By Jan Vicente B. Pekas
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The freedom of ideas to move around is an achievement that had demanded blood from many people before us. Even to this day, the people who guard this sacred right give more than effort and sacrifice. Now, no one needs to be an old and accomplished philosopher to give out great advice to young children. Any person’s experience from the past can bring to us many young folks needed advice and reminders to traverse an unknown future.
Opinions can be brought out and take with them our thoughts on any subject. And through certain mediums we can allow our voices to be spread and heard throughout the world.
Ideas, as we have seen in the past can be dangerous enough to topple entire governments and deadly enough to get the speaker killed. And it can pierce through a dark shroud brought upon by insidious propaganda. Suddenly removing the shackles on the minds placed by tyrannical rulers making people bow down and submit to them or another person.
Freedom of ideas opened our way to being creative. Whether it be in our jobs or in our day to day activity, thinking outside the box can take on any challenge. A student running late has to be more creative with his/her excuse to salvage whatever his grade in the report card. Even our drivers take the most unusual routes in getting around traffic to get to point B. That route most often is always the opposing lane, not one for the faint of heart.
Living with a person who has “Besao” blood flowing in his veins can teach a young kid the fine balance between cunning and rashness. All the tips and tricks of avoiding LTO or traffic officers waiting down the street are revealed. Although on some occasions, too much creativity can land you in an even deeper trouble than you already were. Which calls for an even more creative escape.
A lot of our routines these days are predictable. People go to school and try to survive while employees go and do their shifts. The same exact schedules every single day can bore us out of our minds very fast. Thankfully, life is unpredictable in what it may throw at us. We face different challenges every day, and we have the opportunity to be more creative.
Since ancient times, the smaller armies often had to resort to more unconventional tactics in order to take down a bigger army. They were resourceful, used everything around them to their advantage.
They were resilient in their battles, almost unwavering in the face of trouble.
Thinking outside the box is something we are all capable of. Though we don’t always follow through it and instead resort to safer conventional methods.
To transform this nation to what our forefathers wanted it to be, will be a gargantuan task. And the younger generation will definitely have a part in it. Sometimes, a challenge will require a bit of thinking on our part and brute force alone cannot solve it.
Underdogs are not always the favorite to win. But someone who always thinks and unafraid to try new things just might be capable of achieving more than he expected.
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