A Summary
Of the story of my life .
My father is a man of principle, while my mother is a typification of sacrifice. Growing up, I didn’t notice being a hybrid representation of them both. Grade school was about me finding satisfaction in grade cards and medals alone. To be always on the top of the class , and to never stop on winning awards — that was my principle. In secondary education, I changed after I got into an even more academic-centered school. I found myself in the pursuit of love and happiness. The torrent of my heart’s emotions dragged me from one relationship to another. I would always find myself sacrificing one thing for another. In search for fulfillment in life, my health and education was sometimes compromised.
Indeed, I was happy. But I wouldn’t call it genuine. Because it always didn’t seem to last. Besides failing to find the meaning of life, family trials come, too. And I never got used to seeing my father being involved in road accidents.
Then there comes the turning point in my life. Watching a famous movie in the cinema with my friends, I never imagined the next happening to be my most amazing lifetime event. I met someone whose name I would always see, and whose teachings I would always hear. I’d like to call him JC, but He is popularly known as Jesus Christ. Despite me sounding religious right now, I’ll disclaim that notion right away. Because meeting Him didn’t feel and look like a religious occurence at all — it was a personal encounter.
I am now a student in De La Salle University, given the privilege of a full scholarship. I was someone who kept on digging my own holes and searching for love in the wrong places, only to realize that love that has already found me 2000 years ago — and this same love filled the hole in my heart. Christianity is a relationship, not a religion.