My grandson, Albert Janwin Celera Cudal, first born son of Lilibeth Celera and BenHur Soriano Cudal, wrote this article and delivered it during the graduation rites of the Philippine Science High School in Tubod, Lanao del Norte, Philippines. It warms my heart to read a grandson’s insight on the role of parents gained from his own experience. Albert, whom we fondly call “Janiboy,” is growing up to be quite a young man with his own ambition and aspirations. He is presently enrolled at the Mapua Institute of Technology and exploring the field of robotics in Mechanical Engineering.
Have you seen
birds nourish their young? They lay their eggs in their nest and when it
hatches they feed it, protect it and defend it from predators. They also teach
their young to fly when it's old enough and when the young is ready, they leave
their nest, and they go out to the world and soar high in the skies, and live a
life of their own.
Our parents are like birds, nourishing us from
the start - in our mother's womb, and when we go out, they shower us with every
nourishment that they can give. They nourish us physically, spiritually,
morally and many other forms of nourishment that they can give.
Our parents protect us from everything that may
be harmful to us. They protect us from sickness, danger and most importantly
the evils of the world that we live - the predators of our society. They will
do everything to keep us in the right path of life. Our parents discipline
us. It's the way they protect us from the evils of the world. So let
us not be angry when our parents discipline us. Instead listen, and put it into
heart. They're protecting us, teaching us, and they're loving us. Disciplining is the most
unique and powerful way that our parent show their love for us.
Our parents raised us in our
very beautiful nest - our sweet home. Our home is a place of love and
dreams. It's a place where you can always go to, a place to share and celebrate
your triumph, a place where you can shed your tears but always have a shoulder
to cry on. It's the place where we learned love. It's the place where we first
knew God. It's the place where we learned our first lessons It's the place
where we build our dreams and ambitions. It's the place where we learned the
most essential things in life - good values which help us in facing the
challenges of life. All of these good things are inculcated to us by
our dear parents. It's the home where our parents raised us to be upright
persons. Persons that is ready to face the world and the challenges of life.
The home is engineered by our parents but the home cannot be created without
us. It's a place that we and our parents have created.. Home is our family.
In behalf of the Graduating Class 2006, I,
Albert Janwin Celera Cudal would like to express my heartfelt gratitude and
utmost love to you, our beloved parents for everything, for equipping us with
values that we will need in facing the harsh world, for protecting us, for raising
us, and for sacrificing for us.
For providing us a home, a family that we can always go back to, for providing
us with our needs, for giving us the gift of knowledge that we acquire by going
to school, and most importantly for loving us; loving us unconditionally for
with your love we experience God's love. You, our parents are the greatest gift
we received from God. You are our heroes.
So my dear fellow scholars, let's fly and soar
high for our parents for our success is their success and our happiness is
their happiness. Let's not waste their hardships and dreams for us.