“In
school, we must learn the lesson first before taking the test. But in life, we
must take the test first then learn the lesson.” That’s right. Because we cannot
survive and pass the exam if we did not listen to the teacher’s lesson. And we
cannot survive life if we did not take the test. We should learn how to make
each and every day of us great, because every day is full of tasks and every
day is a surprise. We do not know what situation will going to happen next. Yet
we must fall down and learn how to survive. This was the personal profile of
one of my good classmates. She is a leader-type of person I really knew. She’s
a great leader. But even if she says that if she’s given a task then she cannot
meet the standards of those tasks, I actually do not believe that she can’t,
because I believe she can do those tasks if she kept on doing and trying. It’s
quite difficult to understand but I believe she would. Actually, she’s the
former president of our good class. She’s great in terms of leadership. So, guess
who is she?
She was a 4th year
high school student when she rode on Star City ride, which was her first time.
The Starflyer and Surf Dance, which I also considered as quite wild and
“nakakahilo” to ride on. She said that, “It was scary pero challenging”. As
what I’ve seen, she overcomes that scariest part of her life. She’s not that
scared too much, when the time comes that she would want to ride on Starflyer
and Surf Dance.
The silliest moment of her life
happened when she was still a high school student. She was also a 4th
year student that time when she has done this silliest part. It was her and her
classmates who bullied their CAT adviser because it was being biased to them.
They removed the muffler (or “tambutso” in tagalog term) of the motor vehicle
of their adviser. As a result, they have the consequence of detention for a
period of time because of what they’ve done. She had many silly moments but she
chose this one to share on me.
“Never
get discouraged when things go beyond your expectations. Always remember that
the greatest glory in life is never falling...but rising every time you fall.” If there was an
assigned task to do, she feels down most especially when the said task is quite
difficult. There are times that she cannot meet the standards that people
around was expecting her to do. This situation happened during her college
days, in their organization which is CMAS. Every time that she could not comply
with the standards, she feels disappointed to herself and at the same time she
feels like having a low self-esteem. Although she feels discouraged sometimes,
she still managed to stand every time she falls.
“When
one door of happiness closes, another door opens...but often we look so long at
the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us." Year 2008, when her
47-year old mother was diagnosed having a breast cancer. Particularly, she and
their whole family felt sad when they knew the news. It was some kind of a
heartbreaking news when you knew that your loved one especially your mother, is
suffering a disease that may cause to have a short life to live. Her mother
undergoes chemotherapy after they knew that it has a cancer. But as the saying
stated above goes, another door opens for her and their whole family. After
years that have been passed when her mom was diagnosed. For the following time,
they found out that her mother survived its disease. Recently, her mom is still
surviving cancer for five years. It only needs to have a check-up for its
maintenance. In addition to, her high school friends/barkada also fulfilled her
happiness. Another one is that, she is an athlete for table tennis of their
school then they won most of the championship games during different
competition. They were all proud on each other and at the same time they are
proud to themselves because they gave each other’s best to play the game.
“There’s
no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.” To reach our goals is
a relief, that we did our best by not engaging with wrong doings and keeping
ourselves on the right path. As a student, her goal is to finish her studies
and to graduate at the right time. In five years, She dreamed to have a job
that will establish her skills and mostly on what she learned during her school
days. After that, she also aspires to go on other country, not for the sake of
having a great job there, but for pleasure. Other than that, she wants to go
Korea, Japan and Europe including their family and her mom. She also wants to
join in an organization for advocacy against any issues like violence against
women and animal cruelty. That’s all for her goal in five years. I can see that
there’s no harm on dreaming, as long as you’re not just sitting on a chair,
waiting for your dreams to come true.
Let’s encourage one another as we
seek to stay in track. If we keep our goals before us, we will not be looking
back. In life, there are five balls to juggle—Family, Friends, Health, Work and
Spiritual Life. Only Work is made of rubber, the rest are made of glass. So,
don’t drop them. Life is not a matter of extent but it’s a matter of content.
This was a feature story of our
good classmate, Ria Elizabeth Langi. She is an 18 year old woman, studying Communication
Research at Polytechnic University of the Philippines and an aspiring person to reach her goals in life.
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