CHAPTER 12

One of the happiest moments of Rizal was his journey to Japan, in the land of
Cherry Blossoms. He stayed there for more than one and half month. He was amazed,
enchanted, mesmerized with the beauty of the land in Japan. The charming manners of
the people, and the sceneries that glows on you. Moreover, he met this girl, that is
modest and observably has an interest back at him. His heart is in sorrow, but he never
left nor gave up. Rizal fell with Seiko Usui, a Japanese woman that knows life skills.

Rizal is a hero for us. An inspiring story is he left even costing him a partner. The
life of Jose Rizal was a truly inspiring story. Not just as an ordinary story of a Filipino but
a story of a very intelligent and talented Filipino, who is ready to sacrifice his whole life
just to give freedom and peace to his family, and own nation. Rizal wants to remind our
young and future leaders that they are the future of the fatherland. Filipino youths these
days seems not live up to what Rizal wanted them to be. Regardless, the youths of
today are still the future of the fatherland but not the ideal youths that Rizal had hope.  

The life of Jose Rizal was a truly inspiring story. Not just as an ordinary story of a
Filipino but a story of a very intelligent and talented Filipino, who is ready to sacrifice his
whole life just to give freedom and peace to his family, and own nation. For one
semester, I’ve known who really Rizal is. It might not all about him, but those learning’s
and knowledge I learned, is enough to say to myself and to other Filipino and even not,
that he deserves to be what he has known for today.

In these times of crisis, we Filipinos would do well to look back at the code of
virtues Rizal abided by to help us put meaning to our own struggles for survival. Rizal
embodied and realized the best of what the Filipino can be.  His triumphs and struggles
even against the certainty of failure inspired the Katipunaneros to launch the Revolution
despite great odds, and realize Asia’s first independent Republic.

Rizal put a premium on the value of time, and to make good use of it he exerted
a constant effort to improve himself, investing much time and persistence in his own
education, taking up sculpture, painting, aside from the usual academics. He learned
other languages including German, even translating Schiller’s William Tell into
Tagalong.
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