Unfolding

             Thinking has to do with mastery of language and Heidegger once said that “language is the house of being” and being is because of thinking. I have listened to a lot of people lately who are already in college but the problem is “Are they really in college?”. I kept on reflecting why thinking ever since is one of the major problems of human beings and maybe it is right to question Aristotle’s claim of man being a rational animal or it is right to say that others are not even human beings to begin with. English is not the measure of one’s intelligence; however, some people are plagued by a disease that even their own language they do not have the words to express for the sake of conversation and being understood.             Having known also Habermas’ Theory of Communicative Action , it is a presumption according to him that there should be rationality among human beings so that t...

“Once more, the apparently contrary emotions of joy and sorrow have been fused, so that the one, far from undoing its opposite, reinforces it, becomes an element in its full expression. Each new joy is the crown of its predecessor, so that emotion itself is related to the inclusive effect of majesty; at the same time , this joy expresses itself in tears, in a sorrow which ‘wept to take leave of them’ in the moment of being replaced by the joy of new discovery.” -         -   Shakespeare:  The Last Phase by Derek Traversi Eternal rest as they say when someone dies. Rest is what makes any person happy after toil but that is rest for a moment. Even so, it makes any man who had exerted so much calm and enjoys a good and happy idle moment. When man is always at rest then he is dead. He is dead for he has already ceased to move. Life ends when motion eternally ends. Life is all about struggle to survive and that in itself is motion. When that activit...

Here in the living room of my childhood days sprang three individuals who shared the idea of siblingship through blood and also to where we are siblings because when we were yet the younger version of ourselves our own fellow children cannot understand our rationality. We came to flock to other children with the same sheep skin which were notably rare. This room is a meeting place of minds, whose brother to brother to sister relationship is composed of silence, each attending  to our toys that helped us reached a certain kind enlightenment and once the first question is raised, then the evening becomes a discussion on politics, religion, society, philosophy, art (most of the times music), science and etc. As we grew older we begin to manifest the beauty of the ideas that we have cherished such as perfecting intelligence, making history, freedom and a life where the self actualizes in servitude to the other. Our bond is a soulful bond. We have more eyebrow clenching moments th...

Home inevitably to the common person is an answer from a question of where and what. To ask what is to inquire to the many things to what we can say of a home both in abstract and in a particular manner. In abstract we generalize through all-encompassing words what really makes a home which is true to all homes. On the other side, not all homes in particular are the same in other homes with regards to the materialization of the universals. Different names and appearances of people are involved but still in general we call them family, parents, siblings and etc. A home can be really well be answered by the “what” question. To the common person, what and where are different ways of asking questions, but to some most especially those who had a little bit of Aristotle is that, the where is part of the what – accidence of place. A home materializes itself with people around in a space that it occupies along with it. A structure or even the reminiscence of the living room arrangement or...

                Ang akong semester kay dili basta-basta. Sa pagkakarong panahona sa akong pagtudlo, labe na sa ika-duha na semester sa tuig 2015-2016 daghan tuod na akong dili malimtan. Mao ning panahona na nakatilaw ko ug sahod na sapat gayud sa akong pagpaningkamot. Dako tuod ko ug kalipay na maka-ingon ta na arang-arangan ug kaya na magbuhi sa akong kaugalingon kuyug sab sa akong gihigugma na akong minyuon puhon na si Joy. Karon sab ang panahon na nakaginhawa ko ug balik gikan sa miaging semester na pwerte gayung kapuya tungod kay napulog-tulo akong gidala na mga pundok sa mga tinun-an sa panahon sab na ang sahod dili pa tantong dako. Dili sab nako kalimtan ang among pagkasinabot na magminyu na mi ug sa limang buwan kapin ang pagpang-andam para sa umaabot na handa ug selebrasyon ug apil sab ang kasapot sa amung pagmaneho ug paglihok sa tanang aspetong legal sa amung panaghi-usa. Kini gayud ang isa sa pinakadako nako na kalampusan ug kadau...

                I am now in my fourth year of my teaching career and there are so many things that came along, most especially in how I was trying to tame my language and my being to become an efficient teacher. I admit that the first years were not that good for me, professionally speaking. I admit that there were so many errors that I made and in the last two years of my teaching, I have been trying my best to pay for my sins. Even though I was forced to leave in my previous work due to the style that I brought and with that I was furious, but that should not be a shocker to me for I know what I was going against. However, that was the first time that I have tasted rejection in the professional level and all because of the very ideals I fought for.                 I was young and fiery. I thought that I was already world class, but I placed that bloat of an ego ...

                I have never felt a kind of magnanimous excitement knowing that marriage is just around the corner. It is like I am now facing the moment wherein I will happily entangle myself with someone I love so much. The thrill spurs in knowing that that day is coming. I am now ready to stand firm with my decision to love her as I usually did and this time in a so called societal accepted manner and that is to publicly pronounce it through a ceremony.  Celebrations like these do not really matter to me as a person who looks into the essentials, because there can be no event needed when the couple just follow their hearts to keep the bond intact even if there are no legalities and or social practices. Ideally speaking I am the kind of person who would rather swear an oath to oneself and to the other under the heavens to preserve the love in pure solitude, yet I am inside a world filled with rites. The rites serves to extend the vows...

             The youth is the future of our nation which in fact is a pale blue dot in a pale blue dot. Indeed, it is a fact because they will replace the old ones after they are nurtured for the real world. Yes, they are the future because they are the potential working force that will raise the status of the economy. Moreover, we can export them to the global community to work for transnational corporations and much so there are those who still wish to strive inside our nation. If the future solely means having a stable job and then contributing to the national budget then the future is indeed promising.             The means in preparing this youth through education is one way to rear them for a future. Education serves as that requisite wherein they are fully trained for the world. However, mostly of the educational institutions here in the Philippines are problematic. To some extent, ther...

         As far as I am concerned, I know education is important to you, especially in investing in a good future. However, before even going further, let us clarify first what you mean by education and a good future. As a teacher, I too was once like you. I suffered under hectic schedules, deadlines, mind-twisting examinations and long hours of listening to lectures; typically, your academic life. Seeing you today made me think of the very problem in our nation nowadays, and that most of you are unaware of such a dilemma because society was clever enough to numb you.      It is an undeniable fact how our educational institutions molded us to become the best memorizers and imitators of already existing things. Intelligence now has become a showcase of how fluent your English is, or how many terminologies you can sink into your head. Diction has become the standard of your being educated, and empty words have become the badge of your geni...

                The mirror of time reflected to me the thorns of the summer of 2014. The moment when the thorn dug deep into the skin choking the heart to weep in sorrow was at its pinnacle. The silence that haunts the ears and the words that pierced through the soul. Memory is kind to give me the story again as it celebrates its year old wound and scar. But the man of today saw it as a fitting scene to happen as the ride between the couple gets more intense. Never a day did this beautiful melancholic relic pass through my thoughts with a silent stride. I bear the impact of the apple falling from the branches.                 My mind brought me to the spectre of the war where I lay wounded after the dagger had struck me to the bone. The music had its abrupt stop when I was listening to the melody. The quick pause caused my ear to resonate in dismay, longing still ...