The preceding statement was given as a concluding portion in a speech by one of the new members of the student organization which I advise & coach in the University of Baguio - the Soapbox Union (it is a public speaking & debating club). This kept reverberating in my mind since I left the room where we met purposely to evaluate the speech. Till this time (I mean... the speech was delivered just an hour and a half ago), I can feel the impact of that meaning-pregnant and emotion-laden utterance from the young man who shared it to us. I can't help but wonder (and this makes my curiosity become the more itchy, hmmm...) what could have moved him to say those words... In fact, he is stereotyped as a jolly, sort of easy-go-lucky, often light-mooded person who most of the time turns a seemingly silent moment into a time of boisterous laughter and fun.
In my cognitive gymnastics (as in I am really philosophizing (") on this right now), my memory bank spills over righ in front of me a controversial (most of the time subjective) line of thought which relates smiles to tears. The saying goes: "Happy faces do not always mean dry pillows at night."
Source of photo: http://pookieart.blogsome.com/category/from_the_archives/
Furthermore, my emotive memory flashes on this computer screen the very femininely written long hand of one of my students in Sociology about her personal view of what a family should be. Her last line in that essay read like this: "...I feel incomplete everytime family is discussed." Oh! It really made my heart ache... my soul hurt... and my spirit down... I am convinced that the sketch above catches the emotions i am having right now, hehehehe. Well, I do not know the story of this young lady's family life, but I felt that she went through the roughest of times so far in terms of her family's relationship web. (Honestly, I would like to dig deep into it so that I will understand why she wrote that! Wouldn't you if you were in my shoes?)
Be that as it may, what can this lowly instructor do but to listen to the speech and just content himself with reading the lines in that essay?
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ReplyDeleteIra, that was the best i can do... maybe for now...
ReplyDeleteMalaking bagay na po yan para sa akin,well in fact, kau lang naman po ang naging concern sa akin..lalo na po sa mga ganitong bagay..kahit po naguguluhan na ako, I'm trying all my best to understand everything kasi nga po naniniwala naman ako na anjan si god para sa akin..
ReplyDeleteThank you very much,,Godbless:)
keep hoping, keep believing, keep fighting! God never sleeps...
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