Khaleej Times Clip

“Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it”. – Proverbs 22:6
When I was a child, I always read this verse on the walls of our classroom, on our textbooks and even our teacher would always remind us on living by the moral of this verse. When I was young, I never understood it even if I’m familiar with it because for me it was just a mere bible verse that our teacher would want us to memorize and read on our classroom’s walls. I never appreciated this verse back then.
As I grew up and currently in college, it is when I finally get to understand the essence of this bible verse. I came to realize that when we became a parent someday, this would be their legacy to us. Their legacy in which they taught us the right things to do and let us discover our mistakes for us to learn from it.  They wanted to leave a legacy to us that even though they will be gone and we would have our own lives, we can never go wrong and they would be at peace. Our parents would only want what’s best for us. They will let us discover things on our own but with their guidance so that we will be on the right path at some point. They will never do anything that would bring harm to us. There would be instances that we become stubborn, disobey them and make our own decisions but still they will always be there to catch us when we fall.
As I’ve watched the video clip, I was moved it’s because I can see that the mother is really having a hard time in teaching her daughter since she did not finished any degree or has proper education. But as shown on the video, she is determined to teach her daughter in her own way instead. She let her daughter do things her own just by showing her what to do so that her daughter will learn from it. She can’t teach her verbally so it’s better demonstrate it instead. I can also see that the daughter is also determined to learn from her mother the proper way on peeling the pineapple. In that simple scenario, I can say that lack of education is not a hindrance on teaching our children the right things to do. Lack of education is not a reason for parents on being able to teach their children good values that they will ponder upon so that when they grew up, that values will instill in their minds and they will live with it. On the next scene, when the daughter had an idea on selling the frozen pineapple, her mother let her discover on how people sell in the market so that the girl would have an idea. The girl went to the market to observe how things are done there for her to gain idea on how to sell her frozen pineapple the proper way. After observing the people in the market, the girl immediately applied what she saw there and to her surprise, customers are already buying her product and it made both the girl and her mother very happy. Without even knowing, the girl’s mother is watching her and she is proud to say that her daughter had learned from life’s lessons and even if she will be gone, she is confident that her daughter can make it through because of her learning’s. Since they are selling pineapples for sustaining their living expenses, why not use it and make a Popsicle for my daughter? She then sliced a piece of pineapple and sticks it on Popsicle stick and dipped it on a cooler full of ice. Later that morning, she gave it to her daughter and fortunately, that alternative Popsicle turned out to taste great. I even imagined the reaction of the kid was totally amazed and she liked it. Just like any of us, there are times that when we taste a very delicious food there is a sudden happy feeling that makes us high and makes us the feeling that we want to eat it again and again, the fact that the pineapple were stored on a cooler full of ice, it could really give a different vibe and different sensation. Maybe that was the reason why the daughter thought of selling it to others. The effort of her mother wanting to provide for her daughter’s wants turned out to be a very brilliant idea that they could use to provide another extra income for them. You could really tell by the looks of it that the mother was shocked and surprised by the very brilliant suggestion of her daughter. The thought of having another extra means of incurring an additional income to support their living expenses must have thrilled her mother. And so, because a very brilliant idea was made, they made it happen. They immediately made a pineapple Popsicle and put it in a cooler full of ice and sell it on the streets. But their venture for pineapple Popsicle was not that very well accepted by the public in their first launching. Her daughter was not able to sell even one piece of pineapple Popsicle. If her daughter were like any other ordinary kids, she may have cried for not being able to sell even one piece. But her daughter is very different, instead of crying for the loss, or for not being able to sell even one piece, she instead wondered and questioned herself and her mother as to why the other people are not buying her pineapple popsicle? What is wrong with their pineapple Popsicle? Is it not delicious as what she had tasted it? Are all the people in their neighborhood does not have a sense of taste? Why are they not buying? What is wrong? Is it not enough? Are the efforts of her mother and hers not enough? What more can they give? What more can they offer? And so, her mother taught her that life is like that, you cannot please everyone, our efforts or your efforts might not be really enough. You might not have caught your customer’s attention, Your product may not have caught what the buyers want. Maybe just maybe you still lack the capacity to sell these pineapple popsicles. Why won’t you try observing the people in the market? Maybe you can learn from them. Observe how they make deals. Observe how they sell their goods. Observe how they caught the attentions of the buyers and sell their products. Observe the flow, the process of business with your own eyes and compare it to the way you handled your previous selling. Reflect as to how these people make a living so that you will know how to cope up with this big world and be able to stand up on your own and be able to achieve what we had longed for. To see the reality of the world that if you are weak and incompetent, you will really fall behind with the fast pacing rotation of this world.  And so, her daughter went to the market. And there, she witnessed the truth of what her mother wants her to see. The real world where people and happenings are so fast that if you are slow and weak, you will really fall behind and bleed and might die because of nothingness. She saw how the vendors sold their goods. She saw different types of vendors and a different type of goods. She also saw how to make deals with customers and how make proper transactions with them. She also learned how vendors caught the attention of their buyers that lead the buyers to buy their goods that would really help her in her selling of her pineapple popsicle. She also learned that to be able to achieve her and her mothers’ goal, she must not be weak and wavering. She must be strong and standing still to be able to compete and cope up with the kind of world they have. Since they were not able to go to school plus they do not have the capacity to send her to school and her was not able to attend to school too, and so, they must strive harder to get what they want. She saw in the market the truth of competency the world offers. That for them to be able to survive in this current world, they must compete with the rest of the vendors selling in the market. She learned that they must change her ways of selling her products. She realized that she should be like the vendors in the market. Shyness is never a word to occur and she must never feel shy or anything while selling her goods. If she needs to shout to call for customers, she must never be shy in doing it. she must have the thick face in facing the customers, even in calling them and convincing them to buy for her goods. She must sell her goods with the price that is reasonable for the customers to have an urge to buy her goods since the price is reasonable plus the fact that there is like the idea of discount. The discount thing is the one thing that she learned from that somehow big lady-vendor, she learned from her just by watching her sell that for her to able to sell and have a better profit because of many sales, she must give the consumers an option. There she learned the idea of a single priced good and buying a two pieces of pineapple Popsicle with the lesser price than with actually buying two pieces separately. Through observing that somehow the lady vendor, she learned that that strategy was very effective and efficient with the consumers and at the same time with the vendor. Because of the discounted price, the customers feel very happy like they had discounted a bunch and a penny was saved. While on the vendor’s side of story, they get this feeling of being accomplished because of being able to sell all of their goods and with nothing left on their basket, so they get to feel relieved because all of their products were sold out. Because of sending her daughter to the market to observe the people and the vendors, her daughter was able to gain some knowledge and strategies as to how and what to do to the next time she is going to sell her pineapple popsicle. Every one of us really wanted to be happy and have a successful life, and this is also a sign that we are really enjoying life. The little girl really enjoys her life with just these small productive things like their product, the frozen pineapple on stick. This things does not only makes her earn money and a great help to her mother but also gives her inspirations and joy in her heart. Even if she was still in a very young age, she was already helping her mother earning money while enjoying her business at the same time. And thus I conclude that having an open mind leads to an innovative mind. Having an open mind is very important, accepting new ideas, whether it may be negative or positive, you should be able to accept it. Having an open mind is a way of improving one’s self and with this you can learn more and improve your knowledge and wisdom. I am amazed with the child in the story, as for at a very young age, she has very good character traits. At a very young age, the child was able to learn the things her mother was doing and more importantly, the child has the traits, attitude and entrepreneur should have. And by learning through her observations, she had improved a lot. Learning and understanding from your own mistake will make you see things differently because you already know how to get pass through it if you ever face the same problems. But always remember that it’s not bad to make mistakes, the bad things is not learning from your previous mistakes.

I can still remember when I was young, my father is not always at home because he is working for us at day and at night he had a sideline as a musician in order to provide enough money for us to survive and it leaves under our mother’s care. She is the one left at home so she is the one who is always with us when we prepare for school, went home after school, at dinner time and before we close our eyes as we go to bed. We do understand our father since he is doing it for the family. There also came a time when both of them had to work for money is really a problem for us and we could only see and be with them at morning for my mother had a graveyard shift. It was very hard for us, me and my two older sisters because we need to stand on our own since our parents are working for us. In this kind of experience, I came to realize that when you became a parent, you will do anything for the family especially to your children to give them a better future ahead. Sometimes, our parents will not be there physically but the lessons they imparted to us will help us make it through. We grew up in a simple family, our parents taught us to be contented on what we have, we should not look for something we don’t have but rather aim to fulfill our dreams that someday all the things we wanted while we were young would not be impossible for us to provide it to ourselves. For them to be also be at peace that we would surely make it through life’s challenges even though they are not around to guide us out of the things we had experienced in life.
This video does not only apply on our relationship with our parents but also to our second parents which are our teachers a school. They were the ones who are responsible for us when we are away from home and for the time being that we are at school to learn things. It is not very easy to be a teacher of a many number of students but because of their love for us they are doing the best they could just to inculcate to us good values and also made us understand our lessons. On my experience, I am not a bookish person; I cannot understand my lessons even though it is properly explained to us by our teacher because I prefer to let myself understand by applying what our teacher had taught us. In this case, I am able to understand it more because for me it is better to try and apply it myself all the teachings rather than just merely listening and let it pass through my other ear.
I would also want to share my experience of having a teacher in which we consider as our father of all fathers in our college. He may be strict but I know that he is just a disciplinarian. He just wants to mold the best version of ourselves when we go out to the real world when we step out of college. He would always tell us that the skills we have like programming, solving problems, web designing, graphic designing and etc. would be all useless when we are in the real world if we don’t have the right attitude because skills can be learned through time and effort in studying but right attitude is not for it is practiced and applied in ourselves every day. A company would not hire an employee if he is not disciplined especially with regards with the time. That’s why he would always want us to come early in class as practice that we should always apply for being early in class is a sign of respect to the ones higher than us and also to our colleagues. A father would not tolerate his children for their wrong doings, and as our father in our class, he would also impose sanctions to those who would come late in class for them to be disciplined and not to do it again. Some may misunderstood him but I know that his only doing this as a preparation for us when we step out of college that we would be the best version of ourselves. I know that one day, I would be very thankful to him because it is an honor that for once in my life, I came across to know him and learned good values and life’s lessons from him that would really make a big impact in my life. For I know that if we will just apply all his lessons in ourselves we can never go wrong but rest assured it would help us our life’s journey and growth as a person. I am not only thankful to him but also to all my teachers who exerted effort to impart us everything they know and learned through their experiences also.
I salute every parent who would their best just to impart good values to their children because if we would all know what is right, we can never go wrong. I admit that we are not perfect and often times we commit mistakes but what matters most is on how to stood up and continue fighting. Our downfall should not be our weakness but rather make it our strength to continue our journey in life. The mistakes we’ve done in our lives should be our guide and would be our life’s lessons for us to commit or repeat the same mistakes again. Our parents did everything just to be with us, guide us and walk with us in every road that we wanted to take even though sometimes we tend to leave them but when we come running back to them, they will be always extending their open arms to welcome us again. Our lives is a hell of a roller coaster ride, we just have to endure every possible feeling or experience we might feel all throughout the ride for us to survive and hit the end of its finish line. We must always instill in our minds that lessons and values that our parents had imparted us all throughout their lives because it for our own good and our weapon in every battle we may encounter someday. Our parents are also not perfect, they may commit mistakes and sometimes would not understand us but that what family is all about, we need to help each other for us to meet at the middle and understand each other’s sentiments. Often times we might understood them and we chose to disobey them but mind us that even though we disobeyed them, their eyes are still with us to guide us, protect us and catch us when we fall. Our parents are our first heroes for they are the ones who are ready to fight for us without asking anything in return.
I salute every teacher who teaches students with all their heart and soul and consider them as if their own. For showing every student their love and concern as a foundation towards their healthy relationship as family at school. Some lessons are not taught at home and we could learn it at school. I am very thankful for them.
This video about a mother, daughter and a pineapple taught me and made me realize how lucky I am to have my parents. For they taught me many good things in life that I will surely apply and also teach my children when I become a parent. Because of their examples, I am very sure that someday I will be a good father to my children and whatever lessons my parents imparted me, I will definitely let my children learn from it. Education starts at home. We are cultivated carefully by our parents so that someday that seed will blossom into a flower that would beauty to the surroundings, be appreciated by everybody and would bring happiness to everyone who sees it. We are all like that seed, someday we could bring joy to everyone just by setting a good example to the people around us. Made stronger by our experiences either our ups and downs with the guidance of our parents, our first heroes. This video also made me realize that the essence of learning at your own and not by the thought of others is a best thing, it’s a way of being independent if needed so that if our parents will pass away they will not be worried about us just like the last part of the video clip when the mother told to herself that even if she's gone someday she don’t have to worry about her daughter cause she thought her the things that her daughter needs to know and her daughter is on a good shape because her daughter already know what will she do if there is a kind of problem that she will face thru her life. So I realize that we can’t turn back the times that we didn’t do anything to our lives to learn more things on our own and just wait for the time to come that you will say to yourself that “hey, come on you need to learn something this day” learning is not a boring thing to do you need to learn some new things every day cause our parents, teachers and other guardians is not always there to guide us on our decisions that we make on our lives. This short video clip really taught me how great life is even thou we didn’t given a chance to choose a family if it’s a rich family or a poor family the day we we’re born. It’s better to give credits to the ones that brought us in this earth and the ones who give life to us. We must be very thankful that even though we were not given a family that could fulfill all our wants but at least we have a family that loves us so much, whose cares are very like to an ocean. Specially our mother, she is a woman of courage and bravery who was able to support and give life to another life; almost nine months of taking good care of a child inside her womb. Now that we are grown up, it is very easy for us to disobey them and made them feel unimportant due to our insensitive behavior and our irresponsibility toward our assigned household chores. Upon seeing the video clip, my heart melts at the act of the mother and somehow I was able to reflect on my previous actions as a son to my parents. I realized that it has never been easy to earn for living so our parents could have something to provide to our family. We must strive hard for our study by doing so we could somehow show our parents that their hard ships will never be in vain. This simple act from us their beloved child will also inspire them to continue to persevere in their work that even though it seems so hard for them to bear, but the thought that their child needs the financial support, it will be his inspiration to never give up even to the point that their body is saying the opposite thing. The selfish acts from our parents must be valued and cherish, because even if we get a decent job and a higher salary than our parents, we are still nothing compared to them, because we didn’t have to undergo heavy and physical labor, we don’t have to suffer from the heat of the sun because we have been given the chance to have a better course that could give us the good salary and enjoy comfort of an air-conditioned rooms. It was all because of their sacrifices for us and we must be very thankful about it because God let us to have them. And we need to do are hard works on our studies and the only thing that we can pay them for their hard work and for their struggles just to let us finish our studies is to graduate in college and let them climb again on stage for the one last time it’s the most important thing that we can gave to them as we will surely depart to them and find our own way to live for this I have learn my lesson that we can’t just ignore the feelings of our parents because it is more than important for me what our parents feel, they don’t show it unto us but deep inside maybe they are feeling bad if we disobey them, have failing grades when we undergo on our studies and specially when we talk back when they are scolding us. That’s the most or maybe the painful scenario of their parenting, they don’t have any bad intentions to hurt us when they scold us they are just trying to correct the wrong things that we have done and they are trying to bring us to the right path. The process of being a good parent is not that simple that anyone thinks it will occur the time, the way the parent thinks, and the way how they will discipline there kids. This is the main reason why we don’t need to make our parents cry or even hurt them, because without them we are just a useless kind of a living thing they are always there to guide us and to protect us and for now maybe we can’t understand how it feels about parenting because we don’t have any children’s yet, maybe someday somehow we can understand the full essence of being a parent and the struggles that they have been thru maybe we can also encounter that struggles when the time comes that we already have are children’s. I realize that this short video clip is a very good example of good parenting even though they are not wealthy as anybody out there and I wonder when I watched this short video clip what is going on the mind of the director to produce a video like this and how did the director manage not to include a father mother daughter relationship on this video, where is the father of the child? That’s the question that going on my mind when I’m watching this video over and over again. I can’t find the point that she don’t need a father, as I notice fathers will be the one who will work for his family and find money to support the needs of his wife and children’s, but the answer I find is NO as I reflect this video to my entire life that my mother also need to work like a said earlier this method of living is just an example on how they want to give their children’s a good life and will not experience a what they called “ isang kahig isang tuka “ parents don’t want that. So going back to the video clip I find out what is the real purpose of the director for not having a father role for this video clip, its maybe because the director want’s the viewers to cherish more their mothers and maybe this video clip is showing that even you have broken family that you and your mother only lives together it’s not a hindrance what can you achieve for your lives. And this is the thing that made my tear start falling out into my eyes. I just felt the message of the video clip even thou it’s just short and the video clip’s length is just three minutes the heart melting message of the video clip is just like watching an one hour or more heart breaking videos on a cinema. As I go through this heart breaking video clip I remembered and ask myself “what kind of life that my parents have when they are just starting to build a family?” then I remembered when I was just a little boy my mother told me about their lives when they are just starting to build a family and the struggles they’ve been thru with my father, and of course I’m just a little boy that time so I don’t clearly understand the words the she told me. By this time and by this age of mine I finally understand all the words she told me and the lecture that she wants to deliver to me so that I can understand, the effect of this to me is that I’m fully motivated to finish my study and return all the favors that my mother together with my father given to me. The most important thing they taught me is to treasure all things that God has given unto you and gather all the experience you need to build a strong hold foundation of your well-being and stay strong no matter what struggle or any difficulties that comes on to your way we need to accept all the things that is coming unto us even it is a bad thing or a good thing we need to cherish life because it is the only life that God given unto us we need to be aware of our body and the need of our body we can’t just waste the one life that God given unto us.
“I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me “– Philippians 4:13