..Patience..

You never know the true meaning of the word until you've experience what it takes to be patient. Just this morning, I went to the municipal office of Imus to register as a first time voter. We got there at exactly 8:00am. Everything went well at the signing of the forms, because our (as quoted as) "future captain" help us.
Then the wait start. You'll wait until your name or number is called. Easy, right??.. That's what we thought. But obviously what we thought was wrong. Our waiting begun.. minute per minute.. the clock was ticking. An hour pass.. 2 hours pass.. Nothing was moving.. 3.. I felt so bored, I regret leaving my phone in our house.. 4.. It's already 12 in the afternoon.. lunchtime.

We get out of the building to eat our lunch at a nearby cafeteria.

Then we went back inside, there's still a bunch of people waiting for their turn. It's as if the time had frozed and nobody moves. We still patiently wait. Again an hour pass. "Hoy! Bakit tumigil n kayo sa pagtawag ng pangalan?! Andami pa'ng tao dito oh " an (almost) angry man has spoken from the back. True enough, the calling of names and numbers stop for about an hour. Many people are ranging because they don't understand why it's taking so long for their names to ba called. A few people I've spoken to said that they've been here since 5 in the morning and yet their names are haven't been called yet. They're confused at what was happening. Many opinions are blasting out from the mouths of the people. I understand them because of all this time of waiting, many things also run in my minds. We don't know what's happening inside and what's taking them so long. Until at exactly 1:30pm, they started to call names again. I'd open my ears widely for my name. Until, I've heard that sweet sound, "Silla, Carisse Ann.. Silla, Carisse Ann". I swear to you I'd never heard my name sound so sweet. I immediately raised my hand to show that I'm there. They gave me my registration form and told me to fall in line. Again, the agony of waititing. But looking around in the crowd of people that had'nt still called, I feel so lucky. Yes! I thought to myself. Finally, the long wait is almost over.

Then finally my turn came, when I got inside, I never thought that the office would look this busy. Everyone's been moving. Nobody had took their breaks. But there's still a pile of reg. form sitting on their desk, it's like it's not going to end. When you're outside, you do not know what was happening inside, your almost thinking that the officers are being lazy and taking their time on their work. But the reality is, it's a different world inside. And all it takes to understand that is patience. Patience to wait for your turn. And trust me, when you get your turn it was one of the most sweetest reward you'll ever gonna get from being patient.

*/And finally, I'm a registered voter!! Bow!! All smiles:))*/ <3