What a great day this was. I can't explain how happy I am, to the fullest. As in big time. No words can explain how this day made me realize how lucky I am. Gorgeously living in a world of freedom, credible of doing free wills and free rights at the same time, luxuriously high-faluting with my pompous life. Imagine living in a world full of blessings and surprises everyday.. So hey guys, stop messing up, make things better for you. You've still got a very long way to run. Life may be difficult at times, but please always bear this in mind: We are not imprisoned to jail, we are not sentenced for life, we are not given verdict of death penalty, we are not sacrificing nor struggling for our own families, just to see them smile. WE ARE NOT LIKE THEM, the inmates whom we had a fun filled interaction for today. Rather, we are plain students, children of our parents and children of God. Ergo, we should learn from others mistakes.
So, today is September 04, 2010. It's a Saturday I know. But we it's a must for us to go to school and join the immersion trip, we are going to Bilibid Prison Jail in Muntinlipa City. IKR. It's a tugs tugs tugs time.. Not because of excitement, but because of ohmygod. I am scared! :/ so yea, no choice man. We, 1PHL, together with the fellow freshmen artlets from 1ECO1, 1BES2 and 1LM1 had this what you call "experience", I am telling you, not an ordinary one, but an EXTRAORDINARY one, why so? We had this interaction with them for like, you know what I mean, 10AM to 4PM. Almost the whole day, spend 2 hours of conversation with a buddy inmate, who happened to be the President of the SBCC, named Kuya Dudong, who happens to be a Cebuano. I swear. I've learned a lot from him. So yea, I know, I promised this blog, so I have to tell the whole story, I get so interested and inspired by him. As in big time.
Imagine, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, for he committed frustrated murder. The probable reaction of yours might be "OHMYGOD". Yes, seriously, at the back of my mind that was my reaction. But, all throughout the conversation, I've come to find out why. It was self-defensibility, or should I say, for a friend's defensibility. He was just at the age of nineteen, when he did this crime, he was under temporary insanity for he used a gun to kill the man who aggravated his co-fraternity member. I exactly don't get it when he said to me that, he took the responsibility for all six of them during the murder thingy happened. He didn't tried defending himself all throughout the hearings in the courtyard and try throwing alibi for himself. The sad thing is this, it is a life imprisonment. He entered the jail during the year, 1990. When, I ain't a human yet. :P he's now living in the Bilibid premises for about twenty long years. Imagine? He continued his High School there, now he's a graduating student with a course of BS Commerce Major in Entrepreneurship. Life goes on inside the jail. He was at the Maximum area for he committed murder, but through his deeds and maybe determination to prove his worth, he was moved to that place where I've exactly talked to him. He is now 42 years of age, I told him, "Life begins at forty". And he laughed real hard. Anyway, I just want him to feel that he still got a long track. It isn't detrimental for him to lose hope, he can still go out of that place. I even asked him to choose, "Hindi ba po you were sentenced for life imprisonment, means to say, hindi na po kayo makakalabas dito?, Pero if given a chance, na makalabas po dito, would you rather stay here for the rest of your life, or masentensyahan na lang po ng death penalty which is now abolished?" Additional, "Ano po ba yung parol? Makakalaya naman po kayo because of that di ba?" These were my first two questions, as in quite hard to answer, something to think about. So, Kuya Dudong tried answering me as much as he could. I even asked him about his views on politics. Now I realized, why criminals and imprisoned people hates President Noy Aquino. I felt overwhelmed when he said, "Tamang kaliwete ka. Matalino ka kasi, tapos.. Talented ka pa". I get to share with him same side of me too, like, we're both Presidents. He told me I should be fair to everyone, treat them right. Plus, another factor.. Learn how to choose your friends. Based from experiences, it is not very advisable that we are to depend ourselves to them. We should learn how to drive our own wheels of life. At the end of that 2 hours of short conversation, I've come to realized that I stand correctly. "Not all who imprisoned inmates are criminals, sometimes or should I say.. Almost all of them were just there because of case injustices, self defense, and temporary insanity" Ergo, we should try to change our stigma against them. They are not harmful nor bad people at all, instead they are better than us. Honestly, they are these best people whom we can get right sources of wisdom, not ordinarily, nor created. But, based from experiences. Exactly, "Experience is the best teacher".
So now, I believe, first impressions really do not last. Instead, we should see and experience first before jumping into certain vague conclusions that would lead us to wrong perceptions in the true way of life. See, at first, really. I was scared, I was shivering, I do not want to encounter these people.. But yea, after listening and sharing insights with them is a BIG FACTOR. It changed my negative stigma on them, so now. What can do? What can we do, people?
Here, listen: The best thing that I can do is, encourage people like you, to change your stigmas about them, see for yourselves. Again, they are not harmful, but these good people whom we can get the best lessons in real life. Learn to be patient, do not be impulsive. :))
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