Back in high school, my friends and I would frequent a computer shop in a back alley near UPV-Iloilo called Backyard.Com (or simply Backyard or BCOM for short). We were at BCOM everyday after school (never ~during~ school because that’s skipping classes and skipping classes is bad… stay in school kids), whether to play PC games like DOTA (DOTA kid forever!!!) or just to hang out with UP High schoolmates and other people.
One Saturday, me and some of the men went to school for extra-curricular nonsense (it was common for us to go to school on Saturdays because we were dedicated to education 😇). After all the school stuff was taken care of, we went To Robinson’s (there was only one Rob at the time) but quickly got bored.
We decided then to just go home. As we were riding a jeep along Valeria Street, we saw a sign that said “PBCOM”!!!! It obviously meant Philippine Bank of Commerce but we read it as “Pa-BCOM!!” or “go to BCOM!!!”.
So that’s exactly what we did. We got off the jeep when it passed by UPV then hauled ass all the way to BCOM and played DOTA until sunset.
It probably wasn’t that, but we still took that bank sign as a… uh… sign from the universe as an answer to our weary question about what to do.
Next time you see signs, don’t question it, just go with it. Maybe it will lead you to your life’s calling… or it could be that you’re just reading into things way more than you should.
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