Change it Starts with me...

“Youths are the hope of the Fatherland,” Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero said.

Yes! I am one of them---the youths that Dr. Jose Rizal mentioned. I’m just a 16-year-old girl but I can help our nation and eventually change it and make it better.

In more than one decade and in almost two decades that I lived here on Earth, I have seen and have encountered different problems, here, there, and everywhere, that our nation is encountered by our nation. And guess what? We people, are the disputes… We are to be blame…We are the ones who are doing these things---these tedious things in our nation. So what will we do now? If I am the one who is being asked, I would say that “I will start the change in me!” Everything starts with ourselves.

"I must discipline myself… I must respect myself… I must love myself…"

Love yourself first before loving others…Respect yourself first before respecting others. Discipline yourself first before disciplining others. Thus, we can change our nation by starting it with ourselves! I, as a youth, I can help change my nation with these traits.

If all the youths have these traits, our nation will be better and we can face all of its problems bravely!

My Dream, My Future

As I grow up, as I wake up in the morning, as I watch the sun rise, I start dreaming about myself in the future---of whom will I be in the near future.

Everybody in this world has their own dreams that they want to come true in the future and I would say, “I am one of them.”

I have my own fantasy, hallucination, illusion, imagination, or DREAM as everybody addresses. I want to be a dean’s leister and finish my college with honor. To be a magna cum laude will be okay with me. I want to be a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and at the same, Lawyer. After passing the licensure examination, I will work in Manila, and there, I will pursue Law. I will pass the Bar Exam and I will have a nice work there. After having a stable job there, I will marry a man who will be deserving for me, who will accept me for who I am, who will be a good father to our two children (I like to have only two children, a beautiful girl and a handsome boy), a good husband, and who will love me not ‘till death do us part’ but till ETERNITY. I will save money because I want to settle in States. I want to migrate there with my family for good. I want to tour around the world but first, around the Philippines.

These are my dreams…dreams that are impossible and hard to conquer…dreams that I want to come true but I’ll only come true, with my perseverance, wisdom, and trust in the LORD. I will ask for His help so that I can fulfill my dreams.