There is a gap in the sky that trees can't reach

The sky is colored gray, not the usual hue I was born to see. While I am typing this, a class is going on and I am left in my own little room against this rainy Tuesday morning.

I wonder what's happening above, whether the gods are crying while seeing my fellow countrymen kill each other or whether these little drops of rain are just the stars that usually shine bright in the night. But I am wrong!

I wonder. If all the people in the world thinks like what I am doing, then probably, most probably, there would be no room for any argument. In doing so, wars would not exist and people have the right to create vivid imageries of their own reasoning. There is a gap in the sky that trees can't reach, while humans have gaps due to their own thinking. People hate each other because they love it, and not because they hate it. Others pretend that they are somebody but when viewed from up above, we are all equal.

Then I wonder again. If we all think like there are always two choices in life---between good and bad---then the world will be a safe place to live in. But I think others are not thinking like I am. Once the news featured a young man molesting a year old child to death, and left the poor body below a ram-shackled van. He did what he wanted, and surely there is no second choice in doing so. His carnal desires were fulfilled but what's left is the death of a young child.

People don't think like I am. I am not bragging but I am telling the truth. The world is a melting pot of several organisms whose only purpose is to survive. Since the fittest of all survives, others tend to think the easiest choice they could grab without minding the consequences that follow.

Whether it's good (I hope!) or bad (I hope not!), let us all think like tomorrow will always bring us to a new day. Gracias people. Gracias.

Rude People You’ll Meet on Earth

 

Let’s face this fact: We have all the rights to become who we are; yet we fail to recognize other’s rights when we hit them point-blank with ours. We act because we want to without knowing that we commit the rudest flaw in the foible part of being a human.

Why you gotta be so rude?

With billions of people on earth right now, certainly there would be billions of ways of becoming rude. The place we’re living (or working—for my part) is a melting-pot of people who have no intention of getting along with others, and whose only purpose in life is to ruin someone else’s peace of mind. They pester potentially un-armed weaklings forcing the latter to subside or fly away, thus throwing sensibility to the wind.

Don’t you know I’m human too? 

Rude people pay no attention of their action—mean or rude action for that matter—and constantly do it whenever or wherever they want to. Take John’s part as an example. This bloke has seen the rudest ways of how people act when put into a room of not their own. As a high school teacher, John (not his real name) is being disturbed by thoughts of lost scissors, stolen light bulbs, gone away brooms, dirty classroom and even, untidy chalk and whiteboards—all of these done by the Insensitive Boarders (IBs).

The IBs also do not care if they hurt someone, because what they are after to is their own benefit. Just selfish imbeciles! Gone were the days that John feels that all is well after the IBs started boarding near his room. And gone were the days of a trash less classroom and clean lavatories because these things now only exist on his mind—right after what has happened to a commotion of used panty liners.

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To all the IBs in the world, take Magic’s Rude as your theme song.

Ills Outweigh Thrills: The 7 Deadly Sins of a Filipino Teacher

Education, one of the basic needs of man, is undeniably an inevitable tool to combat the hardships of life and the world in general. Truly, no man on this planet would even dare not to go to school and opt to learn the thrusts of reading, writing and arithmetic. Education is a vital part of our existence and essence as a human being—whose intellect and rational understanding is way far than those of other organisms in the Animal Kingdom. Through education we learn to envision ourselves in the future, soar the pinnacle of success, attain perfection and even forge our dreams to come true.

Education is a prime commodity to save ourselves from the bounds of ignorance and help us discover the life and the world given by the Creator. Truth be told, we are just like an empty cup waiting to be filled with experiences and knowledge when we were born. Now this is where the real essence of education plays its part, for education is filling a cup with useful things and not just letting the cup to do magic on its own. My friends, there is no magic in education, but an interplay of values such as patience, love, understanding, care, commitment, passion and dedication among others. We learn through our experiences, by observing and in going to formal education!

Above all, we could not take into consideration the humongous help given by our parents who were our first teachers. They taught us how to walk and utter words such as “Mama” and “Papa.” Our second parents, our primary, secondary and tertiary teachers, whose cunning and wise advice helped us reach our goal. Whatever you may call them; they are the unsung heroes of our time. Our teachers! 

They wear those programmed uniforms from Mondays to Fridays and guide us in forming the premises of our understanding towards learning. Indeed, teachers serve as a vital instrument in formal education for they do not only teach us the basics of the three Rs, but they also allow us to strengthen our values and achieve things which we think are way beyond our imagination. 

What would the world be without these unsung heroes? Will there be doctors, engineers, computer programmers, pilots, armies, priests and nuns without teachers? Will we attain the life we have now without their help? Will we help our nation and the world rise from the economy if not for the sincere advice of our teachers before? These questions are just few if I’ll tell the limitless capabilities of a teacher. As the saying goes “Teaching is the only profession that teaches all the other profession,” which I for one of the many who have been touched by this line, would definitely agree.

However, the turn of fate has been changed. We see the world in chaos where people are tempted to steal your wallet if you give them the opportunity to do so. We are living in a devil-may-care environment where peace is farfetched. We keep on arguing things for we think that we are already the most learned organism. We love to fight and to corrupt someone else’s idea. We have lost our patience, our creativity, our love for other people and the things that God has created, and above all, to ourselves and to God. We see people killing each other. These individuals have lost everything that they have learned within the four walls of the classroom!

Most people forget to read the Bible thus they hastily go to the wrong path. Most forget how to write pleasant words so in return, a verbal joust of disparaging remarks were fired like cannonballs. Others have put arithmetic in oblivion that is why they even steal from someone else’s pocket even if theirs is already full. We have lost our values. We have degraded ourselves. And considerably, the most affected individual when blaming of the aforementioned takes places… is the teacher.

What did your teacher teach you? Did they shift from their realistic teachings to being an idealistic one? Did they teach you bad deeds? Where there instances when their actions do not mirror what they teach? Follow what I say; don’t follow what I do. This is hypocrisy if this comes from their mouth. 

The teacher really has a direct effect on the development of the individual. Imagine this: an academic school year covering at least 40 weeks (that is 200 days) of meetings in the classroom where teaching and learning occurs. Imagine if the teacher espouses her ugliest behavior within these days. Imagine if the teacher gives her lousiest performance ever due to old age, laziness, or inadequate knowledge. Try to think if no learning occurs within these days and just mere humiliation and terrorism. Imagine if nothing noteworthy happens during these days.

Imagine if the teacher is useless.

Counting Patience

"Lately I been, I been losing sleep 

Dreaming about the things that we could be

But baby, I been, I been prayin' hard

Said no more counting dollars

We'll be counting stars

Yeah, we'll be counting stars."

I don't know the reason why I deleted my posts, but I definitely know why I have been away from blogging. The pressure is ON again as I start my life as a teacher—this time as a teacher-adviser of the most populated class in the school. This is a task that will surely measure my ability as a teacher...and I have been losing my patience lately. 

Adios!

SYL Camp

The two legs of the camp are finally over. Yes! And by now, we'll be going to Batangas for the Luzon leg. Hope this will spark a new beginning in there, as we "plant seeds of hope" to the future leaders of today's generation--just like what we did to the two major islands of the Philippines.