FREE ESSAY 1

'ME' EQUATION: Future= Self + Success

Designing and planning for your success in the future is like solving a puzzle. It Requires time, effort, skill, patience and commitment. There would be trials, but whatever step you make, strive to learn from it, for it will secure you a success.

It is the bright light which enters the edge of the closed window beside my bed that awaken me from my deepest sleep. Still, my mind remembers all the sequential and im

portant events dealing with my future life that are compacted in my very long, long dream last night.

I went into a study table and I immediately put a paper and a pen. I wrote everything from what happened in my dream. It goes this way...

These are the qualities of an ideal 'me' in the future: a man near to perfection, the best professor that a student can have, a person who attained his main goal in life, a good traveler of the world, a man with a big heart to other people through having charitable works, and a good son to his parents. If these could be me in the future, I have nothing else to wish for. Everything was complete despite the fact that I am perfectly imperfect at all. I still have my weaknesses.

My life was very nice since I started migrating from Bicol to Quezon City, after being graduated with academic distinction in college. Long years after I embattled the years of hard work for studying and for the pursuance of career, now I stood here at one of the famous and biggest schools in the Philippines, U.P. Diliman. It's a great pleasure that I'd acquire respect from my students. I think what matter is this saying, 'Treating others with dignity and making sure your behaviors are respectful would end up with respecting you in the same way. Thus, it will make you a person of quality'. This is my principle inside the classroom. According to my dream, the major subjects that I'm teaching were Science and Mathematics. I loved to work in Science laboratories and to teach the right way of mixing two chemical compounds as well as performing calculations satisfying the laws of Calculus. In such ways, it boosted my confidence to treat myself as a good professor or educator. I received awards from my invention and had been a great part in the Science and Math World. How nice it is!

I am a person who attained his main goal n life. According to Tony Robbins, setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible. It's very difficult to attain a main goal in life especially if no one guided you to attain such a thing. I am still lucky for I have my family, for their lifetime support and encouragement to attain my main goals in life of being a successful man, It takes time, patience, hard work to attain such goal. During my elementary, high school, and college years I'll never forget the several times that there were many people who sacrificed everything just to suffice my needs in school. That was my parents, my ever beloved mother and father. In my dream, I owned a small yet pretty house and a gray car. I can afford my needs and wants especially my stuff, gadgets, clothing as well as accessories, and etc. I also supported the needs of my family and contributed to the expenses needed to build our own family dream house. It was very wonderful.

Next thing that was in my dream was about traveling the world. I dream to go to other places in the Philippines and also in other countries. Just in a deep sleep, i was able to go to other places across Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao and had arrived to U.S., Canada, Europe, Russia, France, Japan, China, Singapore and so on. It was a great experience to see the gigantic Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. Also, the New York Film Festival with an enormous and astonishing floats moving down the street. I also experienced being under the cherry blossoms from Japan while its flower is falling towards the ground. With amusement, I also saw the Puerto Princesa Underground River in Palawan, Philippines. In my future, I was a traveler...

A man with a big heart to children through having charitable works. I find happiness when helping other people, specifically to those families and children who are disadvantaged. It satisfied me and gave me contentment. We must share everything that we have, we should avoid selfishness in our hearts in order to give yourself peace and happiness and to receive a surprise gift from heaven or from God. It is not difficult to do for me because I have the luxury and money. According to my dream, I founded three charitable foundations just like, "Tulong sa Mahirap ngunit mahusay na Mag-aaral" was for all children who can't afford themselves to send in school, "Cure For a Better Future" was a charitable work open for all mentally-ill children, and "New Horizons Family Care" was for the family who needs financial support.

Then in my dream, it illustrates that I am a good son to my parents. Well, as far as I know, I always thank them for everything that they've done for me. Also, there are times that I can say 'I Love You' to them...I respect them and I continuously and never stop showing my love through hugging them tightly. In that moment, I feel like floating on the sky and sitting on a very fluffy clouds. It gives me satisfaction. It makes my life completely happy. 

After I wrote everything in my dreams, I started reading it. I know that this just a result of my deep imagination, it wasn't true at all. But then optimism suddenly dwells my mind forcing that anything could be possible with the aid of self-commitment, self-patience, self-skills. Some things that are stated  in my writing were not patterned or not the true 'me' right now, but changes are possible if I plan for an ideal 'me'. I kept the paper.

I approached my mother and gave to her the paper and positively say, "Everything that was stated there would be me on 2025". "Really?", my mother replied with a smile.

I expected that my mother would laugh at me. But it was different. What she only said is, "Continue the great work that you have now, because in the future you will become a successful and a great masterpiece ever created by God for a mission." It motivated me at present...

After all, designing my future self today continues...using all the skills, encouragement and motivation for attaining a common goal ---being successful in the future.

FREE ESSAY 2

 THE COIN

In my vacant hours in school, I often spend my time eating delicious foods in the food court of my beloved CBSUA, hahahah!

One time, I saw a one-peso coin that has been passed and walked for several times by many people without noticing it. I get the coin. Instead of knowing who owns it since it's just a one-peso coin, I just take a sit. During that minimal span of time, a thing or an idea flashes back into my mind about the value of money and the value of the dignity and character of people.

It goes this way...There is a comparison between how the value money or a person affects by this factor...

A one-peso coin that was being scratched, hammered, or tightly pressured by a huge thing still remains its value. In our modern world, does this concept also apply to us, people?

I remember different TV personalities or other unknown people who were discriminated and bash in the world of social networking like actresses whose fame continuously faded in the eyes of audience. And also the girl behind the word AMALAYER, who had been bashed for several times until she lost her dignity and character as a person...Nobody is perfect. Just like coins, no one molded and created to be perfect, there could be flaws and imperfection. The value of coin must be the same as how we value a person even they have a bitter and dark past that changed their way of connecting to our society. A person that was being scratched, destroyed or kicked by bashers deserves to retain his dignity, character as well as his value as a person. He should not be degraded, discriminated and bullied. Every person is equal in the eyes of our Almighty God.

I remember my grade school years that I was bullied for several times because I couldn't met the standards that they want for me as belonging to a star section. They always shouted me and saying, "Bobo!" or "Tanga!" or a LOSER. I felt degraded and alone. I tried everything in order to changed such impression to me, studying hard, hard, hard but nothing was happened. I felt frustrated. It happened that I transfered in other schools--here Bicol not because to escape such thing but because of our socio-economic status. It's much better that I'd escaped from that gloomy and sorrow experience.

And today, I am living my life to the fullest, filling it with the happy memories that I gained in my 16 years of existence!

Through such coin, I'm able to retrospect my past experiences..."Hanep yan!". Past is past. What I can do is to focus on my present and design for my better future...Alright!!!

FREE ESSAY 3

FRIEND
By: Eric Alina

Standing in the ground while looking up the sky, an enormous, terrible and deafening groan completely catches my attention. Suddenly, little drops of water starts to fall into the ground and make noise on the roof of neighboring houses. Every time the rain comes, I always remember the time when my friend always leaves me alone because of some shallow reason. But, he did not truly say something about it.

Why rain? You always visits me every time the sun leaves and gets me wet and soaks the lower part of my body into a sticky mud. Drops of water coming from a gloomy sky are running on my skin like a marathon, very quick. Despite the fact that it's getting cold and you causes the feeling of sadness and loneliness, your rainwater as it touches my skin seems that I am regaining energy or refreshment. I don't know why. It makes me feel alive like the kids I've seen playing in the rain.

After a couple of minutes, the rain vanished and a glimmering sunlight starts to reappear. It's great to see the glittering sands, rocks, stones and leaves due to raindrops that are being hit by the sunlight. Until, scorching rays of the sun starts to penetrate my skin. During that time, I see my friend again who always leave me when the rain comes. I looked up in the sky and strongly asked, "Why?". I repeat it  much louder, "Why?!!!".

Out of my expectations that he will not reply, My friend, named Sun replied, "It's because I want you to live happy and healthy into your life".

"What?, How odd you are!".

 "It's true!, my dear, plant. I know you can't understand everything because you're just small. I am your friend Sun, who made promise to your parent plants to always take good care of you. I am the one who gives you light in order to manufacture your own food. But then the reality is, I'm not the only friend that you needed most, you need also rainwater and air in order for you to live that's why I'm leaving sometimes..."

"Is that true?, You care for me and made promise to my parents?. By the way, where are my parents? Where are they?"

"I'm sorry to say but they'd been destroyed by the typhoon two years ago...But it's okay, the important is YOU ARE ALIVE!"

"How sad it is!, Do I will experience the same thing as my parents?'

"No, if you will make yourself strong and healthy!'

"But how?"

"Through us! your true friends--Sun, Rainwater and Air...We are the agents for your good transformation. We are your strengths, you can be strong and healthy."

Finally, I realized that our true friends are blessings in disguise, they are good or they do something good which aren't recognized at the first instant. Our friends can be the source of our strengths. Everything has a reason and a purpose. Appreciate it as a good thing for yourself.



Thanks to my friends! I am lucky to have you! If I will count all the blessings that I have in CBSUA, I count on you!!!

I created this story during my free time, actually it's raining that time. I saw a very cute and small plant. Due to that plant, it inspires me to create a story that will relate to the concept of friendship...