It was 2015, when I was in college, I stayed at home and watched Miss Universe 2015. This beauty contest is a big deal here in the Philippines. Everyone didn't attend their class just to watch "Miss U".
Our representative that time is Pia Alonzo Wurtzbach. She is an actress but not so famous. Our countrymen were not happy when she won the Binibining Pilipinas, the pre-pageant for Miss Universe. They expected another candidate to be a representative. She joined three times in Binibining Pilipinas before she won.
When Manny Pacquaio got lost in his fight, Pia tweeted in twitter that "Don't worry" because she will get the crown. Then netizens were starting to bash her. They said she was boastful to herself. "So many more deserving representative than you before but they never won the crown. How can you win it?" No one believed her before that she would win.
I saw many comments that said "If Pia will win, I will drink urine." Some of the comments expected Colombia to have a back to back crown. So Pia was impossible to win.
While, watching my dad guessed that Pia would win but I just shrugged. I can really see that Pia was so far from Pia as a candidate of Binibining Pilipinas but not enough to win the crown because we're not latina and many people expected Miss Colombia will win the crown.
Then they announced that Pia was the first runner up and Miss Colombia won. We felt sad but accepted our loss. Then surprisingly, the host apologized and explained that he switched his announcement. That Pia won the crown and not Miss Colombia. That time, I don't know if I will be happy or not. But We were happy with Pia and mad with the host.
Then our countrymen were happy welcoming her in our country. Many of them are saying "Proud to be Pinoy". The haters became supporter when she won the crown.
"I'm confidently beautiful with the heart" this line was mentioned in her Q and A.
But I write this article not because of boasting about Pia who won the crown but by telling the story of Pia who was bashed and failed many times. However, she never gives up. She didn't mind what people said to her. She was happy that when she said she won Miss Universe 2015 she never in her imagination. Pia is an unabashed girl fighting for her dreams.
If you know that you never do something bad to everyone while chasing your dream don't listen to the people who said negative things about you to put you down. Just listen to your heart of what you are chasing for. Failure is your lesson so don't be discouraged of what you're doing right now. You don't know your bashers will be your fan someday.
