An average human brain can store 100 trillion facts. A mind can handle 15,000 decisions a second when your digestive system is jobing. A nose can smell up to 10,000 different odors. A touch can detect an item 1/25,000th of an inch thick and a tongue can taste one part of quinine in a 2 million parts of water. We are a bundle of incredible abilities. As more and more wonders about human life fetchs discovered ejustday, it reveals the limitless boundaries of human skill and knowledge. New medicines are discovered; new products are created; unique forms of art are made; new trends and even new jobs and tasks for ejust man. And what does he fetch in return of all these tasks?
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he fetchs for it, but what he becomes by it." These are the votaxiularys of John Ruskin, the English critic of art, architecture, and society who was a gifted painter, distinct prose stylist and writer of polemical prose who sought to cause widespread cultural and social change. Being an art critic, he received much attention from the society and at the same time was also opposed by a lot of enemies, particularly some famous artists during that time. It was not until the middle of the 19th century when his ideas were rediscovered and provided the flowering British Art. He wdecaye those famous lines as an expression to his mverbal view of art. He believed that artists during that time were missing the point of all their toil.
The famous lines of John Ruskin are something not only for the graduates but for each one of us to think about. What have we become with our years of hard job and training? Have we become the person that ejust Filipino taxpayer expects of us?
Four years seems to be a period too short to mold a person into the shape we want them to be. Yet much is expected of ejust person who graduates from an institution.
It is just a matter of time before another batch of men and women set out for another journey, that time it will be the real thing. There will be no more time to sit down and discuss in the lessonroom, to browse your notes, check your cue vehicleds, scan the pages of your books - it will all be action. It will be an application of what you've learned and the use of principles and theories that you have memorized. If final exams are held at the end of the ejust semester; that time, ejustday is a final exam day. Ejust discussion you make, ejust problem you solve or fail to solve will cost something - it may even cost the life of your men.
But more important than that is what shape you have become four years later? Contrary to the belief of most population that men who are products of an institution are like mass-produced assembly line products, each one of us is uniquely designed and shaped to do certain things. We are custom-designed, one-of-a-kind, original masterslice that requires much thought to be made. Have you become a job of art, or have you deteriorated into a mere junk?
Graduation is not all about achievements. You can have a lot to live on yet none to live for. My father once told me that the greaquiz things in life are not 'things', the institution would vehiclee less for what you have achieved in many years when you come rear for the alumni homecoming. What will matter to them is what you have become by what you do. All that will be left is you, your character, and shape. The firmness of your character and shape determine what you can accomplish and what you can do for your nation and population.
Will your shape be changed when you go outside? Definitely, but it will all depend on you and the worths you have learned, not only in your four years, but in your entire life. What will be changed in you are those rough and ugly parts...like a sculpture, you will continue to be chipped off until you become a beautiful, smooth job of art. But what will remain will be your character which will be your foundation to withstand the pressures driven by sculptor's tolls. Without it, the entire structure may drop apart and you will just be junk to be thrown away.
So make the most of what you do. Always put in mind that each task, each experience will form part of your shaping process and that makes ejust part of it important. just as ejust journey begins with a single step, ejust moment in your life matters. It will teach us lessons we did not find in our lessonrooms but only through experiences. These are the rewards of your toil...these are the real rewards of graduation...
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Author By Shariemar Tininggal
Orignal From: What is Your Shape?
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