Reflection Journals

Please reflect on the lyrics of the song Ang BAYAN KO, popularized by Freddie Aguilar. Explain how does the message of the song reflect on the concept of freedom.                     For more than 300 years of being a slave in your own country, I sometimes wonder how does it feel to be controlled by someone else in your own house. You know, when you need to follow orders from a person you barely know. Ah, it is similar with being holdup in your own home. You have no choice but to give everything or that criminal might kill you and your loved ones. It is a burning feeling of witnessing how much your family experience abused in your own house and being helpless.       That is how I perceived by the burning desire of our national heroes to revolutionized and condemned war. I now wonder how hard life was back then. I realized how much painful it was to be helpless in situations you know you cannot contro...

 Journal Writing Reflection: According to Marcel, “Human living is living for something other than itself.” a. Give examples from your own life when you focused on the welfare/good of another person.  b. Describe your experiences when you met people who are selfish, self-centered, haven’t de-centered at all.                 This is one of the hardest reflections I’ve encountered so far. When I tried to remember all my life for the last 18 years, it is just about me, how I struggled and suffered to get what all I want. I have written several times in my last reflection journals that I am a self-centered person. That is why I really can’t remember anything I have done for the sake of others. Maybe I did one or two times but it was always for my own sake. It is me that I’m thinking before doing so. It is like I am thinking what good things will I get from sacrificing a little of myself. If I see that I will not benefit from it...