Posted by maradjao magbalantay on 18th May 2007
People of today are working hard even just to see progress towards attaining their goals. They’re doing these in the hope that they will late on feel happy for the fulfillment they had achieved. But what does happiness mean in the first place anyway?
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Well, happiness as defined by the Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, is a state of well-being and contentment; it is a pleasurable satisfaction. Thus, most people, even I, felt happy when we had achieved the desires of our lives: desires such as living in a big and beautiful house, owning a luxurious car, being financially stable, having a respected status in the society, and the like. But are these the real basis in making a person happy, if not then, what?
People, including me, face lots and lots of problems from day to day: problem at school, financial problems, and problems to live live, problems with friends, problems at home, and even problems at our own selves. That’s why being happy is what I’ve always desired and I think everyone does too, as a means of lessening the problems that I am facing now. And in the hope of finding the things that can make me happy, I had exposed myself into many earthly things. Having earthly things – like owning cellular phine, being able to wear expensive dresses, and the like, really gives me a satisfaction that I longed before. But after possessing those things, I later on found out that it does not give me real and long lasting happiness but a temporary one only. Same it goes with having friends or even with people with whom I shared intimate relationship with, they made me happy but at a limited time only. So what really does make me happy.?
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I do believe that real happiness comes from within.. I can say it because the moment my happiness depends on things and/or people outside of me, it is not, true happiness that I felt and/or experienced for it is already “dependence”: dependence in a manner that I am putting my happiness in a specific or particular thing and/or person. And whenever this thing will be taken away from me or this person will leave me, I will now be unhappy. Making the happiness that I felt before as only “conditional.” So that leaves that my material possessions, friends, and even my family are just constituents as to what really makes me happy. Why? For no matter how much happiness I have before, my life became more fulfilling with God in it. It’s because all of us are not just physical beings but are spiritual beings as well. And only God can fulfill our spiritual hunger and thirst completely. This, maybe, is the reason why I landed as to being a seminarian now, for it is, in a way, fulfilling and has definitely made me HAPPY.
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Posted by maradjao magbalantay on 26th March 2007
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Nang papatapos na ang aking pag-aaral sa haiskol, iniisip ko na kung anong kurso ba ang dapat kong kunin sa kolehiyo. Marami akong pinagpilian, gaya na lamang nang Linguistic dahil nais kong matuto ng iba’t- ibang linguwahe maliban na sa nakasanayan nang Filipino at Ingles, at Nursing pagka’t ito yung usung-usong kurso ngayon. Pero sa tulong na rin nang mga payo ng aking mga magulang, napagdesisyonan kong pumasok sa seminaryo at kunin ang kursong Pilosopiya.
Napili kong kunin ang kursong Pilosopiya sapagkat ito ay may maraming maitutulong sa akin. Gaya na lamang sa paglinang sa kakayahan kong magbasa ng may pag-unawa. Sa kursong Pilosopiya kasi, kalimitang pagtatanong ang binibigyan ng importansiya. Ayon pa nga sa isang kilalang Pilosopo na si Karl Jaspers “Mas mahalaga ang tanong kaysa sa sagot, at ang bawat kasagutan ay nakapaglilikha nang marami pang katanungan.”
Nalilinang sa kursong ito ang abilidad kong rumason at ang maipahayag ang aking saluobin, kuro-kuro o opinyon sa pagsasalita. Hindi lamang kasi ang pag-aaral at pag-unawa sa mga dati nang Pilosopiya an gaming ginagawa kundi kami mismo ay tinuturuang maging Pilosopo: ang magtanong, magpahayag at tumuklas.
Pag natapos ko na ang kursong ito, maaari na akong magpatuloy sa Theology. At kung papalarin, maordinahan at maging pari. Kung hindi ko naman ipagpatuloy ang pagpapari, pwede rin akong magpatuloy sa pag-aaral para sa ibang propesyon. Pwede akong magpatuloy ng pag-aaral sa Abugasya, o di naman kaya ay kumuha nang mga units sa pagtuturo at maging isang guro sa hinaharap. Kung nanaisin ko rin naming makapagtrabaho agad pagkatapos ko sa kolehiyo, pwede akong makapagtrabaho sa mga opisina at sa banko bilang isang teller o kahit manager pa. Pwede rin akong maging isang kilalang Pilosopo sa aming henerasyon.
Kung iisipin, hindi pa rin pahuhuli ang kurso kung napili ikumpara man sa iba.
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Posted by maradjao magbalantay on 15th November 2006
People nowadays strive to be free. We do what we like to do to show to others, and even sometimes to ourselves, that we can do it because we wanted to. For human as we are, we feel ourselves to be free when exercising certain acts. And we judge afterwards that we acted freely in those acts. But are we really free?
I can say that I am free but not absolutely.. I don’t believe in absolute determinism, neither do I believe in an absolute freedom.. What I believe is that we have our freedom all of us, but to some point or degree only. Example, we wanted to study in a college or a university and finish with a degree. It is our own will to choose if where school in particular we will enroll and if what course we will going to indulged ourselves with, which soothes our interest. In this case, we can eventually say that we are free because it our own choice and decision. But the reality is that we may have the freedom to choose but only from limited choices or options with regards to our external factors. Now, if this is the case, we are no longer absolutely free because our choices are not just in accord with what we like but we are already influenced by our external factors.
Those factors that may influence our decision –making can possibly be poverty and intelligence. How? For when we have less money, our list of the schools where we can possibly enroll is reduced to only those affordable ones. Thus, our choices are limited. And in a like manner, when we are less intelligent, our list of schools where we can possibly enroll is reduced to those who are not highly standardized schools. In other words, our choices are, somehow, already determined. But if the case is this, can we say that we are not really free?
My answer is a big No, No. Why? Let us make it an example when Eve had disobeyed God and followed her own will, and thereby, committed sin. Eve’s options may be already determined by God, but the choosing is still hers. “God may have determined the parameter of her choices but not the choosing itself”. She may not be free to do anything, for she can not really fly even if she wanted to, but God gives her a range of limited choices, real choices. In one of the scenes found in the Genesis, where Eve is in the garden with the serpent, she is free to either eat the fruit or not to eat it.. Remember that God’s foreknowledge does not determine this choice. So whatever she chooses, either to eat the fruit or not to eat it, it is a free choice. Therefore, there was still certain freedom that God had given to Eve. Freedom which is also given to us by God, that we experienced even up to the present..
So I can really say that I may not be absolutely free but still free in a way..
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