Sunday, April 4, 2010

History and Kasaysayan.

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each and everyone of has our own history or kasaysayan (filipino translation).
before, these two words are just plain words to me. but now, they make me smile.

let me start with my KASPIL1 class during the 2nd term of last academic year.
Mr. Chua, my professor, introduced this subject by defining the word
kasaysayan.
from the word
kasaysayan we could derive two words, saysay and salaysay.
saysay means value, worth and importance and salaysay means story.
kasaysayan is a story that has value, worth and importance.

during the third term, i took up HUMAART (humanities and the arts).
and at some point of discussion, our professor, Mr. Espiritu, taught us that by splitting words we could actually know their meanings.
for example, the word understand could be split as under / stand, to understand means that one should "stand under" the tree of knowledge.
another is the word impress which could be split as im / press, to impress is to "press in" a person to leave a mark.
as for
history, it could be split as his / story, a history is a story of our own, a personal story.

combining
kasaysayan and history gives us a personal story that has value, worth and importance.

we all have our past --- our own history, our own kasaysayan. we all have a
personalstory that has value, worth and importance, whatever that past may be.

there are a lot of people that i know who are trying to run away from their past, a past that continues to haunt them, or simply a bad experience that continues to interfere with their present lives. i believe that everything has a reason. the experiences that we encounter as we face life molds us, whether it may be good or bad. the obstacles that we overcome helps us to become a better and stronger person. Even though we get tripped sometimes, there will always be a lesson that is waiting to be learned.
Mia, a close friend of mine, told me that if we get tripped we must learn the lesson that it wants to teach us, If we don't learn the lesson from it, it will continue to repeat, creating a pattern in our lives and we will not be be able to be freed from it and move on, so we must learn.

Joseph the dreamer was sold by his brothers but he ended up saving nations from the famine. God can use use our lives too to serve as a blessing to other people's lives even in the simplest way and simple things can help make big things happen. it is all in the attitude on how we would be facing life.

so again, we all have our past --- our own history, our own kasaysayan. we all have a
personal story that has value, worth and importance, whatever that past may be.

1 comment:

  1. ,,yeah... right! Let we stand as blessings to others by simply living our own lives... God bless Us, Erica... ^_^

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