DELA VEGA, LYKA JANE G.

BSA-BLOCK 10

“I am a Filipino”
By Carlos P. Romulo

We, as a Filipino, lead a life of a glorious past which was paid by the blood of many heroes,
and now their sacrifices produced the benefits of freedom and democracy. Being a human, we
don’t know whatever our future. Future is uncertain and we will never understand it, unless it
happens.

Going back to our history, indeed, we are of a lasting race or a heavy race – generations of
men that were frail as their hearts were brave– carriers of a mighty swell of hope – hope in the
land that was to be their home and their children’s forever.

Hence, this is the land where the strength of our hearts and hands runs the immortal seeds
that flowered down to centuries in deeds of courage and defiance. Just as how our heroes who
fought for the rights and freedom in our county, and because of that immortal seed and within us
it lies as a mark of being a strong person.

Yes, we are a Filipino. We are the product of the sacrifices of our ancestors. We should be
proud being a Filipino because we are a fighter. In our blood runs the immortal seed of heroes, we
fight for what is right and fight for our family. In our veins yet pulses the same hot blood that sent
Lapu-Lapu to battle against the alien foe, it runs to our blood the symbol of dignity.

Thus, the seed we bear as the insigne of our race, and generations is a stage in the unending
search of people for freedom and happiness – we are inheritors of the past, hostage to these
uncertainties of the future. As such, it’s a must that we live to prove equal of a task to meet our
responsibility to live up to the glorious past made possible of our heroes, and the task that we to
perform our obligations to make it in the future. We must live to provide and serve for the common
good and welfare of our people in as much to live up to generations of our children just as our
ancestors lived with a frail heart but of a heart were stout carrying a mighty swell of hope forever
in their children. Being a child of these people, an inheritor of a glorious past and looking up to
reach into these uncertainties of life, I am a Filipino, in me grows the seed to be enduring and eager
to struggle for liberation for the community. That I must start moving to wake and shape choices
to where the destiny waits. Our country has undergone many challenges, from being run by the
leader’s dictatorship until we became into a democratic country. We Filipinos also have developed
our own culture, values and beliefs where in this may become one of the reasons why we are
considered as Filipinos, not only because we are born in the Philippines.

As what Ninoy and Cory Aquino had once said, “The Filipinos, regardless of their flaws,
are worth dying and living for.”