Love Alone

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. There comes the time for us to meet someone who’ll be for us. That person gives us the power and the genuine affection inside. But to lose that someone is not a usual thing.

Recognizing and distinguishing the story behind Aeneid and Illiad, the two wives showed how they sincerely love their husbands. Creusa begs Aeneas not to leave the city, but else to stay with her and their son, Ascanius. On the other hand, Andromache begs Hector not to leave the city and ceased him from fighting against the enemies. But, no matter how these wives hindered them, they left their families and went on a journey to travel for the sake of winning against the battle while knowing the chance of seeing them no more.

Evidently, love shows to be true among them. They had proved their eternal love that they really do not want to sacrifice their husband’s lives. Apparently, to lose someone would be their greatest weakness. Probably, it’s the main cause that they want their husbands to follow their pleading. Analyzing, Creusa and Andromache were able to have the strength to go and left their family since they knew how they were deeply loved by their wives. Conversely, they were able to have the courage to fight and do what they are destined to do, since they knew how they love their wives as deep as they could love them.

This only proves how love could be your greatest strength and your greatest weakness. To love someone else more than yourself shows how you were thrown off by love into another level. That person whom you are willing to do everything is the person you never wanted to lose and would be your only shoulder to lean on.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfil them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in them.

Informal Theme #03

Suffer for Victory

“Never stop just because you feel defeated. The journey to the other side is attainable only after great suffering.”

Life is a miserable game. Life isn’t easy. Ups and downs were there. Learn to handle every single difficulty, perhaps in the best way. Life isn’t worth-it if it’s just full of chances and expectations. Misery is at stake, but not let despair tie you up with just what you’ve done. Deserting is your greatest opponent.

Never stop just because you feel defeated. To be conquered is not a problem. A downfall does not count as a reason for you to set back and wait for miracles. You might even be gone. Be lost. But once you lose, you’ll learn. Learn to be someone who’s better enough. Prove yourself and what you could do. It is certainly not as easy as it could be, because a failure leads disappointment, but it is not necessarily your fall. It isn’t the end. The end is when you were able to establish yourself, as someone who does not easily gives up, but gets up. Attest yourself. Prepare for challenges, obstructions, and sufferings. Being discouraged isn’t a unique attitude, but actually a very common one. Let yourself not be dispirited.

Life gets meaningful and exciting through under goings. It is our faith which holds us back and does not let us fall. But don’t just be faithful. Be adequately strong to struggle, to do your best at your utmost. Have the power, the strength, and the courage to strive harder.

Winning isn’t automatically attained. It is neither easily achieved, nor certainly given. The path of winning is accomplished only after you suffer. Our sufferings commonly lead us to victories.

Imagine yourself studying at school. You’ll be getting good grades. You will be able to get something worth-it for your effort. But if you got low grades, you should have been more persevered. Now, imagine yourself studying hard at school. Won’t you be glad if you’ll be achieving higher grades, more than what you could have if you just settle yourself studying easily? The more you receive and have your grades at its best, is not just how you could be popular or known. It’s more than how you were able to prove what you can do, what you can be, who you can be, and what awaits you in the future.

Give yourself the chance to do something difficult or even decisions that will edify you as a person, on who you are and what you are.

Suffer. Victory.

Informal Theme #02

How Life Could Be

        “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” 

Telling a story of your own city’s fall isn’t an easy thing. It’s just feeling the hurt and experiencing the pain once more. As Aeneas entails his, I felt sympathy just like I was him, taking pity over myself. It’s undeniably isn’t as simple as it could be, to feel the ache you’ve suffered from. But that doesn’t mean that you’ll leave it the way it had hurt you on your own.

Aeneas himself is destined to found Rome. Fated to, he made use of Troy’s fall as his guide. He managed to get through, imagining how his city fell. His experiences have made him strong. Aeneas learned to struggle through sufferings. They were defeated by the enemies whom had fooled on them. But still, he remained standing, guiding and controlling his army. He has leaded them towards hopefulness filled with power and strength to fight everything. He learned to figure it out with the way things moved on.

Weakness and faint-heartedness were not a setback to him. And with that, I even changed the feeling of sympathy I have in me. I just thought it like simple sacrifices. I felt the eagerness inside me wanting to learn how to get up. These sacrifices made me think that they were meant to be the purpose to live and the pursuit for something new. It is merely rising up for the better, leaving the past a direction towards further happenings. Life could be of pleasures, but could also be of difficulties. Just as it is, failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour. 

Informal Theme #01

4TH Quarter

Her Cryptic Smile

“Mona Lisa, Mona Lisa, men have named you
You’re so like the lady with the mystic smile
Is it only ‘cause you’re lonely they have blamed you
For that Mona Lisa strangeness in your smile.”

Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa painting, in the Louvre in Paris, is arguably the most famous painting in the world. It is probably also the best known example of sfumato, a painting technique partly responsible for her enigmatic smile. The painting had done a lot of controversies, theories, and arguments. A speculation such as it was a portrait of Lisa Gherardini whom was the wife of a Florentine cloth merchant called Francesco del Giocondo was a theory at once. Another one is that it was really a self-portrait of the artist. These accounts for Mona Lisa painting as “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, and the most parodied work of art in the world”.

An enigmatic smile she has. Nobody knows I believe by this time, what her smile really means. Is it pure happiness, sadness, anger, being surprised, or no emotions at all? Her hesitating smile caused my curiosity grow. But I, do believe that she truly smiles in her figure, maybe because she’s really pregnant as what others think as well. She has that of a big tummy or stomach or abdomen or whatever it is. I just can’t explain what’s with that portrait that everyone who could see would really think of it. At first, I didn’t mind about that portrait, but as far as my memory reaches that art, I can’t help myself to think of it. I could only say that it was the desire on knowing every single thing behind that art I am searching for. That’s really a strange smile.

I probably need not more theories but that of a truth. But who could say so? Wondering time-travelling to da Vinci’s time and argue with him about that? That sounds pretty cool, but that’s perfectly impossible. No matter what others say, they’re probably not the truth.

This painting was awesome. It’s ordinary, unique, peerless, and incomparable, but it was an all-time art. I could say that it’s indeed a valuable and precious figure of art. Revealing the mystery behind the painting and more often with the enigmatic smile bringing worries and conflictions would definitely catch everyone’s attention. Still, the unrevealed would stay the best and for long.

Informal Theme #05

Memory To Be Kept

To: Ms. Ederleen G. Escallar

          Please be at my house in Gary, Indiana this Saturday. I’ll be glad if you’ll be there to talk to me even just for this one afternoon. I’ll wait for you here.

From: Mr. Anonymous

          I woke up at nine in the morning and received a letter from this anonymous guy. I didn’t know who he was then he was asking me to go to his house at Gary, Indiana to talk with him for one afternoon. I can’t explain the feeling but I’m really feeling strange with this. But nothing’s wrong with doing so, since I’m already here at Chicago, it would be easier for me to get there on time.

          Exactly at 4:30 am, I travelled to airport and I reached my destination at around nine or ten. I have seen a banner with my name written on it but I didn’t recognize the face of the person holding it. I went there and I was extremely shocked with what I saw. There’s my idol. There’s Michael Jackson! He was that guy who invited me and I’m so glad that I didn’t ignored the invitation.

          We went to his house and talked. “Were you shocked? You seemed to be quiet still.”, he asked me. “Uhh. Yes. I didn’t expect that you would be the one inviting me to spend an afternoon with you. :)”, I replied. “Don’t you worry, I just wanted to have a simple talk to my number one fan.”, he said and smiled. “Oh, thank you very much Mr. Jackson.” I said. “Just call me, Michael.”, he requested. “Uh, if that’s what you wanted, Michael.”, I agreed.

          We talked about his life, and later on with mine. After the talk, he asked me of my favorite song of him. I said that it was his song “you are not alone”. He smiled and asked me to sing the song with him. Just then we sang and enjoyed other songs as well. We ate many foods as if we’re having a picnic. We danced as well and made fun of our stay together. We rested and said that he enjoyed my company and he really thinks I’m his number one fan. I knew everything about him and his songs, as he thinks as well. He gave me his last released album as a token of remembrance, which I placed at the inside pocket of my jacket. I thanked him so much since I’m longing for this and now I have it really from him. I looked outside and found out that it’s getting late in the evening already. He requested me to go again some other day and spend longer time jamming with him, and I assured him. We bid goodbyes and thanks. I left him with a smile from his and mine’s face.

          Suddenly, I realized that someone else had been waking me up. I woke up and I saw myself riding on a plane with the stewardess telling me that my destination is already here. I thanked her and I went back home. I went to Chicago last year and now I am here at my house in Philippines. I recalled my dream. I’m half glad and half sad. I met my idol Michael Jackson, but only in my dreams. I took off my jacket and felt something hard inside it. I got it and saw my idol’s last released album I’m longing to have. I am now a hundred percent fulfilled with joy and happiness. I might be dreaming but I have had his album I desired, unexpected.

Informal Theme #04

Eight Rings of Blunder

I walked through the Evil Educates Forest as fast as I can. I can see a lot of people suffering out there. I accidentally stumbled myself on the floor and looked up. I am afraid that these people might hurt me and let me suffer as how they do.

I have seen and reached the First Ring of Blunder. The Late Comers. I stood up and saw Sir Tom watching the students as they run through the forest for infinite times. Those who decided to stop were hit by a small truck and forced to run again. I asked his attention for a while and he made mention of me that these students were those who were always late going to school.

I walked along and reached the Second Ring of Blunder. The Loud. I saw Ma’am Tenny and the students who were speaking and speaking and speaking without pausing. Others who paused have their tongue’s cut off. She told me that these students were those who used to keep noisy all throughout.

I continued my journey and reached the Third Ring of Blunder. The Bullies. I saw students lying on human wastes. I saw Ma’am Elaine there and confronted her. She said that these students were those who used to torment other students and whenever they get up, they eat human wastes.

I walked again and reached the Fourth Ring of Blunder. The Vandals. I saw students who were painted with mud on their body. They were trying to remove the paintings but as long as they tried to, the paint gets thicker and thicker. Ma’am Lenny was there standing in front of me. She caught my attention and I talked to her. I learned from her that the students who were made to stay in here were those students who used to vandal on different things, and the reason for their punishment is for their bad works that made them suffer. I left.

I got tired and looked for water sources and found a small flowing water source out there. I washed my face with some and boost up. I decided to continue walking and stopped.

I went to the Fifth Ring of Blunder. The Lazy and Filthy. I saw students who were cleaning the floor as they were hanging on the ceiling. I also saw students who were buried in trash. I turned around and realized that Ma’am Mae was there at my back in the first place. I requested her to tell me about these students. She told me that students were here because they were lazy enough to left everything filthy. They do not have the intention to mess up their trashes.

I moved to the Sixth ring of Blunder. The Costly. I saw students tempted by many foods while Ma’am Evelyn was there observing them. They were injected with food starvation medicine. Ma’am Evelyn went near me and simply told me of these students who used to waste and waste.

I was at the Seventh Ring of Blunder. The Cheaters. Students were given 100-item tests by Ma’am Lucky while their feet are submerged on cold water. I approached Ma’am Lucky and she said that these students decided to cheat with their assignments and tests. Every time they finish a test, they were given ten minutes to rest and take the following tests.

At the Eight Ring of Blunder, I saw the Liars. There is Ma’am Pareja viewing the sufferings of students. The students here were brought on fire unto their lower half part of the body, and upper part brought on ice. I felt extreme pity upon them that I almost cried. Ma’am Pareja talked to me and she asked me to stop pitying on them. She mentioned that these students were here because they lied.

She warned me that I might see these kinds of students at school. She requested me to warn as well all the other students and I agreed. But, how? I asked her.

She woke me up. I was just sleeping at our school pavilion. I looked at my watch and it’s already six in the afternoon. I have to go home. I remembered ‘bout my dreams and smiled.

Informal Theme #03