REUNIONS, HERITAGE and the FUTURE

As vacations come and go on the month of April to May and the Christmas celebration, weddings, reunions, festivals, or tours to the cool Cordillera Mountains, streams or rivers emerge. Radio stations, social networks and text messages are full of announcement for these lines of activities.

As for weddings, we have to be prepared for gifts and donations for the church and of course the married couples. You also have to be prepared with sayings or family advice and love songs dedicated to the couples to start up their married life.

For reunions, it is important that we know our origin. Know our family and clan history, culture, tradition and other practices. You should also be familiar with our folk songs and dances. There are customs that are passé but this will have to be reformed and corrected. But still there are many old ways of life that are inherited from our ancestors that are confined to teachings of the Ten Commandments and the Law of Nature.  

It is our heritage that make us a people and as individuals. A saying goes that “when you don’t know your origin, you may not know where to end.”  

For festivals or ecotours, there are agencies and organizations involved in the promotion of these events. The promotion of our tourism destinations, culture and traditions should be a concern to the community such that the balance in environmental issues should be a matter of concern.

Whether the events are for family affair, solidarity affair or business affair, these events are commendable as it directs our lives to a right destiny as we invoke the Guidance and Blessings of Our Almighty Creator and that these events be successful and fulfilled.

 
For this planet that we make use and take advantage of, it is our responsibility to protect, nurture and preserve it. We take advantage of the activities we do every day and in any event. To the observations by concerned people, our planet is deteriorating as the days go by. There are sectors in our society that don’t care of where we came from and just thinking of themselves. Worst, many are materialistic and forget the Mother Earth or its Creator.

To this day, we need men who should make our world a better place to live in. We therefore need “People who are positive thinkers; the Good Ones who Change Others, the Better Ones who Change the System, and the Best Ones who change Themselves.“