JADED

            I have always been enrolled in different Catholic schools since I started studying at the age of 5. Aside from my mother, my teachers and nuns from the school taught me prayers to communicate with God. We would start and en d each class with a prayer (excluding the morning prayers done during the morning assembly) and pray the rosary every Wednesday morning. We celebrate mass every first Friday of the month and during important occasions of the school.

            I have nothing against what they make us do. I am really into it actually. Aside from the leisure of less class hours, it makes me practice my religion since I am not really active in Church.

            We have Religion and GMRC classes twice and once a week respectively. The life and death of Jesus Christ, the Sacraments and the history of Religion are what my teachers repeatedly discussed all throughout my high school years as they try to imbibe morality and values in our minds.  They teach us what is right and wrong not only in the eyes of God, but in the eyes of society as well.  We were always in a close watch as they observe our every move. A simple mistake can mean a long sermon from the principal or the prefect of discipline if you are lucky, suspension if otherwise.

            They would dictate what we ought to do and not to do. Skirts should be at least two inches below the knee, no dangling earrings, blue, white and black are the only allowed colours of hairclips to be used, in short — they dictate our every move. Very little freedom is given to us.

            I remembered they used to forbid us of having boyfriends and girlfriends because they are pointing out that we were still too young back then to be committed in a relationship. I agree on this because I believe that only a few relationships work in an early age. But, the nuns were the one who shows us the true art of flirting. Every time a priest comes over our school, the nuns would ogle at him and treat him with exuberance. Every time they do this, thoughts like ‘they are flirting with the priest’ would run in the back of my mind. It seems like what they’re doing contradicts everything that they teach us.

….tinatamad na ko tapusin. hehehe..