Footnote to Youth
In this story, the life of Dodong's father is passing through generation to generation. They married at an early age. Nowadays, some teenagers that got pregnant think that marriage is the solution. Marriage is not a game. It must be taken seriously. We should not rush ourselves into such thing. We have a lot of time to pursue our dreams. Marriage is a thing that has full of responsibilities and you must be mature enough. There are lot of circumstances that must be considered before marrying. Let's know first the consequences in the decision we make.
My Father Goes to Court
It doesn't matter how much wealth we have or how much the family can provide. What matters is how happy we are together, how full life can be with just each other. The rich man's family may have the good food, but do they enjoy it as much as the family who is happy by just the aroma of food? Also, Acusing others for our misfortune or misery, does not mean that they are responsible for it. You can blame others but really the fault is on your hands. The rich man blames that the neighbors stole the spirt of the food that nourished them instead of nourishing the rich man's family, but really, the neighbors stole nothing. The neighbors were merely glad to smell the food and enjoyed playing outside and bonding together. While the rich family stayed inside to watch them enjoy and grow healthier, they themselves grew to envy the neighbors happiness.
How My Brother Leon Brought Home A Wife
We should respect and give a chance to get to know people before we assume anything about them. There will always be different kinds of people and instead of looking at the differences we should change our views of certain things and see what can surprise us when we accept those differences. Also, social status is not a hindrance in love. A humble farm man can always love a city girl. And also, to keep a relationship working, sacrifices and comprising can help keep their lives happier together.
Magnificence
It is a story were a couple hired a stranger to be a tutor to their children. Vicente or the stranger is taking advantage to the innocent girl. Good thing the mother arrived and saw what happened. Then, slapped the man repeatedly. He told the girl to take a bath and throw the pencil to clean or purify again the little girl. This story tells us that we can never really trust some people nowadays for they might use it for bad intentions. Don’t trust people until without really knowing them. It also seen the love of the mother because she protected her little girl.
Geyluv
People usually don't act on what they truly feel because they fear of what other people will think and say of them. Our actions are usually based on what the society will accept and not on what makes us happy. Being in a same sex relationship does not make anyone of those individuals a bad person or a person who is to be frowned upon. There are only two kinds of people, those who do good and those who do bad. Loving a person who is the same as your gender, how is that doing bad?
Song of the Tear-gassed Man
The song of the tear gassed man is a plead of the people who are not in favor of the government or those who want to fight for freedom and rights as citizens or students or just as men who deserve justice. This cries out what these people want to express and what they want to be heard for. This was written during the martial law in which whenever there are rallies or mobs, police tear gas these men to temporarily blind and irritate their eyes. The writer had a different way of being heard and it was through this composition that is now still being carried out through time, teaching us what they were going through then.
May Day Eve
Marriage should not be based on raging passion. For passion is not enough to keep two people intact together. We must not make decisions based on emotions felt in the moment because it may not last. Also leaping into serious commitments without proper dissecting of the situation can lead to disillusionment which causes to see something we once thought of to be so great into something we've grown to recent.
Soledad
Soledad is a story of a woman who loved too well but was condemned for that doing. Soledad was a woman who was carved from pride, a woman who people are proud of and is looked up to. But she disregarded all that for just a moment with her love or the so called "firebrand". And this lead to the people's thinking that "her soul's cathedral was burned by his desires" maybe this was because Soledad has not yet gotten into marriage that is why she was condemned for loving too much.
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