The Road to Success: Gilda Nakahara’s Life

“As a deaf person in this kind of business, I am proud to say that I have crossed the border of so-called limited access. I honestly worked hard to achieve my goals. I wanted to show the world that we are not cut off from mainstream society and we are capable of regularly doing and keeping our jobs like the rest of hearing and speaking people.”(Nakahara, G., 2009).

Success against disability. Maria Gilda Quintua-Nakahara was born as deaf person but despite her disability she succeeds in life pursuing a career as a Deaf Entrepreneur. She lived in Eastern Samar but regularly travel to Manila to oversee her business in this place. She operate an internet cafe called Quintuas’s Net Cafe in her hometown San Julian, Eastern Samar, and also run M.G.L.Q. Deaf Tour Travel Agency, a travel tour business catering to deaf clients around the world which she manage online and keeps her travelling from one place to another. She established the deaf organization on her province which paved the way for the unification of all deaf in five towns of Eastern Samar: Oras, San Julian, Borongan, Taft, and Dolores. She was currently in the process of putting up the organization that will provide funding an emergency assistance for the deaf community in the Philippines.

What success means. As Nakahara did, in order to be succeed person I need to passed the wall or cut off the border of limited access. Success is in my mind, a large portion of my life spent working to become successful. I was told by an elder when I was in throughout childhood to work hard so that I can grow up and make lots of money. However, various people have different interpretations of what success means to theme, and I learned on what Nakahara’s life was success determined too as the amount of happiness one feels, and measured by social status and wealth as well on how we help and share the blessings from others the reason happiness continuously flows in our life.

Holding on vs. Letting go. I, as individual had a right to choose where to quit on my dreams and letting go, or hold on and keep moving forward. If Nakahara achieved the dreams he had despite her limited access, how I am, who I am to quite? I realized that I have limitless access, and strong enough to fight compared on the person with disabilities who committed to be successful person. Success is something that we all want to achieve in our lives. Further, hard working and being open-minded on opportunities is the key to success.

Life twists and turns. Accept the negative sides and problems. Move on and makes them inspiration to pursue. Starts building what I can... Keep moving forward...