Reset: The Chronicle of My Success Foretold
RESET The Chronicle of My Success Foretold Zarena C. Hermogeno Growing up in an Asian household, I was always taught the standard goals regarding success: I need to have the affluent lifestyle, have a socially-respectable job, own a mansion and numerous cars, earn a PhD degree, have a good-looking husband and produce offsprings that would be top contenders for the next President of the Philippines. However, as my grandmother would put it “Hindi lahat binibigay ng Diyos” (everything is not bestowed onto you by God), and that life has its sneaky ways to craft your fate and question your success completely to the point that you don’t even know where to go from whichever point you are in life right now. And as all grandmothers are, she is always correct. Life so far for me was a whirlwind of unexpected twists and turns that led me through a path that neither I could not have even foretold back then. But let’s start from the beginning, shall we? Not to brag, but I was regard...
