a lot of things i realized tonight

it's not just the mere discussion and appreciation of the literary pieces but how it transcend and reflect on different cultures, philosophies, and forms and systems of human life. primarily, it is where literature springs itself. literature is the manifestation of an answer, of a daily philosophy that is hidden within intricately and scrupulously woven words. and in deciphering  its beautiful riddles and conundrums that we disclose the meaning of the literary piece and of life itself. it is by digging deep the depth of its semiotics that we realize the shallowness and profoundness of life and the system we are living.

tonight i enjoyed and indulged myself to another literary piece and that was of Gibran's The prophet. i knew from the begging that my report wouldn't just be a sole reporting and dishing out of facts and meanings of the poem. nevertheless, it would be a discussion or a conversation and a debate of different perspectives and opinions from people in various walks of life. it would be an exchange of rebuttals and propositions within the group. verily, i was delighted and even excited with the thought that i would be listening and conversing with people who really makes sense, who can really defend their stands. it would be an attempt to intertwine the bizarre and the absurd, the fiction and the fact. it would be a transcendence of different knowledge and experiences in which our philosophies and idealism sprung. 

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a classmate spoke to me earlier this evening that my classmates in a certain subject is making fun of the way i speak, i don't know if it's my accent or my grammar though i know it's correct, or is it my diction. nevertheless, this classmate of mine said that my classmates are secretly chuckling every time i speak up or discuss things in front. she said that she's deeply concerned with me and that's why she took the initiatives to inform of my current status in class. i don't know if she's profound of the word "concern" cause visibly it didn't even show a hint. but what my concern is not my stratum in class but the shallowness and stupidity of my classmates thoughts including that of the "concerned" classmate. 

first, i would like to say that i can speak in different accents. i have a smooth grammar and i trust my diction. i even try to appropriate my terms into the level of there understanding. i even spend most of my saliva in interpreting the point in the simplest way i can, in the simplest way their brain can comprehend.

second, it's not my problem anymore if you guys are too dumb or too influenced with your notions that you're dumb. believe me when i say that there are no such people as stupid or dumb when they are willing to learn. i can say that a person is a fool if he says no to knowledge and fears new learning. 

there is this one instance when this "concern" classmate reprimanded me for speaking in English because her opinion was that why would i use the language if most of my classmates can't understand it. i was seriously taken aback with what she said. i mean, isn't it alarming?? these are graduating students yet they don't know basic english! how did they survived college and all of their other English medium classes if they are having hard time comprehending the book... which are mostly written in  English! 

so i made a side comment about it and said: "guys, did you heard what she just said? well, she thinks you're dumb because you can't understand my simple English. how pathetic."  

oh please, prove her wrong! because i don't think you are.

third, i believe that i don't have to conform myself with the system our class is in. i don't even have to attach myself to you though friendly acquaintances will be entertained. but to subside myself in such a level will do me no good and to you as well.  how will you learn if you will confine yourself on the little learning  you attain now. how will you know wisdom and knowledge if you'll keep on mocking others and not see yourself as someone who could be greater and better as a person. this could only be achieve through profound willingness to learn. 

please don't stop with the current notion and grow and prune to be someone greater. please don't be stocked in the mediocrity of life...to laugh at others because you don't know what she's talking about.