The Fruit of Being Fortunate

In preparation for our Educational Trip for our Developmental Psychology, all of us are busy with all of our tasks. Each group is responsible for all the institutions that will be visited by the class. We are planning to have it in Cagayan de Oro City. It is for the reason that more institutions are available there and we also need a broader sense of experience for the purpose of learning. All is excited to conduct it, especially because travelling is really an enjoyable task for adolescents. Yet to attain the realization of our plans, it requires unity, effort and understanding of the whole class.

At this point, all of us are active for the preparation of the letters that is necessary for the fulfillment of the said activity. Our professor would want to teach us independence, since every activity that will be covered by this Educational Tour will be handled by us. We must work for all the preparations and must also spend for it. Time, effort and money this is all we need. Thinking about it, it will really drain all of your energy. Yet I believe that this would be self-fulfilling, since this is what we really all want. Learning to interact with different people from all stages of life is an experience that not everyone can have. This opportunity will enable me to understand more how blessed and thankful I am to partake with this.

In our film showing in our CWTS Class, the documentary featuring the life of street children that has been jailed together with adult inmates was viewed by us. The miseries of their life inside that place were truly an experience that we really don’t want to have. The scarcity of their primary needs- food, water, beds, medical facilities and sanitized comfort rooms is so terrible. Some of them just stand when they sleep, because of the lack of space. Those children who are with those adult inmates learned to adapt with the ways of the people in there. It is so sad to know that a situation like that exists. I realized how blessed I am to experience a life that is really blessed with responsible parents, a home that can shelter us from the heat of the sun and the rain, and an education that every individual should have. Those children have a very great chance for their lives if only they have been raced properly. Some of them even showed a sign of intelligence. Let me end this with this question: when would situations like this stop? Each being should learn to appreciate more of what they have rather than getting too insecure of the things that they long to have.