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TO EXPRESS NOT TO IMPRESS
A Call for Responsibility
By: Derick Dimla
"With great power comes great responsibility." I’m more than a superhero,
more powerful than Spiderman and mightier than Superman. They hold up vast
responsibility and hide themselves from fame with their puzzled mask. What if I
was sent from another planet, bitten by a spider, fortuned with a barbell or
bequeathed with a stone?
TENG AND NARDA….
My mind keeps telling me to be responsible, to be a man with super power
forcing me to write this article. I was reminded of this guy; actually he’s my
classmate, who was signature by the name of Captain Barbell. It started when
they had a role playing in our room and he played the role of Captain Darna. How
could it be? He acts like a gay (but he’s not) and holds a dumbbell as he
shout "Captain Darna". Anyway, darnas and capt.barbells are the GNCians. They,
we, possess different powers, different talents, different personalities and
abilities. But somehow, we (including me) don’t know how to use these
dominions as opposed to waste it and throw in cans of garbage. How can we have a
prosperous and lasting GNC if we are kind of students who only care of
themselves and not of the others? Where is the responsibility? Things were left
undone. Rizal, too, emphasized that youths are the only hopes of this falling
nation. And it should be with me and you. We should learn.
FROM CLASSIC TO ROCK MUSIC…..
Bands…a vocalist, lead guitarist, bassist and drummer. With these four
members, a band can craft their own music. Who must be the songwriter? note
placer? melody formulator? I think it is the band leader-the vocalist. Voice is
much needed than other sounds. Without melody, a song can be sing. But, you
can’t make a song without a lyrics. Right? Do you know Maksim? A piano player
who strikes the keyboard as fast as he can as if the piano can sing. It seems
like the notes are speaking. He made me believe that music is not just with
lyrics but on how it is played. One of his great piece is "Flight of the Bumble
Bee". One more thing I want to tackle is the hard metal music of
Metallica.
From the word METALLICA you can probably think of a noise. Music is against
noise but, music is my noise. Every strum a heavy strum, a dangerous sound,
makes me alive. Whenever I hear this rock music, my head bangs and in my heart
beats together with the drum. I love rock music. It is my passion. Thus, music
and noise are responsible of keeping people alive. Without music, life dies.
APOSTLE TO THE GENTILES…
No other than St. Paul. He spread the good news of our Salvation, wrote
some epistles, and encourage his men to be servant of Christ. What is the
difference of apostle and disciples? It’s for you to guess. Let’s go back to
our values classes. I could say that he’s better than the scribes, Sadducees,
Pharisees and teachers of the Law. Still, he acknowledge himself as nothing, a
servant of God. This meekness is a kind of responsibility from humility to
lowliness. He had the great mercy for the unsaved souls. We, too, are tasked to
be herald of good news but never place yourself as the god. We are servants not
Master. This time, don’t let your selfishness smothered you. If this happen,
you’ll be struggled with God’s wrath for He is fair.
INTO YOUR HANDS…
When we had our vocational talk, we are told of this story. Others reflect
and others understand it and others know it well. A young man, way to his
school, was amazed with this dove on his head. He doesn’t know what he should
do with this dove. Minutes passed and he had a plan. The plan goes like this
"I’ll place this dove on my back with my fingers on its head. I’ll twist it
if the beggar guesses the dove was dead and if not, I’ll let it fly freely so
that the beggar will see how lively the dove was". So, he went on the front of
the chapel performing his trick. He asked the beggar as the plan proposed. The
beggar said, "Into your hands, the judgment will be. If I’ll say the dove is
alive, you’ll twist its head as opposed, you’ll let the dove fly if ever I
would tell you it’s dead". Here, the decision is ours. Are we going to twist
its head o let it fly?
PEN, A SWORD…
Not all of us are good writers. To unleash the beast, one must have info,
facts, determination and a heart-a heart of justice and fairness must work on us
and sprint our dangerous mind for every word to be written is more potent than a
two-bladed sword. One late night, it was already 11:00pm when I finished all my
stuffs for tomorrow’s activity. I had released my energy and tried to look
some food stored in the refrigerator. I ate and rested for a while. Before lying
in my bed, I opened up the T.V. and searched channels. I was inspired when I
heard news as regards the journalism. It is more than responsible journalism.
Writing is a battle that when you go through, you can’t easily leave. So, here
I just wanted to clear to every reader that it is not easy to write. It takes
too much time. We need our palms and fingers get wounded to manifest truth. That
is how writer should write.
A WARRIOR IS A CHILD…
"They don’t know that I come running home when I fall down. They don't
know who picks me up when no one is around." These were likely most with the
words of David, son of Jesse. He fell. He rose. He fought. That's how he lived.
Are you aware of what cause David’s fall? A three-letter word which brought
him down, it’s SIN. Nevertheless, God restored his conviction until time told
him to pay. Pay the price and win. The bigger price would mean the bigger
triumph, the bigger responsibility to handle.
"I drop my sword and cry for just a while, ‘coz deep inside these armor,
a warrior is a child". Everyone has the weakness, he may be strong but this is
not the basis for being perfect. So, leave to God all things we can’t
do.
THE CHALLENGE¦
Will you be the next Teng? What will you do with the dove? Are you
going to follow the footsteps of St. Paul? How will you rock your world? Were
your pen serves your sword instead, of blood? Is David's spirit in you?
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