Graduates’ remark!

Graduation Day

Sto. Domingo Church, Quezon City

March 23, 2004

AB Philosophy Batch 2002

In every change there is movement and in every movement there is change. Graduation is movement and change. It is movement – a becoming in every sense of the word as we grow to maturity. Yet this reality implies another movement, another beginning, another change.

Graduation is change – it is a passage by which we embark to greater heights, greater learning, greater appreciation of life and living without losing our very selves. As people of change, we seemingly find ourselves lost in the process only to realize that we gear towards something which will make us better. By experience, is it not the case that we find words senseless and complicating? But in the senselessness of the words we find complicating, we begin to discover meaning -- making these words and thoughts the foundation of our life’s principle.

Philosophy has taught us the power and gift of reason, not to feel better than others with what we know but to live the fundamental principles we have learned i.e. as we take part in building this world of meaning and purpose. For this, philosophy should be ancillary to faith in fulfillment and pursuit of happiness. Life’s journey is a continuous search and desiring until we come to that beyond which nothing else can be desired. As in the words of St. Augustine, “My heart is restless oh God, until it rests in you.”

Through the years of changes and movements we are grateful for people who have been witnesses and are still witnessing our every becoming. Words may not suffice but we humbly extend our gratitude to all of you for helping us realize our potentials and for bringing out our possibilities into actuality. Thank you.