In
the Garment Capital of the Philippines of Taytay, Rizal in a school named Siena
College of Taytay there is a boy in Senior High, studying this today until the
very day, this boy has fun and plays. After all, Senior High is the place one
shall taste, the challenge of life, and be prepared for the future’s fate.
Senior High
School (SHS) is the phase of a student’s life where students are prepared.
Their talents and specialized skills are being honed and developed in
preparation for college and their future career in the real world. Students who
graduated from Grade 10 may choose the strand of their liking and pick the
course that is best suited for them. The stage of senior high school life is
important as it serves as a transition between the boundaries of their past and
of their future. It sets the stage for future possibilities to soar on and
pursue greater heights.
As of writing
this essay, I am currently a Grade 12 senior high school HUMSS (Humanities and
Social Sciences) student at Siena College of Taytay. As a Grade 12 graduating
senior high school student, I have faced and overcome many challenges and
trials during my school career. Challenges in school and in my personal life
have put my strength, skills, and my emotions, and mind at their wit end. And
in those experiences, I have learned a lot of things that had made a
long-lasting impact and made a mark on my life. Specifically, in the last three
(3) months of my SHS 2022 experience, from the third month of the year until
May.
In these
periods, I have embarked on the most grueling and challenging moments and
memories that are still ongoing in my SHS life that had put me in the lowest
points and hardest of breakdowns; I am currently a part of a very stressful
professional mind-intensive academic competition, My Dad is diagnosed with an
incurable disease and is in dialysis that is possible to be forever, we are in
a steep bad financial situation and lastly, I am extremely distressed, I am
having trouble in managing my situation right now due to stacks and stacks of
problems and responsibility that I am not used to. It’s like a game, I see that
the problems that I have today are far too above my league. It is extremely
heavy for me that in many cases I have tripped and fallen, gotten chained, and
gotten slowed. I have been battling myself now, my mind and memory are not in a
good state. The way I do things, especially like what is happening right, I
have far too wasted my time, I have missed lots of opportunities and I work on
things far too slow. And this is not simply a realization of oneself but rather
also the culmination of observation of the people around seeing how I act like
how my dad told me that “Even if you have the greatest quality and experience,
it means nothing if you lack productivity”. This is a problem that I am aware
of since the beginning but have difficulty addressing it. I realize that I am
far too limited and in my current situation I am still weak. However, I know
that I am strong, but I cannot just leave the thought that I feel that when I
motivate myself — I only keep on lying instead.
But even in
these hard times and soul-breaking moments. I always remember in my mind that I
should never lose any hope because if hope is lost then what will it be for my
future? In these difficult moments I cope and deal with my problems, I
rose, develop new tactics and stand on my ground and take on the ravaging
storms and achieve a champion’s victory. The battlefield has changed, if in the
past I am on the battle of Thermopylae, right now, I am in Vietnam engaging in
guerilla warfare, the warzone is unconventional, and this is very
unpredictable. It is better to say that I am promoted from my past life and today
my life had stepped to another level. It has become more dynamic, and more
complex compared to the linear way how my problems work in the past. In a
nutshell, there are more problems and responsibilities I am being challenged
with today.
Nevertheless, during
these times I have realized many things about myself in my limitations and my
weaknesses and how I repeatedly failed to address and make changes. I have
learned that every challenge has a purpose as it is God’s plan. I must consider
ensuring quality work in the shortest time (maximum productivity in great
quality) because whenever I work on things like this essay, I tend to take it
as overbearing and work with my tasks longer than it is supposed to be and when
that happens the longer I do things the quality deteriorates and put great
stress and burden in my mind and body because in the mix of your current
problems there is that parasitic task that puts burden in you that you should
have done two weeks ago.
Next, I learned
that I need to see my challenges as an inspiration and not a great burden. I
often see my task as a burden that drags me down though I know it is my
responsibility and it is not right. Most of the time when I do this, I fail to
assess the real difficulty of the task. Therefore, failing to manage my time,
resulted in many missing tasks. At the same time, when I see or mistake the
challenge as very hard, I overthink and become slow in working things because I
feel that it is very hard. I have that tendency to overthink and see my problems
as harder than they should be “Sometimes the fear of doing something is more
difficult than the task itself” It is significant that I need to change my
mindset if I want to succeed in my life. Overthinking and seeing my task as a
burden is not good with time management as it just slows me down. I must use it
as inspiration if I want to go beyond my limits and achieve my dreams.
Lastly,
overcome yourself and defeat your defeat. In those experiences, I have also
realized the strengths that I am strong, and I can really do it! But at the
same time, I have been humbled by my limitations, I lack the skills, I lack the
brainpower needed, I am impulsive, impatient, and slow, I forget things and I
am very lazy. And these factors are what drag me down in my life dealing with
my challenges. But overall, I have my fair share of strengths and
weaknesses and it takes discipline, perseverance, and action to get and achieve
your dream. If you really want to become someone in the future, then you have
the responsibility to work on it and don’t stop. And at the same time, learn
from your mistakes and use them to become a much greater person and defeat your
inadequacies. I need to defeat my slowness in things for I believe that the law
of the jungle is Matira ang Matibay!
Challenges in
life are there for a purpose, If I did not accept those challenges, I wouldn’t
be here today strong and smiling. If I didn’t take upon those challenges, I
will regret the choices I made. I will be very depressed and sulk with bad
emotions. I will become distressed and distraught, but it won’t make me a
weaker person. For the pains that I have experienced there may be scars but
only make me tougher and stronger. There are negative and bad times during
those experiences like anxiety and breakdowns. Nevertheless, there are more
positive things from the side of those challenging experiences. The trials that
have hardened and broken me have made a positive yet also a negative bearing on
me. It is positive because I have realized the things I need to improve from my
strengths and weaknesses and negative because it’s kind of physically and
mentally affected me. I know as I said again and again that challenges are
there for a purpose and we cannot neglect the negative effects of these
challenges. In the final moments now, I feel like I am hanging on a tightrope,
my mind is dizzy, and my body feels lazy and very tired. Although I undergo
these negative side effects I can’t stop because if I stop then nothing won’t
change, and I will just stay the same, a normal and an average person. I am an
excellent person, what I am having today is a process of breakthrough testing
my body and mind, my will, perseverance, and determination.
I am 18 years
old, and I think that the challenges that I was exposed to in the last 3 months
of my SHS 2022 life were a great opportunity. It is rare for Senior High School
Students those the same age as me to receive the same benefits as I have. What
I want to be in the future is a great profession, I aim to become an
International Lawyer and a Filipino business magnate. And with the training and
the experience, I have accumulated during my trials. It had awoken and prepared
me for the possible challenges that I will face in the future. There are
moments in times when I just want to give up and rest I try to cope and make
excuses to justify my problems. I think that what I have endured is very
difficult and a notable personal achievement. “Life is never made unbearable by
circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.” (Victor Frankl). Enjoy
your life! And conquer your challenges! Always stay safe! And Blessed Be God
Forever!
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