My Favorite Success Shirt

This is actually my favorite success shirt.. why? because everytime i wear this shirt all my interviews were a success..

I hope i am not bragging but, this shirt means a lot to me.. let me point out the details.

First, i used this shirt way way way back in November 2000. during my job interview for Converse (the shoe brand) I used this shirt with my maong pants.. coz supposedly, I went to the office just to drop my resume, then all of the sudden the manager Carmen Co went to the room and started interviewing me.. on the spot. She asked me to be back the next day to take my exam and whallah! I was accepted. I worked for Converse for 4 years and handled the accounts and marketing part of the company.. it was tough but I enjoyed my stay there.

Secondly, I used this shirt when I applied as a Provincial Delegate to the National Youth Parliament on December 2002, I applied with my roomate and both of us were interviewed on the same day by the officials of the National Youth Commission.. the following month, I got a letter stating I was accepted to the convention and my roomate did not make it. sad :-(

Lastly, I used this shirt when I applied for the Ship for Southeast Asian Youth Program on the year 2003. Believe me, this interview was the longest interview in my whole life! I was interviewed like an hour and 30 minutes.. I was dehydrated when I went out of the room. Sick. The following month, I got a letter explaining that I made it and I will be representing region 7 along with a fellow delegate from Foundation University.

I would say this shirt was with me throughout my journey in life.. the shirt has a sentimental value and much that I want to preserve it, I decided to give it away.. to somebody who could actually still use it..

It is really hard to let go of something that has so much value in our life but sometimes we have to let go of the things that value to us. and yes, I am letting go.. A simple symbolism that in life, we get to have things that are seem to important for that moment but realizing that we have already exhausted the use of this, we have to give it to someone who could actually still use it, and put more value into it.

This might be a simple shirt, but the meaning is so much more.

Goodbye shirt.

And thanks for the memories.