Dear Computer Scientists,
I still remember those smiles. Yes, those innocent smiles...
When you looked into your friend's masterpiece, and those funny looks you have made, laughing and joking at those drawings, and you thought your drawing was already the worst...
When you saw that drawing of "teletubbies" and you thought that the retreat master's idea of passing around your masterpieces was a joke. "What kind of activity is this?" you asked yourself. When you saw that drawing of a working girl, with a laptop on her hand, and you exclaimed, "Kanino kaya ito?" Deep inside, you said, "Is this all what my classmate got? This is all his/her best? This is the best version of him/herself?"
When your drawing reached you finally, you looked intently into it and find yourself wondering, "Do they like my drawing? Or were they laughing at me?"
Then the lights turned off and you heard the prayer the retreat master was humming. Lead Me Lord, lead me all my life...
I still remember those tears. Yes, those sad tears...
When I crushed your masterpiece right infront of you. When I have torn those papers into pieces and was laughing infront of you and saying, "Ito lang kaya mo? Ang pangit oh?"
When you cried because you cannot do anything anymore, your drawing is just on a piece of crumpled paper. "Ate Heart, why?!?"
I still remember laughing inside, that devilish laugh I made because YOU THOUGHT YOUR DRAWING WAS THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF. Geez, I said. "Is that all you've got?"
And here is what I really wanted to say to all of you that night...
THAT IS NOT YET THE BEST VERSION OF YOURSELF.
The GOOD version of yourself is when you reach that stage tomorrow and get that diploma! And on that diploma is your name, and YOUR DEGREE already, not your course.
The BETTER version of yourself is when you hand over your resume to your future boss and when they say, "Welcome to my company." And on that resume, you will receive your paycheck, your benefits and your schedule.
The BEST version of yourself is when you achieved that DREAM of yours, whether to have a house and a car, to have a family or to travel the world. And include in it a mission. An inspiration. A vocation. A calling.
Guys and Gals, being a computer scientist is not just a course or a degree. Be the next Bill Gates or Steve Jobs! Be the next BEST version of whoever you are. DO NOT stay like that. DO NOT CRY of those torn masterpieces you have shown me. DO NOT STAY CRYING. Instead, tell me, "Ate Heart, I will draw a colorful best version of myself and when I see you, you will not crush it into pieces because it is so beautiful, you will frame it."
Tomorrow, you will commence to another world, to the world where you will prove yourself if you learned enough or not. And I want to see you year after year and show me what you've got. I do not want to see the ordinary. I want to see something... WONDERFUL.
Congratulations, my friends! See you in the corporate world!
romaincrisis
turnnoffyourmind
snowghoul
jacobvanloon
