My Philosophy of Life

Image courtesy of Justine Lambert/Getty by Ronald Michael Quijano What are you most afraid of? Rats? Spiders?  Flying cockroaches - sometimes they assume that they are butterflies - or something to do with heights? Dark? Confined spaces? Whatever it is, surely, all of us have something to be afraid of. Among all those stimuli that might trigger your fear, there is this concept which all of us are a victim. Death. This perhaps is one of the common reasons why we believe in God, hoping for an afterlife. The belief in God is somehow an early attempt of humans to save himself from inevitable death. This is, somehow, evidence of human worshipping himself, constructing a goal of immortality.  Most of us can’t fathom the idea of non-existence. We tend to rely on our hope of a non-evident afterlife. But what does death really mean? For us to understand the concept of death, we must first comprehend the idea of purpose, existence, and meaning. Socrates, a well-known philosopher i

Front view of National Museum of Natural History, RIzal Park, Manila Philippines (September 5, 2018) By Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT              I happened to visit the National Museum of Natural History in the heart of Metro Manila. It is located along Agrifina Circle in Rizal Park. To give some background about the building, it was originally built as Agriculture and Commerce Building in 1940. On the other side of this building, the National Museum of Anthropology is erected, where the history of the Philippines is preserved in a fashionable manner. This building formerly housed the Department of Finance. A few blocks from the National Museum of Anthropology where the National Museum of Fine Arts is located. The vital role of these museums in cultural growth was recognized as a contribution to the government’s desire for national development. In 1996, when President Ferdinand Marcos signed the Cultural Properties and Protection Act - which is also known as RA No. 4846 - it aim

    By Ronald Michael Quijano, LPT      Education - as defined in different well-known dictionaries - is a systematic way of instructing a particular subject or field in which they should integrate with other learning experiences to apply it in reality to make progress and contribution to society. The definition may differ to some aspect, but the essence of its meaning and application are under the same roof. Education is the action or process of teaching someone especially in a school, college, or university; it somehow refers to what we know as formal education but the very essence of its definition stays within the context of being academic. Education is teaching the knowledge, skill, and understanding that you get from attending school, college, or university; which pertains that a student should be taught that they have the right to decide what to think, how to think, and why should they think. Religious education tends to give them absolute understanding about the nature of th