Success won’t be achieved if you will not exert effort, hard work, and dedication. This line helped me to think and realize that life is not easy because you will go along with different struggles, circumstances and pains. In life you will experience different ups and downs in which those life experiences will teach you and give you valuable lessons which will make you a better person. In addition, you will experience different life decisions that will shape the life and experience that awaits you. You will only experience success if you will make right decisions.
At this point, let me share to all of you my experiences as I stepped and entered the world of college.
Others would say that college life is just a piece of cake. Others would say that those who enter college are too ambitious even if they can’t afford. Those are the famous lines that most of the people heard and I heard and experienced that too. Sometimes those lines from other people made me realize not to continue or finish my college journey. It forced me to stop dreaming and better stay without any ambitions in life. One day, I have realized that why should I stop or why should I stop dreaming and believing that I can. It somehow forced me to continue my chosen path even if I received negative feedbacks.
As I pursue my chosen career, I experienced negative life experiences. Those experiences were actually about financial and emotional. Talking about financial, as I stepped college I have experienced those times wherein I could not afford to pay contributions in school. I couldn’t afford to pay for the photo copy of the lessons and to buy materials for my demonstrations. I could not forget the time when I begged to one of my classmates in order for me to borrow less amount of money so that I can pay different contributions in school. There were times that I am running out of food straight for a week. I cooked food that will last for a week, a food called “ginamos”. I cried while eating because I experienced pains and struggles.
I am so lucky because I have great parents that are supportive throughout my life’s journey. They were my motivator in which they gave me different encouragement lines which helped me not to stop achieving my dreams in life. My father experienced different life’s struggles because he needed to work in our farm and lifted copra(coconut) just to earn small amount of money; it is his way of earning. My mother cared for three children and with that, she earned less amount of money. Their way of earning helped me to succeed in college and earned my degree.
With the black academic gown I am wearing, are those pains and sacrifices we made just to finish my degree in college. We exerted much effort just to be successful in earning my degree. Our sweats and tears were a living proof that we made a lot of sacrifices in life just to get the success I have today.
With this academic gown and graduation rites of mine is just a humble beginning towards success. This is just a fresh beginning in achieving my dreams in life. At last, I reaped the fruits of my hard word and labor. Whatever I have right now is just a humble beginning. I know with God’s help, I can do everything and achieve everything.
