It all began inside a four-corner room in which different faces, different personality, and different people dwell with the same goal; to learn lessons that would be their stepping stone in achieving their dreams. There come fifty students who shared laughs, smiles, frown and notable voyage together. There comes one person who, unconditionally, guided his students on their way to success.
There comes a subject which shed some exceptional lessons which will be treasured for fife.Let me start. One word, ten letters, known as, H-U-M-AN-I-T-I-E-S It is funny to think that I first thought of it as a subject that talks about how humans try to live; I even recognized it as the study of the human character. I thought, it talks about anything which deals with the word 'human' only. But, I got it all wrong. There is more to its name than what it really means.
Behind each letter is a symbol to discover. It is about the human culture. It is the word for art. It is the connotation of human emotions. What else does it have?What more can it offer? That, I do not know, until I began to encounter this subject matter.
I tried knowing it, appreciating it and loving it. And did you know what I found by doing so? It's for me to tell you. Let me reflect. Hiatus, a break or missing part. Our saga is a lifetime Journey, they say.
We are breathing, surviving, living 7 days a week, 12 months a year, and 365 days in total. Stress goes our way trying to win over us. For that reason, we often forwent to take a break over a long day, where in fact, it is never an expense to take a break.We can sites to music whenever we want to, write what we feel on a sheet of paper, draw what we imagine on a piece of cardboard, appreciate the things that are surrounding us, or simply close our eyes and feel life for a moment.
As a subject, I found humanities as a break to my tiring day. I am able to breathe some fresh air after those subjects that greatly stress me. Because of the activities that we've work through, it made me more positive to every little thing that surrounds me. I found Joy in every meeting that we have had. It is more than a subject.It is a missing part of e, because, I believe that it talks about life; a better life.
Now, I am convinced that our professor is right; because this subject is not a heavy one at all, hence, it brought us excitement we can ever have. Amazing eh? That's Humanities, my hiatus. Uniqueness was brought to life. Because of the projects that we had, the creativity I possessed had been awaken.
I will never forget the time when we painted our thoughts on a piece of cardboard; the time when we made a sculpture out of soap and also out of recycled papers. It helped me to unborn my hidden abilities in aging such priceless artworks.It was indeed a hard task, but, I am thankful that it led me to discover more about what I can do. That I am not only an ordinary student who has goal to finish her studies and find a good Job, but also a human who can be unique Just as she wanted herself to be. Those activities pushed me to my limits that I reach across my line and became better in perceiving things.
Though my works are not as beautiful as Leonardo Dad Vine's Mona Lisa nor as expensive as Van Sago's Starry Starry Night, I can still say that I am more than contented of what the outputs ere, because I made those with love.And I believe that nothing is lovelier than what was made with a heart. Managing the value of time. Though we have all the time in the world, it is a fact that once a single second is gone, we can never bring it back. Time is the most difficult thing to manage, they say.
But with the experience that I have with this subject, I am able to have a strong relationship with the its value. Not literally because of this subject, but because of a certain activity that we had in this subject. That is, the making of our MUSIC VIDEO. We chose the song Kananga byNoel Cabbaging to be our music, not because we believe that it will be the reason for us to have high grade, but because, we were fascinated with the meaning of it; which talks about time.
"Pan-phonon nag pagination, imbalance baa nag kapok? " it is a big no-no, indeed, we can never bring back time, but we can treasure every minute that is passing, because every moment is a history that we will try to look back as the calendar tore its part away. Art Appreciation. I am once an amateur artist who tried to thread the world of Arts.It seems that its scope is too big and that my abilities are o small.
But then, I learned that I cannot befit what I want to be, if I am not giving some passion over it. With the help of this subject, I became more appreciative when it comes to arts. My understanding regarding the principle of ARTS became wider. Through some of the reporting of my dear block mates, it deepened my knowledge on how arts bring impact to our society and our lives. And because of that, I learned to embrace every piece of art and be able to bring up the artist I became.
Never treat a bad thing as bad.There is this policy in this subject that whenever you are late which is, when you arrived at 1 5), you should and must deliver an intermission number for you not to be marked as absent. I am inglorious to admit that Vive performed three times (not consecutively) as consequence of me, being late. I always thought that my tardiness is a malady (well, maybe yes) and I never imagined that this bad thing will bring more confidence in me. What an irony.
But believe it or not, it did. Because of performing, specifically, singing, in front of my block mates and our professor, I found spirit within my said talent'.It had been a great honor hearing hem throw some warm round of applause whenever I will finish my performance. There's a positive side of everything, after all. I am not aware about what the true meaning of literature, art, music, and film in their historical contexts is, until I found out what Humanities is: it is such an embarrassment to admit, but yes. Bygone, I thought art is art, literature is literature, music is music and a film is a film; simply the representations of ideas and emotions of a person, a creation of humans wild imagination and so on.
But then, I made a mistake.Now I know that those are 'life' in broader sense. They may signify how we live; we feel; and even the smallest part of our being. With Humanities, my awareness about these genres had been broadened. Among these, music is what I adore the most, simply because, this is where I found myself, making music.
Talk about the things I don't know. My philosophical being had been enhanced through studying this subject. I started to become curious about the things that talk about human culture; which is the main concept of humanities. As a mortal who lives in earth, I begun wondering about how our need was being fulfilled
