretending you don't know and I have to explain). By the time I got down at the corner of 7-11 and as I was walking to the office, I know there's something different; not that my life has changed in an instant but I saw things in a different light--I was still pondering on the messages left by the pastor driver. Nice. Enlightening. Life changing.