Every one of us has its own place where we came from, a place where we are free to do things that we wanted to do, a place where we belong. A place that molds up of who we are today and what will be in the future. A place where we came from will always be the secret witness of every failure and success we go through our life. In our fast faced world most of us now know what being an outcast feels like. There has been come sometime in all of our lives when we didn’t fit in some place where we should have been welcomed.
I never considered the place I came from to be near as important as the place I was headed for. Now, as college approaches so quickly, I can see how wrong I was, how defined I am by the environment that circumstances or conditions that surrounds me. I am from a beautiful, contradictory world. The two sides of my derivation are so often considered incompatible; I love being the link between them. There is the original side, the side of tradition and fundamentals, a wonderful combination of love for the past and need for human contact. The other side is a quick, electric surge to the future. It is where discovery and logic are tools waged to create understanding. I reside at the nexus of these two intersecting planes.
I was born and raised here in this small town as we called it little land in northern Mindanao Davao Del Norte. . Where the province of Lanao was divided into Lanao Del Norte, with its predominant Christian and muslim population. The people here are mostly Maranao that’s why the term Lanao is derived from the Maranao word “Ranao” meaning a body of water. Even though our family is Christian we still like as a muslim because the type of our living. I have always been able to look up and see those mountains run across the horizon every morning. This is a slow, gorgeous, green world. This land is riddled with comfort and people's faces are built with courtesy which people possess their own culture which makes them quite unique. I call it as “Land of Beauty and Bounty,” We live in a life of simplicity where rice, corn, coconut is our only way of living. Their language, social system, traditions, religion and other features are factors that make Lanao peculiar and distinct from other Philippine provinces. It is an amazing place, and I am particularly fond of my place in it. This is the place will always be a part of being me.
My time is mainly appropriated between school and church. And, with as much time as I spend there, my church is definitely worth a mention. The other half of my world is an intellectual passion that deals for special children, dealing with them made me felt complete because it’s really fulfilling on my part to teach them not only by hand but also by heart. I have an incredible special teacher who has been dictating those elegant ideas to me for over a year, and I can say she is an enormous driving force for my entrance into the field of education. I admire her without end.
I have born in me a need for coherency, reason, and understanding, and whether it is understanding the people around me in fellowship or reasoning through abstractions on a chalkboard, I am driven for insight, for conception, for knowledge." The environment, which I consider to be the people around me, such as my family and friends, inspired me to become the person I am today, someone who wants a successful future. I grew up around people who believed that I had a potential to be better, which made want to be better as a person. But my family and friends believed the best way to achieve my goals and dreams.
My world, my family shaped me into who I am and will become, they also shaped my dreams because they inspired and encouraged me to lead a better life than they or their parents did. My parents' method of raising me taught me to work hard to achieve good things in life and be successful. Without them I don't think I would be the same person I am today, I have learned a lot about life and the importance of education from them. They shaped me into a hardworking, kind, caring person, who will do anything for my future and help my family. I will continue on pursuing my dreams and following my career path that will lead me to a better life.
Right now I’m in a place where I can make new friends, feel welcome somewhere, and feel like I have somewhere I belong.
