Bau, Franz Harold C.

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Reflection of Experiences during the exposure (Individual)

I am really blessed to experience this immersion. The experience was very

and heart-warming an unforgettable one. I have seen how blessed I am in many
ways but so are they! We just have different expressions of the blessings. They
want what we have, and we want what they have. I guess the only solution is to be
satisfied and change for the better considering the other class of people in the
society. I realized that I am far too lucky to have a family like mine and to have the
things I need and I want. I realized that I should be thankful of what I have instead
of being fretful and discontented. I was lucky that I could go to the best school and
develop my skills up to the best of my abilities because there are teenagers like
who wanted to do so but they are hindered by their situation. I must really be
thankful of every little thing I have. I also realized that these chances that I have
should not be taken for granted, I should strive and work so that the efforts of my
parents would not be wasted at all.

Most of all, I realized that happiness does not count on material things alone,
it is the time you spent and share with the one you love and with God. Because of
this experience, I have learned to consider others, to look beyond the world now. I
have confined my perspective in the world I know and grew up in. I thought the
types of people I see every day are the only types of people in the world. But I was
really wrong. I took my blessing and resources for granted. I was so inconsiderate
of other people who wish they have my blessings. I was carefree. But because I
was shown kindness when I did not deserve and when I have not yet done
anything, I became grateful. The grace shown to me wants to multiply and spread
to others. So now, I am free to care for other people because I was first shown care.
I could freely give myself to others because I have experienced how it is to be
given. And the best part of it was it was free. So as freely as I have received, I am
ever so willing to freely give it in response to what I have experienced.