DREAM BIG DREAMS!
Your nation, dear starshine, is in need of your dreams. So you must dream big!
I kid you not, there is a strain of thinking in Filipino society these days that is so smallish, so restrictive, so constrained, so limited, it predisposes the unwary to a life of penury.
Don't you know you are the equal of any of your contemporaries on the planet? What dreams the youth of our world today are capable of - you are capable of.
So don't sell yourself short. My advice to you is to go and dream those dreams.
Dreams are all about possibilities. They are the "stuff" of yet unborn realities.
If you shall ask me what is this "stuff"?
I shall answer you with a question - "what are your possibilities"?
We are not a material (i.e. unspiritual) people, starshine. Everything you really need is already in yourself.
The plight of many of our poor people here in the Philippines is desperate indeed. But material poverty is no obstacle to the human heart. Many successful Filipinos will attest to that.
The only kind of poverty that truly impoverishes is the spiritual kind. Remember, we are not a material people, starshine.
Let go of the thinking that money is the goal of education. Better yet, let go of the thinking that wealth is about money. Money per se is not wealth. Wealth is much larger than money.
Learning itself is wealth. The ability to dream is wealth. Virtue is wealth. Health is wealth. A good friend is wealth. A good family is wealth. A lively faith is wealth. A healthy parish community is wealth. A vibrant and prospering barangay community is wealth. A strong and faithful nation is wealth. There are a lot of things other than money that make one rich indeed and you may add them all to this list.
So do not be restricted by the thinking that money is the ultimate end of your life's labors upon this world.
Let your dreaming be a dream of happiness. Let it be one of sweet release and of joyous realization.
What you believe in your heart, dearest starshine, are like seeds planted in your soul. So it is very important for you to know where these seeds come from and what these seeds are.
Because the souls of the young are fertile ground indeed. You must, especially in your youth, be aware to nurture only those things in yourself that shall lead you to your dreams that you may work sedulously to awaken these dreams in yourself - that you may bring it out into our needful world.
There are things - truths - proper to you. You must seek them and come to an understanding of them that you may come to know who you are as God intended you to be - who you must be and therefore, work to become.
You must become this person, dear starshine, and when you do, your dreams will come true.
Find yourself and the rest will follow.
The real secret to making money is not the desire to make money - it is simply the willingness to be yourself.
Money is a by product of the knowledge that comes with being happy with who you are - mature in your gifts, secure in your faith, steadfast in your hopes, and alive in your love.
It takes a lot of hard work to be happy - but isn't happiness the ultimate aim of all human labor? So why be skimpy?
Go and dream big dreams!Some people study with a view to making big money and end up sad and broken. They think with their minds by excluding their hearts.
There can be great desolation even in the midst of great material wealth. This is a sad fact indeed.
Jesus taught, "seek ye first the Kingdom of God and all these things shall be given you besides".
There can be great desolation even in the midst of great material wealth. This is a sad fact indeed.
You must not be this way, dear starshine. You must always lead with your mind but think with your heart. For we are not a material people.
Isn't this the same as to say, "everything you really need is already in yourself"?
Think about it, our precious starshine, and don't forget to pray.
Find yourself, Beloved of God: Believe.
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Mabuhay ang Pilipinas! God bless the Class of 2011.
Dreamer of Dreams