Christian Albert B. Paskil.

1-A5

"Literature, A Record of
Life"

There is more to our Philippine Literature subject than what I

expected and our professor,Mrs. Emilinda Rivera helped me to unveil all
of these. During my Senior High School days, I also took a subject related
to this, the 21st Century Literature and I can say that I learned so much
there but it is only now that I could have an in depth understanding of our
topics. I have realized that literature could actually be considered as an
integral part of human life. We started with the reasons on why we should
study literature. I personally do not have that much idea regarding this but
our eager professor helped us to realize to ourselves how important this
is. Our life can be reflected in a single piece of a literary composition. Our
own story can be told to others through the help of this which might help
us to gain a better understanding of ourselves, of others and of life as said
by Garcia. Instead of writing just to comply on our subjects, I already
found a very meaningful reason for me to write and that is for me to be
creative and to be able to reflect on how beautiful our life is and how
important it is to share this to others and be read by others so that they
could relate and at the same time be inspired with our own experiences.
Each composition is representative of someone's significant life event or
ideas, feelings and emotions worthy to be written and be read rather than
to just be spoken out loud. This could remain no matter how long the time
passes by just like when Rizal wrote his books. Despite how long already
it was when he created these, we can still read it now and learn from it
and have a better understanding of how the past looks like and how it is
like to live during that period.
Literature can also be our friend. We can write a diary in which we
could record how happy or sad we was during a specific time , it's like we
have someone willing to listen to us. Also we can learn from it. There are
bunch of information that we can get when we read a book, a magazine, a
newspaper an essay and others which can help us in our daily lives. This
info can be utilized in many aspects of life and not just in academics.
There are various types of it thus; there is also variety of choices by which
we could write our own experiences. I feel so enthusiastic whenever I
write a poem and that shows that we could also enjoy life because it’s all
that literature contains the story of human life and their experiences.
Reckoning the past is necessary for us to show our gratefulness to the
people who contributed so much to us. The lessons they share, the
experiences they gave us, and the ideas they thought us are worthy to be
thanked of. Literature has become part of our life so we have to treasure
them in a similar way. The persons behind our story, behind our success,
behind all our experiences, or downfalls and lessons in life deserve our
gratefulness and also to be remembered. To make sure that no matter
how long it already was, we can still remember them through writing, by
recording everything they shared to us that helped us and others to grow
as a person, in this way they could remain forever and never be forgotten.