My Philosophy - Be Like the Rain

This was a project in our philosophy class last semester..just reposting ;)

“Daan-daang larawan ang nagdaraan sa aking paningin, 

Daan-daang nakaraan ibinabalik ng simoy ng hangin ……

At sinong di mapapasayaw sa ulan…..” 

                                                                                           -Ulan, sung by Rivermaya

There is something in it that makes me comfortable.
It seems like I can always relate to it, yet it has its own elements that are also contrary to my own. 

Most people usually recount rain to sadness.

Yet for me, I feel happy when it rains, whether it is a light downpour or a heavy rainfall.

For one thing, I can sing as loud as I want (it is already raining when I start my singing acts...<^^,>).
I can really rest.

I don’t know, maybe that’s also the way I usually act when I’m sad
or worried or in any negative mood.
I just then look at those things that I still have and within my grasp,
since there’s nothing I can do about those that have passed and happened already.

Nevertheless, I also recognize sad moments.
Like the rain, I also pour and empty myself out on things that burden me.
I believe no one can keep all his problems by himself or herself.
Resembling the rain, those droplets of water will soon accumulate their way in the clouds,
so it’s better to just let these all go down than try in vain to stop these from falling.

FALLING – that’s another thing that I would like to learn from the rain.
It is not afraid to fall.
From high above those clouds, it finds its way back to the surface of this earth.
As it hits the ground, it has served its purpose. Or is it?

"Failure is an integral part of success,” our adviser told us during our second intro class
as engineering students. “Natural lang para sa isang engineering [student] ang
magka-bagsak na scores sa subjects niya”, he added.
For me, that idea of to fail is both really easy and really hard to accept.

It is very much easy as long as the failure on something concerns only ME.
I take full responsibility for the decision I make, and take initiative in admitting my faults.
For me, such situation is simple since it is something I can then ponder on myself.

What places me in difficulty is when other people count on me and I fail them,
especially if I know for myself that I could have succeeded.
I simply don’t want to let people down.

But the rain is remarkable.
In fact, the rain shows that falling is not the ‘supposed’ end of its journey,
for such is a part of that cycle of water existence.
All of it is a cycle, meaning it does not have a beginning or end.
The process can start anywhere.

Similarly in life, the idea of failing is something that exists naturally.
I believe it is something that I should just then be familiar to, just like success.
Besides, life is a so-called binomial distribution of possibilities – lose and win,
succeed and fail – where these possibilities are all up to me.
My point of view then, is to do my best in any undertaking, and if I fail,
make sure that I learn from it so as not to make such mistake again.
On the other hand if there will not be any chance of recovery from failure,
at least I have done my best, and that is more important.

Like the rain, I should then simply be brave. (<^^,>)

Yeehah. For Love and Peace.™