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31 March 2009


My Dear JC,


Time runs so fast and finally the long wait is now over. You have come to one of the most exciting phases of your life – your high school graduation. They say that nothing compares with high school life. Now that you have been through the four years of high school, what can you say then? What have you done with your high school life? Have you given it your best? Have you seen life from there? Have you prepared yourself for a good future?


Your future depends on how you live your life at the moment. Life is amazing. There is so much in life than what you are having now. There will be more wonderful things to come. Time will come that you will realize the meaning of your own moment. Each of your moments will come and you will shine beyond your own expectations.


There are so many things to be thankful for: your parents, for having supported you all through the years; your teachers, for having guided you along the way; your friends, for having inspired you to be your best; and most of all, God, for being there for you, for allowing you to experience the gift of life.


There may be times of difficulties, challenges, and misery. But let those times be times of learning and knowing. It is in experiencing that we learn best. We have books to read; we have exams to answer; we have problems to figure out; yet, what we do not have inside the four corners of the classroom is the best material for learning. We learn from our mistakes, from our follies, from our inadequacies.


Young as you are. You think that you know what life is. There may be times that you feel that your folks or your teachers are controlling your life. There are times that you feel that nobody loves you or nobody cares. You feel anger, hatred, or remorse. You feel alone, ignored, or despised. You feel you want to give up. It is but common with your age.


I have been through those tough times and it taught me a lesson or two. It is when we cry that we see our true selves. It is when we confront ourselves that we reflect on our strengths, our weaknesses, our limitations. Then we begin to know ourselves better. We begin to identify the domain of our personality: what can I do and what can I do best.


You are unique. What you are and who you are become synonymous. The interrelationship summons itself in time, when you begin to embark in your own journey towards self-discovery.


Life is amazing.

Live it to the full.

Find your own place under the sun.

Follow your dreams.


Don’t be sad because it’s over;

but be glad because everything happened.


And it happened for a reason…

That you and I will be part of each other; that you and I crossed paths.


God bless! Congratulations!


With all my love,

Sir Jerome
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