DESIDERATA

Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender,
be on good terms with all persons.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly;
and listen to others,
even to the dull and the ignorant;
they too have their story.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons;
they are vexatious to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others,
you may become vain or bitter,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs,
for the world is full of trickery.
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals,
and everywhere life is full of heroism.
Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love,
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment,
it is as perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with dark imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline,
be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God,
whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations,
in the noisy confusion of life,
keep peace in your soul.

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,
it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.

Desiderata comes from the Latin word for “desired things”, plural of desideratum is a prose poem by Max Ehrmann about attaining happiness in life.

Desiderata pertains to some things that we should desire and not the negative illustrations you conceive in our mind. It states that it is very important to do good and trust in what God have planned for us. There’s no room for surrender all of us have to do is explore it takes a lot of courage to do this, but it’s not impossible,As we said we must be optimistic in our challenges problems and others, and make ourselves always be happy . The time will come, our Challenges has a good effect of us.

in the line: Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.

The meaning of this line is there are all kinds of things competing for your attention and claim to be important and make a lot of noise and people that want a piece of you. The poem is encouraging you to ignore the unimportant, loud, noisy commercialism and emotionalism, and find a place of peace within yourself where you can make important decisions out of reach of all of the foolish distractions.

The tagalog translation in this poem
DESIDERATA (TAGALOG VERSION)

Humayo kang mapayapa sa gitna ng ingay at pagmamadali, at alalahanin mo kung anong kapayapaan mayroon sa katahimikan. Hangga’t maaari, ng walang pagsuko, maging mabuti ang pakikitungo mo sa lahat ng tao. Ipahayag mo ang iyong katotohanan ng tahimik at buong linaw; at makinig ka sa iba, maging sa mga kabagot-bagot at mangmang; sila man ay mayroon ding sariling salaysay.

Iwasan mo ang maiingay at mapupusok na tao; sila ay mga pang-inis sa isip. Kung ihahambing mo ang
iyong sarili sa iba, maaari kang maging palalo o may sama ng loob, sapagka’t lagi na’y mayroong mas nakahihigit at mas nakabababang mga tao kaysa sa iyo.

Masiyahan ka sa iyong mga nakamtan gayundin sa iyong mga balakin. Manatili kang interesado sa iyong sariling hanapbuhay, gaano man kababa; Ito’y isang tunay na pag-aari sa pabago-bagong kapalaran ng panahon.

Gawin mo nag pag-iingat sa iyong mga gawaing pangkalakal, sapagka’t ang daigdig ay tigib ng panlilinlang. Subali’t huwag mo itong bayaang bumulag sa iyo sa kung anong kabutihan ang mayroon dito; maraming tao ang nagpupunyagi tungo sa matataas na hangarin, at kahit saan ang buhay ay puno ng kabayanihan.

Ikaw ay maging ikaw. Lalo’t higit ay huwag mong dayain ang pagmamahal. O ‘di kaya’y maging mapag-alinlangan ka tungkol sa pag-ibig; sapagka’t sa harap ng lahat ng kahugkagan at pagkasuklam, ito’y kasing-tatag ng mga damo.

Tanggapin mo ng may kagandahang loob ang payo ng mga taon, buong kagitingang isinusuko ang mga bagay ng kabataan. Alagaan mo ang lakas ng pag-iisip upang ipananggalang laban sa madidilim na kaisipan. Marami sa mga pangamba ay hatid ng pagod at kalungkutan. Sa kabila ng isang mabuting disiplina, maging mahinahon ka.

Ikaw ay anak ng sanlibutan, hindi hamak kaysa mga puno at mga bituin; may karapatan kang maparito. At maging ito man ay malinaw o hindi sa iyo, walang alinlangan na ang sanlibutan ay umiinog gaya ng nararapat nitong gawin. Kung gayon, maging mapayapa ka sa piling ng Diyos, anuman ang iyong pananaw tungkol sa Kanya. At anuman ang iyong mga pagpapagal at mithiin, sa maingay na
kalituhan ng buhay, pamalagiin mo ang kapayapaan sa iyong kaluluwa.

Sa kabila ng kanyang mga pagkukunwari, pagkaalipin at gumuhong mga pangarap, ito’y isa pa ring magandang daigdig. Maging maingat ka. Pagsumikapan mong maging maligay

O well, I need to memorise this poem because this is our project for speech, arrrrh. I still cannot memorise the whole poem, but i will do my best to memorise for the sake of my project,next monday will be our speech,so i must be ready,although I am in trouble of memorising, i really love this poem very much :D

Past maybe our Present and future or Past will be completely dissolve, ALWAYS BE READY!

The School year is about to end. Haayz time goes so fast, but we need to encounter our future whether we like it or not, we can’t back our past, but the past repeat itself,but not at all will be repeat again, coz we do not know what will be our future.

This School year marks the most complicated school life in my history in terms of my academic, relationship about my friendship and pleasantry to others , yes!, thus, it made something positive and negative for me to change myself from my past and to get ready in the future challenges ,so, i think at the end, the conclusion will be completely desirable. Before the school year started, I was so excited to go to school again , and to meet some new people but good and understandable and to meet my friend and classmate again, i was hoping before that my classmates last school year (sy:2008-2009) will be my classmates to, in the third year level of High School, because, I really like my section before, they said that our section was one of the kindest section in our campus. And we like our adviser, although she is very strict to us, but in the time of her teaching was so excellent, all of us will participate from her class, she is a discplinarian teacher , a good and kind teacher to. I am one of the annual honors of our section before ( i got 3 grading periods , 3rd honorable grades, and 1 grading period, 2nd honorable grades), I was hoping that to, that i will be an annual honor student again in this school year (2009-2010), and my future adviser will be like my preceeded adviser when i was in 2nd year. However, All of my thoughts and hope , was failed! coz, at the First day of our class i met some of my hatred and annoying schoolmate before, i knew that before, there would be worst to happen in our section in the future days, so, i got so bad in the coming days, i felt so bored to go in our school, our class was very very vociferous, so i cannot concentrate to the discussions of our teachers verywell and with my studies. Before, i don’t have a tardiness and only received 5 absences last year, but now, i received many absences and tardiness, i’m making some reasons to my family,teacher to absent, and attend the class to the other day, on the 3rd week of the school year, was the recognition of the undergraduate student, i have no siblings, parents or guardians to attend the recognition of our school because that, time my siblings and my mother is in Manila and my father was so busy and there will be no availabe guardians to attend the recognition of our school. So, my teacher was assisted me, after the recognition. I’m going back to our classroom, when i was walking, someone of my classmate was holding me in my back, I felt ashamed of him because i don’t know any about him. On the second day, at recess time, he is closing to me, he told pwede mo ba akong turuan sa English? (Can you teach me in English?) , but i refused to help him , coz i really felt ashamed and quite irritable, but he really wants to caught my attention unto him, until before the 1st grading examination, my mood is now very confident to know him more, at the end of the last day of our examination, he invites me to itinerate to the mall, at first i’m quite not in mood, but at the end, i accepted it, it was the first day of my life to ramble with my classmate. Until i met some new friends, to feels closes conversation to others, and very confident to others, that was because of him, and now we are a bestfriend, and we had a formation of barkada , however , my grade was so badly gone down, my adviser was told me that i will be no longer an honor student anymore, so i quite disappointed and guilty about my grades, but she said to me , to exert more effort and try to study hard and also of my friend’s support . They are my inspiration to reach again and re-claim my honor status of our school, and because of my God’s faith and his presence, and of course my family to, my inspiration to have a good grade was back again, so, I again was qualify to the honor’s and until now, i still belong to the honor’s list in our campus, i’m quite happy with myself, even i belong to the honor’s list, there will be no chance to qualify to the annual honor’s list, however , I believed to myself there will be a better days to come.

In the remaining month , i’m excited to go to the 4th year High School because it is our last year before our High School lifes end, and a new more Challenge we need to overcome. even i’m exicted, i’m quite sad because i think, my good and close classmate will be no longer my classmate anymore in the 4th year, but still, i hoping it will be sucessful! to us. I’m relflecting to my ownself past will be back but in a new way, it has been new coz everytime has a quite changes to our challenge so that we can encounter and get ready from the future,i don’t care if the past will be repeat or past will be completely dissolve and form a new one, but the important is to be always ready, if we already prepared ourselves, there will be an interpretation that we are OUTSTANDING and USEFUL HUMAN WHO LIVE IN THE GOD’S CREATURE and the God’s given to us challenge will be not useless although we can solve our problems,let us be optimistic in our lives. ALWAYS BE READY. =)