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| “Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.” |
- Richard L. Evans
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For me when you say hero the first thing that comes to my mind is someone who take risks to protect others without asking for anything in return. It is an unconditional act wherein you think of others before yourself. When you ask something in return for a good deed it diminishes the value of the deed because you expect payment or you do the act because you expect to gain something for your benefit. Oftentimes, we connote a hero to someone with great strength, maybe because we often think of a hero as the defender and protector, someone who can shield us from harm and danger. In war, the hero is the one who wins the war for us, who is someone in the forefront of the battlefield, someone like Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Aguinaldo or Lapu-lapu. Jose Rizal, was a different kind of hero, his mind was his strength, his pen was his sword. At first, one will think twice why Rizal was a hero, he was not a warrior, he did not defend the country in the battlefield like Bonifacio did. He gave heroism a different meaning, you can be a warrior without being violent, and you can be a defender and take arms silently. When you think of unconditional deed, the best person we can associate it with, is our parents. They protect, defend and think of our welfare without asking something in return. We oftentimes took them for granted and think that as parents it is their responsibility and obligation to protect us. Yes, it maybe a responsibility but they always have an option not to and yet they always opt to do so. We should be thankful that we have someone who like our parents who think of us before themselves, who makes us their priority, who wants to provide us with the best things in life. For that we should always be grateful.
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"How many hopes and fears, how many ardent wishes and anxious apprehensions are twisted together in the threads that connect the parent with the child! "
- Samuel Griswold Goodrich
My most favorite tale is the “The Wife of the Bath’s tale”. I like it because of how the story revolves. I think it is very unique from the other tales. It made me really think what women desires. I never thought that marriage is what the old woman wants. Like what others say, “Expect the unexpected” because I was shocked to find out that the old woman is a fairy. She is right about what women desires because it is what she gets from her husband. To have sovereignty is what most people want but others fail to achieve it.
From the beginning of time women really finds a way to make man follow them. What could have been our life if Adam did not follow the desire f eve to eat the forbidden fruit? Mothers have a way of making us do what they wishes. We obey them; we know that is for our own good but nonetheless they still get us to do what they want. They disguise themselves as damsel in distress yet they are stronger than men. They make it look like that we, men protect them when they are in need but it is them who protect us. We may never notice it but they do are very protective especially with the men they love, sons, brothers, husbands and even friends. Surely we can say that behinds a man success is a woman.
