Mr. Congeniality

After Church, we went to Pizza Hut, Fort. While walking towards the restaurant and holding Boing by the hand, he saw some kids at the second floor of the building. He kept on shouting, "Hi, hi, hi friends!" as he smiled at them.

When I was young, I would smile at people, but Boing has initiative. He would say hi first to a person. He would say "Thank you" to a carpark cashier, which he learned from his Ate Kitkat, who knows how to make someone's day by doing something that others don't usually do.

This energetic boy is showing signs that it will be very easy for him to connect to people when he grows up. Boing, I hope you will remember these days, wherein you would do positive things to people eventhough they don't know how to respond to you. Do not let this frustrate you and change the way you talk to people.

Always remember your mission which God prepared for you. Let's build the Filipino nation, so that we would all graduate from the kanya-kanya, galit-galit, kampi-kampi system and start to focus on doing things together, as one people. Help break the psychographical barriers so that time will come when there will no longer be Ilocanos, Pampangenos, Bulacenos, Cavitenos, Batangenos, and all the "nos" with different connotations. Aim to demolish the maginoo-alipin thinking and the regional discrimination. Eventhough there is hopelessness today, which leads to migration and God forbid, the dilution of the Filipino blood, we believe that there is hope in Christ. All of us will be called Filipinos with distinct culture, and we shall be proud of who we are. You will be a great leader someday. We'll be counting on you, Braveheart.