07.22.07
An Autobiography
What I am makes who I am.
I am a writer. I am not a formalist. I create my own standards; I have my own style. I do not write about facts; I write about life. My compositions have their roots on experiences and feelings. I write to express and never to impress. Writing is partly explaining the once inexplicable, and it can never tell the whole story. For a writing’s essence depends on its reader. I write that I may remember and that I may be remembered. For an author himself is more important than what he writes. People is my favorite subject. Nothing is more interesting than discovering the depths of the human soul, and delivering its message to its fellow souls. My purpose is to influence, for knowledge is dead when it is not worked out. Writing is my pacifier; a part of me is restless until I have written. My hands are my instrument, without which everything would be different.
I am a thinker. I do not look for mistakes; I just keep on wondering. I seldom conclude; I frequently ask. For facts are more dangerous than opinions; they are believed to be true and you will never know when they are false. I question questions and restate statements that I may communicate with their spirits. I analyze events then synthesize them that I myself may see the whole picture and unfold the drama.
I am a beautifier, a lover of nature. Beauty is God’s gift and everyone has his or her share. Our gifts are to be loved and nurtured, not to be hated and abused. Beauty is internal and ethereal; it comes from within and inspired by One above. Beauty shall produce good and shall not bring harm to itself and to others. Beauty shall be loved; it shall be preserved.
I am a teacher. I teach through words and deeds, not through chalks and boards. My tests come without warning, and I give perfect scores. I don’t have a regular schedule but I am always present. I don’t check notebooks but I remind to write. My books are carefully chosen, but often times I only use excerpts. For not all that is written is true, not all is good. I was once a new teacher, but I do not have plans to retire. My teachings will never die as my soul will be eternal. I am not the only teacher, and my only wish is for my students to become teachers in their own rights.
I am a reader. I read words. I read faces. I read actions. I read events. Reading is a fountain of wisdom and maturity. It is a good job for the bored, a good leisure for the tired. What I read I either digest or spit. Reading must be done with a critical mind, for one may come across a line that is either constructive or destructive. It must be done with an open mind, for the reader is the master of what he reads and not the other way around. If a writer must be zealous in what he writes, more so must the reader be in what he reads. If the former must be mighty to affect, more so must the reader be to be transformed.
