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   What really comes next to college graduation?

   Some says, "career work, of course".  Others may say, "venture for a fruitful life and greener pasture...".

    I wish i'm in either situation. But, hey, i'm going nowhere. I'm just bothered and very alarmed of the present experiences i am into right now--- life after tertiary education.

    Indeed, lookng for work is difficult--- exciting though--- while waiting for acceptance is much more difficult--- frustrating sometimes. This doesn't mean the end of everything. Good thing i'm not a highly-pessimist kind. However, not that very optimistic. I'm not in between. I have a place, certainly not inbetween--- constructive optimism. Even, i'm unsure of where my philosophy will lead me. I simply am very hopeful. That's it... one good deal of HOPE.

   Well, let's just see what comes next after all the efforts i've put into my doing.

   I just really miss the posting. This blogging relly helps. I don't know why but i certainly know how. Well, besides that i will just key in the words on the keyboard i can immediately undo the errors in the previous portions of my writing unlike in writing using paper and pen. But, paper and pen most often than not helps me much in relieving anxieties. I don't know why? Perhaps thats the great therapuetic effect of curving lines and stroking the ink down into the paper. Maybe their is great transition in letting your hand decode the complex pattern of your brain.The sight of the lefted marks are simply a great manifestation of releasing the inner thoughts you have. Hey! i'm talking now of the "WHY"!

   Realization............................... I guess..............................................

   Okay. Just like the way writing eases your tension-prone mind, let your hopes do the same. Dream, plan, effort and HOPE.

    Just an insight:

    During our baccalaureate, well the gospel reading for graduating classes is almost the same only that the homilies differ--- the reading is all about the parable on the prodigal son---, i almost cried. Well, i just felt crying near the end of the homily. But, one of my friend, seeing him from, an elevated portion of the venue, afar, really cried almost at the middle part of the homily. The homily started by giving great achievement done by Flipinos and added was a  statistical result showing the current status of the most corrupt countries in Asia and Philippines, from its being ranked as 2nd, ascended to 1st. The priest says his congratulations to all who have helped for such a great achievement. What an irony? Simple sarcasm. He proceed... talking to us, the youth. Then, in the middle part, he read a letter written by a Korean student, schooling in the philippines. He added that "Koreans and other non-English speaking Asians study english in the Phlppines is not because of the quality but because education here is cheaper." The letter tackles the comparsion of the way Korean love their country and the way Flipinos love their country. It includes the things the Philippines are blessed of that they, Koreans, don't actually have. Before their came a point that each Korenas are wishing to be a Filipino because of the drastic grasp of poverty all over ther country. Yet, they are far affluent now compared to the Philippines. Nearing the end of the Homily, the priest challenges us, saying "What has become of the youth today? How rotten are there voices? How should you prove...   ....that this letter is wrong? ...that the oldies are wrong not trusting you? ...that you are correct in the best of your endeavors?  ...that the statistics about youths' passivism and intolerable deliquency are wrong? ...that their is still HOPE for every Filipino to love his/her country? 

    Perhaps, what comes next to graduation is a simply four-letter word with great meaning, HOPE.

    HOPE for better lives, HOPE for better changes, HOPE for development, HOPE for unity, HOPE for loyalty, HOPE for love, HOPE for the children, HOPE for the youths, HOPE for the parents, HOPE for all the adults, HOPE for all Flipinos, HOPE for the rise of the fatherland PHILIPPINES, and HOPES for the dying soul of national dignity.... they way we were before.