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SLP Reflection Paper
SLP Reflection Paper
ORSEM facilitator every year, ACP volunteer, ADSECOM volunteer during enrolment days, but
then, in almost 4 years of doing it, I grew tired. I never did what I did just for myself, I always
thought of the greater good. As an officer, I always thought of how I can make the life of my
fellow ECE students easier, but doing so, doing all these, I made my life harder for myself, until
such time that I thought maybe I should give more time for myself for now and that was my
greatest regret. Magis, that is what Ateneo has always been preaching since Day 1. Living life
with magis is addictive and suddenly to live a life without it almost made me feel so empty and
useless. The time I stopped caring for others was the time I started to live without magis and it
really consumed me. Because living with magis is living with God and a life without magis is a
life without God.
I think Ateneans are just made to be this way doing things with excellence and doing it for
others. There are many ways to help others especially the poor people but the most that we can
do for them is to empower them. Money is temporary, food is temporary, happiness is
temporary, but education is permanent and no one can steal that from them, and one way we can
help the poor truly is by giving them education and I dont think that I am the right person who
can do that, but it is you, the University and perhaps even the government. Not that we dont
want to help the poor but because there are institutions that are more capable of doing something
greater than what we can do collectively. So, please stop giving us this burden of what we should
do to help the poor but instead give those poor but deserving students the kind of education that
they truly deserve perhaps more than what most students of this university does.
Practice what you preach. Dont challenge me, challenge yourself; unless Ateneo is just one big
business teaching us things and principles they cannot live themselves.