Here I am again, watching so
much TV. As I was into National Geographic Channel, there was this Jose
Javier-Reyes ad on Live Curious. He posted the question, "What movie had
changed your life?". He said, his was the movie "Tinimbang Ka Ngunit Kulang" by Lino Brocka. I had a classmate in PI100 who said that the reason she was taking Film Arts was due to Nora Aunor's "Himala". I haven't watched those two movies and I wonder what's in those that made them decide to make films.
So, in response to Direk Reyes, the movies that inspired me are the Mona Lisa Smile, The Emperor's Club, and Good Will Hunting. I was inspired by the plot set on the academe. Thee films had given me the challenges I wanted in my life.
The
Good Will Hunting talks about Will, a 20-year-old guy with behavioral
problems but has a potential to be a great mathematician. During the
course of his therapy, Robin Williams asked him "What do you want to do?
What is it that you like with your life?". That same questions had also
struck me years ago. It had taken me a year to decide on what to do.
The films challenged me to take a big leap of change from the ordinary
person to being a professional educator. Like Will, I was a person who
only want to go on living despite the roughness of it, I enjoyed being a
student, the company of friends, I enjoyed life as it may come to me
every morning. But I had asked myself, when I am fifty, do I want to be
this same person?
Of course, that stage in my life said time's
up, your maximum residency has expired. I have to be in another track.
Everyone in my batch is chasing their dreams, living their goals while I
was stuck to the same kind of lifestyle. The person I was in college
had been the product of the pushing me to the edge and the learning I
had acquired through difficulties and achievements, but the person I had
become after college is way too different to that. I stayed so much in
my comfort zone after that. How eager I was to go back to those days
when my problems revolve around problem sets and machine problems, dorm
activities and how to be attentive during lectures and all those
sleepless nights before exams. I am missing the STRESS! (how sadistic)
Then,
The Emperor's Club had inspired me to become a teacher. To educate,
change the lives of many, be the guidance of young minds. A History
teacher can give a significant something to students, so how about a
Math teacher? How can Math teaching touches the life of others? I want
to see people grow, get directions in their lives through that little
something in me, and I want to be remembered as their teacher who taught
them how to do fractions and conversions.
The Mona Lisa Smile
had given me the insights on how to be a teacher. The ups, downs and
curvatures of teaching profession. The interactions with students and
the ways to win their trust in you.
I wouldn't say that who I am
now is the result of these movies but rather I can say that these
movies had shown me a greater path that I haven't known existed. These
movies had given me another train to take me to the next pit stop and
keep me chasing another dream.
Monday, December 27, 2010
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