As we all know Rizal is our national hero. Rizal lives' once, he offer his life to create many things that people able to wake from the reality of this world. The slavery and many abuses that the intruder done to our country. Rizal dedicate himself through writing the Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo until his last novel Me Ultimo A Dios just to create a bridge that people able to walk to the other side and that other side is the real situations of our country.
As I journey in this world with only one life, there are things that similar to Rizal experience that I also experience as human.
And this are some of our similarities :
Rizal as leader, as youth we are called all to be a leader. Like rizal create a portal that bring people to the reality as to I am, as a leader I have the responsibilty to open their mind that the world is full of undesirable things, but not like rizal did that he woke people minds through his writings, but my way is through prankly speaking to them just to open their mind in reality. As Rizal quoted "Ang Kabataan ang Pag-asa ng Bayan".
Rizal as a lover of his own country. As a citizen of this country their are simple things to show love for the country like showing respect to the country, cleaning the environments and etc. Those simple things can create a big impact to the Society to show love and respect to the country.
Rizal as student. As a student like Rizal that bring total hardwork to his study despite of all criticism that he experience he did not stop educate himself nor he make those criticism his motivation to pursue more in his study. As a student I also experience criticism on my course, and doubt of other people that I cannot finish my study, but like Rizal I make them all as a challenge and create a bridge of criticism which I can walk in order to be strong and be a strong student.
Rizal as healer, as Rizal healed his mother, not only his mother but also people who need to be healed. Rizal did not hesitate to help. As a human we can also heal, in our own way. Rizal healed them through medicine. There are two things that need healing physical and emotional. Rizal healed physical but as a human I can heal their emotional illness by simply listening to their problem and giving advices to them.
The experience that Rizal and I can be judge because I know that it is not the same. Yes! It is not the same because we lived in a different time and in different situation. The only similar things is the values and morals that Rizal experience during his stay in this world is similar on the experience that I encounter nowadays.
You only lives once, live according to your purpose. Live a meaningful life. As what other people said "Live for nothing or die for something".
Very interesting article