Franz Marie Cruz’s Diary

Do you believe in fairytales? I do and I know one that is unfolding right in front of my eyes. This one has all the ingredients of a true fairytale, well maybe except for the pea, frog or evil stepmom. It’s of my friend, G. We’ve known each other for only 5 years (not much really, compared to my other friends who I’ve known for more than half my life). We started out as groupmates early in first year of med school and later on became sisses by choice. We both live in QC and we shared those long rides to and from parties which were the perfect time to bond and I consequently got to know her story.

She admits she started from not-so-great beginnings. Her mother was forced to raise her and her younger sister all by herself by by selling jewelries. It was a simple and happy life. Her mother eventually married and she was loved by both her mom and her stepdad.

She got a good education. But she was an exceptional student. She finished her college education with a degree in PT. She then ranked #2 in her PT boards. She started med school and finished on top of her class. She then placed 2nd on the medical board exams. But there’s more. This girl, the princess in this fairytale, is a dancer and a model. She didn’t spend the 5 years of med life just studying. She is a choreographer, front row and center dancer of our school’s dance troupe, a model (and I don’t mean a role model, which she actually also is, but a catwalk/runway/clothes model), and a very active member and prominent figure of our sorority. She is beauty and brains and grace.

But of course, the princess, just like all princesses in other fairytales, just can’t be only about beauty and brains, she has to have a pure heart and a good soul and everything in between. And this one does. She is a good friend, a kind and compassionate person with no mean or spiteful bone in her body. With all her blessings, she never brags but is only thankful and more than willing to share them with people around her.

But every fairytale has to have a prince in it too. And so, to whisk this princess to her happy ending is a prince of her perfect match. They are to be married late this year after a whirlwind romance. The story of which may be the very core of this fairytale. I’ve been reminiscent and I could remember very vividly her reluctance on going out to with him for the first time on a blind date arranged by common friends, who have already tried to set her up with 2 other dates previously. I encouraged her to go, remembering distinctly saying, maybe third time is the lucky charm (or something like it). Anyway, they did go out, were inseparable 3 weeks later and got engaged less than a year later. They’re now planning this magnificent wedding on November this year.

It’s kinda amazing to see these things happen in front of your eyes, however jaded one can become. Galing lang, some people do get what they deserve and this girl is getting just what she deserves and so much more. Don’t you just love to be able to tell a fairytale, especially one that is very much real?

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