Lui, Grace Anne Ericka G.

ABM 12-O

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As an enthusiast of Carl Jaspers’ hope-filled death theory and the

religion’s promise of afterlife, I have foreground the thought in my mind that in this life, I

should step up and do something good so I can get a well-deserved reward called

heaven. During the years before, I was fully compelled to do things that would get me

where I want to be in the future. However, after having a handful of contemplations and

reflections on the lesson about what makes a good action a good one; and after being

enthralled with the consequentialist theory- which encourages the idea that an action

can be good so long as it is beneficial to the many, it dawned on me that this life,

despite it being mine from the head to the toenails, still needs to have a contribution on

other people’s lives. Furthermore, the question given only makes sense if I pin my mind

to that idea; after all, why should I need to know my place in the world if I don’t situate

myself between other people and beings? What’s the purpose of knowing my place in

this world if I do not have anyone or anything to do it for? And besides, we are indeed

social beings who cannot go through a day without establishing an interaction with the

world.

After going through an ambiguous deliberation and picking between the

probable choices I can take, it turns out that I have this passion and gut-felt calling to

teach people on how to better their lives, not through inspiration but through practical

impositions. I am not into putting people in a dream of beautiful life or in an emotional

burst, but I am a person who would target the mind, the thinking device inside us,

because it is the objective one and the powerful one. I have an inclination for public

speaking and I’m thinking that I could use this one day to share what I have to people
Lui, Grace Anne Ericka G.
ABM 12-O

so they can do the same with their lives. And by now, I will have to constantly improve

on my communication skills so that I can fulfill my purpose with utmost satisfaction from

myself and from other people. Aside from this, I do not have any other profound thought

in mind and in fact, I’m not even sure if there can ever be a tendency for this purpose to

change relative to my mindset and beliefs in the future. If the answer to that mystery is a

maybe or an “it depends”, then I will probably be answering the same thing because I

am quite sure that I am geared to go to the future with this mindset and belief. By this

time, the only thing that is missing is the heaps of work needed to do to accomplish and

finally fulfill the place that I want to belong in this world.