To Be or Not to Be

To mark things or not to make

Ranges shake the one who can take

If we endure the life of integrity

Or forgetting the life of decency.

To be candid or to be a snake

Sweet is the swamp with its riddles

For thou we shall pick what we are

To better or to worse.

All of this am I

I go my way unheeding

Never knowing where

My footsteps may be leading.

I am not you, you are not me

It is my line, this is your approach

Whether we choose better or worse

Let your hand pick, to be or not to be.

Sports: An Essential Portion in a Student's Life

Imagine a life without any sports or exercises. I think it will be very boring and mind-numbing. Even the students who are very active in study life will also feel boredom or dullness in their life without it. Without any sports in life can make anything dull and numb. It can turn a colorful world a pale one. In short, without sports, it can destroy the stability in our life.

Sports are very essential to everyone, especially to the students. It makes a student to improve his/her capability to carry out daily tasks with vigor and vigilance without under fatigue and with ample energy to enjoy leisure times. A good level of fitness to a student is essential for leading a vigorous life. It provides us energy to do anything and makes us lively in participating in class. We will not be active in any of the events in school when we do not have enough vitality and power to do such things.

To maintain everything in balance, we must offer a time to have exercise or perform sports. That’s why there is such kind of activities in school. Intramurals is one of the activities in school wherein students can perform any sports they want, like basketball, volleyball, badminton, table tennis, chess, sepak takraw, discus throwing, javelin throw, patintero, and many more. These sports provide balance, not only balance but also activeness in our life. That is the importance of sports in a student’s life.

Which is More Important: Fluency in English Language or Mastery of Native Language?

Language in a person is very important. It’s been a part to everyone’s life. For me, language is defined as the human capacity for acquiring and using complex systems of communication, and a language is any example of such a system of complex communication. It reflects the culture of a certain place or country. We are using language for communication, to inform people around us of what we think, what we feel, and what we wish for. Being capable to communicate to others forms bond, affiliation, and teamwork. But many Filipinos ask themselves for only one question regarding language: what is more important, fluency in the English language or the mastery of the native language?

The importance of language isn’t much different whatever our nationality is. In our country, we always use Filipino to communicate to other Filipino citizens. We are using it for better understanding. We can understand more if we are using Filipino language. Even our parents introduce first our native language to us because it is the root of all our communications in our country. We can understand more about the other languages if we master first our native language. But, if we were to communicate to other countries, we are using English language. It is because English language is what we call the “Universal Language”. Most of the countries are using English language for businesses and transactions. Without it, our communication to other countries will be harder.

I have been concerned in many languages. Our language is the most important part of our identity and life. I think it is more important to learn our own mother tongue because this is one of the most important parts of our identity. For me, if we lose our own language, we will not be complete. Our identity will just be unknown therefore it is nonsense if we lose our mother tongue. We are losing the most important part of ourselves.