3 months and 4 years ago, I was a freshman of UST taking up AB Communication Arts. New place. New school. New people. New challenges. Almost everything is new. I remember during our first semester as freshmen, we had a professor named Leah Estacio. She was our professor in Economics 101. One of the best professors I had. Normally, professors won't attend classes during the first week - but she's not like that. During our first day, she already entered our class and gave a short introduction about what she would be expecting on our next meeting. 1x1 Picture. Index Card. Notebook and an assignment. She is one of those professors that has the right to be strict (and sometimes discipline us) because she really teaches well and she makes sure that all of us are on our toes from 10am to 11am MWF. I thought I was going to fail her subject. Seriously. I felt like everything that I was able to achieve during HS no longer mattered every time I would come to her class. It was back to zero. I would study her subject on my way to school while riding LRT2 and I will do the same thing on my way home. I failed on my first quiz and vowed to do better. I memorized the definition of different terms in basic Economics without really knowing what it really means.
During all these pressures from just one subject, I recalled telling myself: Isn't this just a minor subject?
Then other reasons began to follow: I don't need this. I don't plan to be a businessman someday. I just need to learn to basics of managing money: Earn. Save. Earn. Save. Earn. Save. Avoid debts. I'm good to go, right? WRONG. Thank God I didn't give in to this kind of reasoning but it sure made some sense and during that time - it was a perfect reason for a perfect escape from studying her subject.
During my 4 years of stay in UST, with all humility and respect, I realized that there are subjects that I really don't understand why I needed to take. I didn't understand why I needed to study something that I won't use. Honestly, I didn't see the purpose of taking care of a hamster.
Back in 2012, during my second year in college, I wrote a blog entry entitled: "Classes Resume". It was about students no longer just coming to class to study but to build their dreams. It was about challenging students to wake up early and go to class so that they can start building their dreams early. It was a challenge to see "minor subjects" as avenues of personal growth and maturity.
Fast forward to the present. Still a fresh graduate and still unemployed but never losing hope. I decided (with the blessings and provisions from my parents) to rest for 2 months and go to different places to have a vacation. I went to Pampanga, La Union, Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Baler, Quezon, Tagaytay and Tanay.
I asked myself: Does my blog entry 2 years ago, after graduating, still applies to me? YES and NO.
No because I am no longer a student. Yes because I am still building my dreams and pursuing my purpose.
When I wake up in the morning and walk in a company for an exam and interview - I'm not just applying to their company - I'm not just building my dreams (you see when you get older, things start to get more detailed), I'm building my character, I'm testing my calling and pursuing my purpose.
A student and a working person have many differences but both of them have this in common:
They are both building their dreams on a daily basis.
I realized just now that building our dreams is messy. Building our dreams requires a lifestyle of not giving up - not on ourselves, not on our families, not on our loved ones. Building our dreams requires us to be deliberate and intentional. It requires time, money (but not all the money in world), effort and of course, God's Divine guidance.
It may be a different season for me but it is the same purpose and the same God to honor.
The question now is this: When does building our dreams end?
It doesn't end with a dream house. It doesn't end with a dream family. It doesn't end with dream wife or husband. It doesn't end with a dream job.
Let me answer that with another question:
Do you want a kind of dream that merely happens in your life time? Or do you want to see it in Heaven's point of view with the Master Builder telling you "Well done good and faithful servant"?
To complete the statement:
Build your dreams on a daily basis with Eternity's Perspective.
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
whose architect and builder is God.
During all these pressures from just one subject, I recalled telling myself: Isn't this just a minor subject?
Then other reasons began to follow: I don't need this. I don't plan to be a businessman someday. I just need to learn to basics of managing money: Earn. Save. Earn. Save. Earn. Save. Avoid debts. I'm good to go, right? WRONG. Thank God I didn't give in to this kind of reasoning but it sure made some sense and during that time - it was a perfect reason for a perfect escape from studying her subject.
During my 4 years of stay in UST, with all humility and respect, I realized that there are subjects that I really don't understand why I needed to take. I didn't understand why I needed to study something that I won't use. Honestly, I didn't see the purpose of taking care of a hamster.
Back in 2012, during my second year in college, I wrote a blog entry entitled: "Classes Resume". It was about students no longer just coming to class to study but to build their dreams. It was about challenging students to wake up early and go to class so that they can start building their dreams early. It was a challenge to see "minor subjects" as avenues of personal growth and maturity.
Fast forward to the present. Still a fresh graduate and still unemployed but never losing hope. I decided (with the blessings and provisions from my parents) to rest for 2 months and go to different places to have a vacation. I went to Pampanga, La Union, Vigan, Ilocos Sur, Baler, Quezon, Tagaytay and Tanay.
I asked myself: Does my blog entry 2 years ago, after graduating, still applies to me? YES and NO.
No because I am no longer a student. Yes because I am still building my dreams and pursuing my purpose.
When I wake up in the morning and walk in a company for an exam and interview - I'm not just applying to their company - I'm not just building my dreams (you see when you get older, things start to get more detailed), I'm building my character, I'm testing my calling and pursuing my purpose.
A student and a working person have many differences but both of them have this in common:
They are both building their dreams on a daily basis.
I realized just now that building our dreams is messy. Building our dreams requires a lifestyle of not giving up - not on ourselves, not on our families, not on our loved ones. Building our dreams requires us to be deliberate and intentional. It requires time, money (but not all the money in world), effort and of course, God's Divine guidance.
It may be a different season for me but it is the same purpose and the same God to honor.
The question now is this: When does building our dreams end?
It doesn't end with a dream house. It doesn't end with a dream family. It doesn't end with dream wife or husband. It doesn't end with a dream job.
Let me answer that with another question:
Do you want a kind of dream that merely happens in your life time? Or do you want to see it in Heaven's point of view with the Master Builder telling you "Well done good and faithful servant"?
To complete the statement:
Build your dreams on a daily basis with Eternity's Perspective.
Hebrews 11:10
For he was looking forward to the city with foundations,
whose architect and builder is God.
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