I like this song. Not because it was composed by a friend, but because I like its lyrics. Every time I listened to it then, I felt like its message was hitting me to the bone. I have liked to daydream, to articulate my thoughts creatively on a paper and to skygaze even when I was a kid. I thank God however, it did not take me too long to realise this truth--dreams are conceived in the head but are realised through actions. That is I need to act on a dream using at its maximum all my faculties and my senses and all the best possible resources at hand to see it come true.
At another plane, I could not just lock myself up in the laboratory if I want to count in one's life and vice versa. I need to go out and explore the world where I live, interact not only with the experimental organisms I work on but also with my fellow human beings.
The results indeed continue to amaze me. In the video above, I included pictures of me taken in the 2000s. I used the song Sa Ating Daigdig (In our World) as music background to remember facets of my life, As the song says, it's not in our dreams, not in our literary endeavours nor in the clouds (technically not in our brain) that we can find realisation of our dreams but in our physical world which naturally understandable as we are still flesh and bones.
I have found out that as I go and explore places, and interact with people around me, my outlook in life broadens and I am challenged to pursue higher endeavours and achieve more even in my mature years rather than jsut stay in my own shell. The process maybe slow and painstaking. However, it is only by taking risks that I am able to produce outcomes, positive ones that reinforce.me and negative ones that teach me.
As I continue to learn and explore the world around me and the opportunities it offers me, I feel like mining precious gems. I form relationships, some of which are wholesome and few that are hurtful, by the same token however, I consider these all more precious than gold, ie, as they sharpen me as a person. I learn values that have eternal bearing. I make use of my natural and God-given gifts, which through God's sustaining grace and my best energies enable me to achieve beyond what I am able to think or imagine.
Yes, in this world, there are no "kamaligs" but heaps of gold (not the gold bars which I have in my safe (oops! in the banks I should say), but rather opportunities to demonstrate that the love of God is in me, to do good to others and most of all to love myself, warts and all. And I know that as my life will draw to a close one day, I am hopeful that all of my efforts and labour when put to the test of fire , in the end, will come out as gold.
