It’s three
o’clock in the morning, the first day of July 2012 and I can’t get myself to
sleep. Two hours of incongruous movement did nothing. Lullabies are for babies.
Had I listened to tunes of whatever genre, I would’ve sung with the songs. I
thought I have gotten over insomnia; it seems it got worse. In the most
desperate attempt to rest a restless soul in a worked up body, I ironically
turned on my laptop (studies show that the light emitted by electronic devices
especially computers causes sleeplessness) in the midst of my snoring brother,
in the darkness of an ungodly hour and write myself to deep slumber.
Allow me to
sound ambitious as to state that probably a lot of you are wondering what
became of the A.B. Classical Major in Philosophy graduate of the University of
Santo Tomas (I myself still get chills just by reading that honorific title).
To walk you through, I am now a law student of the University of Baguio. What
transpired between graduating in UST and enrolling in UB is marked by
indecision (yes, the philosopher, after a rigorous education of favoring the
most reasonable and standing by it, cannot make up his mind). I have this huge
dream of one day becoming a diplomat, a historian and politician by interest.
Months earlier, I have dismissed the idea of ever becoming a lawyer, always
stressing to my parents the profession’s proclivity to unsatisfactory business.
They seemed to understand and just backed me up. However, days before the
official start of another school year, while waiting for school and job
applications, I was deported to the City of Baguio. Fearing and succumbing to
parental instincts as regards their once sickly, favorite child, my parents
thought it was time for me to stop brushing them aside i.e. claiming
independence. Practicality itself demands my subjection.
***
Paradoxically,
philosophy has damaged me, yet it has remained to be my consolation. The alethea of being is a beautiful
phenomenon that one must not only be drawn to a singular aspect of it but to
the totality of what is being revealed! The focus to the individual facets gave
birth to what we now know as particular sciences. It is for this reason that a
philosopher is potentially everyone,
a potentiality which consists a longing to be! In other words, knowing what it
is to be in someone else’s shoes makes a well-rounded man. Indeed, a
philosopher is a restless entity not in the sense of trying to be everyone but to be everyone. My journey starts in the field of law.
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