Gem's Insights

“Lord, give me a boyfriend, pleaseeeeeeee….” I was 15 then and I still had no boyfriend. I belonged to NBSB club – No Boyfriend Since Birth! My life was going well though, I was getting A’s in school, and yes, I had boys as friends but never a boyfriend!!! Oh I had fun memories with boys.. I had this neighbor who was my long time crush, he’s just so good-looking.. I really liked him!!! So, I went to this very small store in our subdivision, and as I was walking, minding my business, singing and humming.and then I looked up.. OMG, my long time crush was staring at me with smile on his face.. my heart thumped so fast that when I took another step towards him, my slipper slipped off my feet!!! I was so embarrassed, but to show him how confident I was, I continued singing and humming as I went back to get my slippers! :0 One more, when I was a freshman in high school, I met this senior guy, that every time he’d see me, he’d tease me to his friend, who’s also a senior! There’s this one time...

Have you ever experienced being pressured by your relatives and friends to enter into a relationship already because YOU are getting older and no one’s courting you yet??? As if by that act, men would come and court you? As if it wasn’t your all-day no, all-year long prayer – “Lord, give me a man to love, and who will love me back!” and yet, still there’s none! I graduated high school and college and had not a boyfriend! Very focused on my studies, and knowing how my parents are working for my education – I graduated Cum Laude.. but I have no boyfriend!:) It may be just me feeling the pressure every time, relatives, would ask if I have a boyfriend already and that it’s about time I have one.. and I would unconsciously come out with all the excuses about studies and all, face the mirror and see a beautiful swan, but men maybe seeing otherwise!!! It’s funny now, looking back, how every Lenten season, our family would do “Visita Iglesia” and to all the churches that we would visit, my p...