A Scenario from a Rulebreaker’s Everyday Deviance
I’ve always hated rules. Although they say that rules are there for a purpose, oftentimes to “discipline,” “guide,” or “organize,” I still say that they go against man’s free will and condition him to think and act in a way that will put and end to the term “endless possibilities.”
Not that I’m saying that all rules should be disregarded. It’s just that we should consider the context in which the rules are applied and if they are reasonable enough for such circumstances. The last thing we want is to stand out as the rotten egg among the population, don’t we? Sabi nga ni PJ sa award-winning niyang message sa Yahoo! Groups namin, “we need to exercise our inherent rights as thinking beings.”
Living in a dorm run by nuns is the one of the biggest, funniest, and most infuriating ironies I’ve put up with in my life. A person fond of defying authority under the supervision of an overly-conservative group of people with minds more closed than a cabinet glued with Mighty Bond? Hah. Interesting clash of principles, that I can already smell. But if this particular dorm can provide the most favorable conditions as I go through my college education, then this little problem would be of no issue, right?
WRONG.
I was downloading our Microbiology lectures last week in the computer room when the superior entered and told me to turn off the aircon since I was the only one inside the room. I just nodded and nodded to what she was saying and still used the aircon even after she left. She came back a few minutes later with a serious face and asked me if I was paying for my laptop, which I really wasn’t, and told her that I borrowed it from my roommate. And I was bombarded with strings of sermon which I didn’t understand a single bit, except that I shouldn’t be using laptops even with permission, that the computer room and the internet is only for the desktop PCs, and that I should be paying P300 for the laptop if I’m bringing it here.
So I asked her why we should pay for the laptops if the owners are not allowed to use the internet.
She said that it’s the policy of this dorm and that we, as dormers, should comply to blah blah blah blah…
I asked again why it’s the dorm’s policy and what the P300 is for when we even provide ourselves with our own internet cards.
Because it’s in the RULES and we can’t do anything about it.
WHAT, for the love of God, is that kind of reason?! 
Nevermind that the powerpoint presentations you’re downloading are the lifeblood of your grades, nevermind that your most accessible source for referenced information is the WWW, nevermind that the internet in general is undoubtedly essential for your survival in this tough academic jungle. As long as you succumb to their monetary gluttony and give them a false sense of dominance just because they’re women with rosaries and veils, you’ll live.
Ah, but I am not a very giving person to people who I perceive to be… Naughty, as Santa would’ve put it.
In Nursing, every action you do should have a relevant rationale that is primarily client-centered, aseptic, and also promotes the nurse’s personal safety. You don’t do procedures and interventions just because. You have to focus on the nursing diagnosis and from there identify all the important points that need addressing. In short, everything has sense.
Now let’s go back to real life, where there is such a thing as common sense similar to the rationales in Nursing. Can someone explain to me WHERE, for the love of Enterobius vermicularis, is the sense in paying an additional P300 every freaking month for a laptop that you bring and you keep but is NOT allowed to be brought down to the computer room, connected to the internet, or borrowed even with permission? WHAT is that cursed P300 for, battery charging?! Is the towering rent, which they increased just this June, not enough for their electric and water bills?! I will NOT pay that P300 unless I know what it’s for.
I’m starting to hate nuns as much as I hate rules.
I guess I’m back to being a nocturnal surfer again, until the issue subsides and I could hog the internet connection again as much as I can.
Either that, or I get my Wi-fi ASAP.
