05.10.07
simile
Writing is like love. Write when you are in the mood to. Love when it is right in front of you. Writing is best when it is timely. Love is best when it is seized.
surplus
Looking around, I realized that God is too generous. He blessed me with many material possessions yet I cannot use all of them.
philosophy101
It has been a long while since I last updated my blog. I actually missed posting entries. Si Sir L.A. kasi… his lectures compel me to post something. Sabi nga ni Marq, busy ako, with matching, "Di na nga nagbablog si Esme." And so what is it that makes me busy? NOTHING! Getting busy, getting nothing! Or perhaps I have been fulfilling my New Year Resolution of sleeping more. Yeah I have been sleeping more for three nights. Good enough. And I hated it simply because I failed to post an entry yesterday when the idea was in its momentum. I hated it simply because I failed to do something about what I had been thinking and feeling. Now what’s left to me is the hope that the things that were in my mind yesterday would come up tonight as I type this post. And now I’m trying to recall what was in my mind yesterday, what was I feeling…
What I actually remember is that I was carrying a light and brave heart by the time our Philosophy class yesterday ended. First time it happened to me that I could not actually convert into words what I just learned. What just happened to me was that I entered the room as a drifter and got out of it as a "licensed driver."
But for this blog’s sake and for the sake of those who care to read my posts, I would try to leave written lessons to be learned from this "course."
Si Sir L.A. kasi napakadaming binubulalas tungkol sa "katotohanan " ng buhay. Tama ba namang sisihin ang professor?
So far, I could say that I have learned more from listening to this teacher than I did from reading philosophers.
THOSE PEOPLE WHO CAN LAUGH AT PROBLEMS ARE THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN THROUGH A LOT.
and questions like "WHAT FOR?", "PAANO KAPAG NAWALA ANG MGA MAGULANG?"
and things like "MAN IS MEASURABLE YET IMMEASURABLE. MAY MGA TAONG SINUSUKAT AKO, BUT I WILL ALWAYS BE MORE THAN WHAT THEY THINK I AM, MORE THAN WHAT THEY THINK I HAVE."
"A WOMAN WHO WANTS TO BE A QUEEN MUST HAVE HER OWN INDEPENDENT THINKING AND REASONING."
"MARRIED COUPLES DO NOT OWN EACH OTHER, BUT BOTH OF THEM ARE OWNED BY THEIR LOVE FOR EACH OTHER."
"SINO PA BA NGAYON ANG MAY AMOR MAGHANAP SA KATOTOHANAN? IN FACT, MARAMING TAO ANG NAAALIW SA HINDI TOTOO."
These and there are so much more that I have learned from listening to Sir L.A. Tomorrow will be our last meeting. And I am excited to listen for the last time in a formal class as this specially because of an interesting topic, Man as Lover. But after this class, I am sure there will be more lectures outside the school building. Philosophers need not have a room to conduct their discussions. There is one characteristic that they possess and I may be having it too. Yes, I am peripatetic. And I love being one.
