When I was in 4th year high school, I was pressured because this will be the time we will choose what course we have to take and what school we want to apply. My first choice was Tourism because I really want to travel the world and I'm into history but the problem was my height. I'm not that small but my height was not qualified in standard height of a Flight Attendant. My Dad wants me to take Culinary to follow his step but he said it's still my choice.
My heart was full of doubts and disappointments but still I applied for it. I applied BS Tourism in UST and unfortunately I failed their exam. I try my luck in Lyceum and I passed their exam but I wasn't happy and my heart was full of doubts.
I give time myself to thinks things over, what i really want. And I realized that I like Engineering but I am afraid to tell my parents because they knew how weak I am when it comes to math. But there is something in my heart approves this choice and that gives me courage to tell my parents. And at last i told them what i want, at first they were shock but later on they allow me.
I enrolled BS Electrical Engineering in Mapua after passing their entrance exam. My life their wasn't easy. They are advance,the system are fast and the struggle of commuting everyday. I can't cope with my subjects anymore so I decided to transfer. I'm so happy that my Dad do understand me, he knew what i was going through. He himself agreed to transfer school.
I choose FEU-EAC because it's Tri-semester unlike the Quarterm system of Mapua. And this time, I made the right choice. I get to enjoy my College life while learning. I cant Imagine the feeling when you I to understand my Math class. I feel so proud that finally I knew what i want.
Luy, John Christian BSEE - H406 My personal experience about Plato's Allegory of the cave was when I was still in Mapua, in my first believe that I can stay longer/graduate in that school but atleast I achieve being a 2nd year college student there but then I thought that being enrolled in a quarterm will be easy for me but then again I give up and transfer here in FEU-EAC for me to pass all my subjects every term and graduate as soon I have completed all my passed subjects in my curriculum. ( i hope so xD )
I was once a prisoner in a cave just like the man from Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” except the fact that my cave is ironically different to the cave defined from the story. My cave was my old school, De La Salle University-Manila. You might think that my story is predictable and analogous to the stories of other students, a typical story about a student who got kicked out, transferred schools and that’s about it. Well, I believe mine is rather different, I’m not just a student who got kicked out but I was a person trying to survive the unfortunate turn of events. For me, it was the end of my life. You might think I am overreacting but you might understand why I thought of it that way.
I am not trying to brag anything but honestly my parents raised me in a good environment meaning I can get almost anything I need and want, I can hang out and party with my friends whenever I want, we can afford to go abroad, money was never a burden to us. I never had any problems in my early schooling. Basically, I don’t recall facing problems as big as the problems experienced by other people at my age. In short, I was living a sheltered and pampered life. I didn’t realize I’m a prisoner ever since.
When I found out I need to transfer schools, it shockingly hit me. It was hard to accept the fact that I can no longer stay in my University that I really love and the fact that I am a kicked out student. I got depressed; I really don’t know what to do, what to think and where to even start. My parents got disappointed but accepted it eventually. I think they have no choice but to accept my situation because during the days that I got depressed I actually did something bad. Due to my depression, I drank a number of pills and was rushed to the hospital. My family tried everything to comfort and to be there for me. Until one day, I asked my parents to allow me to go abroad for a few days since I can’t surpass the hurt; I needed to get out of the country to be able to think straight. They allowed me to go to Singapore and I brought along my best friend. Then last January 2011, I found out that one of my La Salle friends also got kicked out and she decided to transfer to FEU-EAC. January is the start of the term there and it is tri-semester just like DLSU. Due to what happened, I’m still doubting myself and my capabilities, I loss my confidence but I didn’t let that corrupt my mind and bring me down. Unexpectedly, I transferred to FEU-EAC. For the first few days of being a new student in FEU-EAC, I had a hard time coping up with the sudden changes. It was a totally new environment, very different from DLSU. I didn’t like my new school at first but as the days go by, Iittle by little I accepted FEU-EAC as my new school. My new school helped me realize the things I haven’t realized before. I met new friends, different from my old friends. However, I learned things from them, things that I never took the time to notice or even care back then. I treated small things as if it was a very important matter, but now come to think of it, there are far more important things that should come first. Some of them have a different life from what I have. They helped me realized that I am still lucky having the life I have.
From the meaning of the “Allegory of the Cave,” we must first live in someone’s shoes before we can be able to feel what they feel and understand how they live. Being kicked out is one of the things I never would expect to encounter in my life. I treated that as a challenge and through that I realized there’s a bigger picture outside my sheltered world. I believe that there’s a very good reason why I need to experience that, because God have better plans for me. I am not ashamed with what I’ve been through, it changed me but it made me stronger. Now, I treat my so-called unfortunate event to a learning experience that I’d like to share to others so they may appreciate what they have now and avoid regretting later.
There's a certain person that me and my friend didn't liked at all. Maybe because of some differences in their attitudes, there are times that my friend and that person fight each other. Being a more patient person compared to my friend, I decided not to join in their fights.
But later on, I discovered that the personality of the person that we hate isn't bad at all. Later on, we became friends. I told my friend that instead of fighting, we should make friends with that person. He became mad at me because he thinks that I'm becoming a traitor to our friendship. We came to the point that our friendship was on the line.
Thank God that all things are now settled, but still my "old" friend still hates my "new" friend.
I've always wanted to try new things, for in return maybe I would be able to find where I do best. And just recently, I was introduced to that card game called Poker. There my experience about Plato's Allegory of the cave begun.
I have no idea on how to play Poker, all that I know is it makes you penniless when you've got so unlucky. And so my cousin, who is highly addicted to that game, decided to teach me through playing it online. As expected, I got busted.
I have the confidence that I would be able to learn that game, but my cousin do not. To cut the long story short, he left me. But the moment he was gone, I was surprisingly lucky to win, consecutively. And of course, he wouldn't believe it. He even told me that I could start my own barber shop.
At least, I know for myself that I won, and that I have something to write for my Philosophy paper. :)
My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave when I was a child, I thought that the moon is following me. I wondered why so i asked my mom about it. She said it was God, serving as a light and guiding meat night. But now I realized that it was just a moon. It came to my senses that my mom just said that when I was young cause I wouldn't understand what the moon really is.
My personal experience regarding the Allegory of the Cave dates back on my high school life.
It was when I were on first year wherein there is this new girl, a classmate of mine, who can be called as “crush ng bayan” whom the other girls in our class hated, maybe because of insecurity. It was only on our first year wherein we were able to be on the same class together. We were already third year students but still, we never had an exchange of words with each other. I kept on ignoring her maybe because as a high school student, I did not want to provoke trouble in my life, and besides I was never interested in her in any way at that time.
That is what I thought, but things changed when we both joined the CAT training. The training brought us closer to each other until we both hang out even after school and also in breaks. Our friendship grew up to the point that I can already consider her as my best-friend. Things were going well but then again, one event opened my eyes on how she was being tortured inside because of the bullying of the other girls. It was after our Junior-Senior Prom wherein she won the title of Mrs.Junior. The other girls told her that she did not deserve the award and maybe even bribed the judges to win it. Rumors then spread that she broke her glass trophy, the award from the prom, into pieces. I then confronted her to see if she was alright but never did talked about the rumor. She then started to cry and all I were able to do was to hug her because I am seriously bad at making others feel better. I then promised to her to be on her side from that day on. Afterwards, I spoke to the other girls that was bullying her, whom I consider as my friends as well, to just stop it and why not just be friends. They replied that her image to them will never change and that she would always be an enemy to them.
These were all on the past, right now, those other girls already realized that she really was a good person and these girls including her, and also my other male friends were now the members of my “barkada”. Ironically, what we hated on the past were the ones who completed us on who we are right now, that is why opening our heart and mind into new things will always be someday healthy for us.
Allegory of the Cave Mathematics is the science or branch of knowledge dealing with measurements, numbers and quantities. This is the subject that some of us hate to study because it is difficult. For example, you are going to solve an equation that has a number and a letter and you are going to find the value of it. As you can see an equation with that contains a number only is sometimes hard to be solved but when a letter was added it becomes harder to be solved. When I was an elementary student I always hate mathematics because it is hard and you can always see on my report card that this subject is the lowest grade that I have or the only failed grade. But when I reach high school I came to realize that mathematics is very easy if you will have the patience and the guts that you can solve it and you can see on my report card that this subject is the highest grade that I have. This subject became my favourite up to now.
Based on the story about the allegro of the cave, I also experienced that in my life, I am always contented of what I have or being capable of, that I am afraid to go on or to try something new. When I’m in high school I used to be one of the good students in our campus. I mean not that “good”, I’m only just a friendly student, A leader of our organization, A good and a true friend, Sport lover, Dancer, Not good in math, etc… We are contented of whom we are, of what we have, during our high school time but after our graduation I was afraid to go on college, I don’t know what kind of world that I will face and I don’t know what kind of life that I want, only few of my friends tried to face that world and I decided to go with them and now I’m taking Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at FEU-East Asia College and I realized in myself that I’m more than enough, that I shouldn’t contented of what I have, Dream high and become a successful man, etc… but when I returned to our province to have a reunion with my friends no one believed in my story but it was ok because for me to know your limitation you should push yourself first.
Last week, my friends and I was talking about music and we also talked about genres and the guitarist. When I told Ryan that I know one friend of mine (From our province) learns the guitar scales first before knowing the strumming of the guitar. He objects that it can’t be true because strumming of the guitar is one of the basics. Strumming is the basic or the first part you must know in the guitar then the chords. Now, this is the scenario. Me: Our guitarist learns the guitar scaling first before knowing the strumming. He learns the advance before the basics. My Friend: Impossible! If you’re studying the guitar you should first know the strum because that’s the basics Me: Yea, believe me. He even played the arranged Canon Rock of Jerry C in front of us then after he plays I took the guitar and showed him some music that I played then strum. He said I do the strumming part then he will be doing the lead. My Friend: That’s impossible! That’s a joke! I don’t encounter guitarist like that. Even professional guitarist they even start with the basics. Me: It’s because his uncle was a lead guitarist then his uncle gave him some guitar scale to be practiced. Then after, he learns the scaling and became good at lead but don’t know how to strum at first. But now his okay with strum. Haha My Friend: I don’t believe you ‘coz I never see anyone learns the guitar scales first before knowing the basic parts. Me: Believe what you have to believe. I just told you what I saw.
And that’s one of my allegory of the cave. Sometimes people wants evidence but even if you showed them proofs, there’s always doubt in it.
When I was 17 yrs old there was I time that I doubt myself if there’s a God, literally the creator. I ask my subordinate if he believe in God, he say “of course if there’s no there’s no us” he said But I ask him “how did God create us?”. According in my theory we are not alone in the universe, There’s so many beings or other living things in our universe, we don’t know how advance the Other planets are. so I searched and I have found out that long ago our planet is at peace like any other planet does quit, simple, and unknown creatures have been scattered of course there’s no human yet. Until other what we called astronauts from other planets have visit our earth, They made an expedition and made an experiment, they combine their sperm with the cell of an ape, and maybe that’s how they called evolution began. I base in the bible in genesis 1:26 God said “let us make a man in our image, after our likeness”. What I meant is, if it explain in philosophic way practically it can be made by science within the grasp of a very advance stage made by other being making themselves God or creator. They can create something unexplainable to human minds because of lack of knowledge that’s why they call it miracle.. and even I have lack of preference about what I think and what I’ve read. I’ve tried to ask any of the church people but they all told me about miraculous way God mad human.. and I tried to told them about what I think of it, but of course they don’t believe me. So I think of it one day what if my theory is true.. if the alien made the human then who made the aliens, and who made everything in motion that made them do it.. of course the God the ever existing God,
In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave. When both me and my cousin was little we watch a lot of movies like “Dragon Ball Z” “Mask Rider Black” etc. We always do whatever we’ve watched in the movies, thinking that we can also do what they can do, and that they do really exist because of seeing them in the television. I can say that the movies we watched are the shadows in allegory of the cave.
After for a while when we were growing we still believe that the movies we watched do really happened. But there was a time when I have been in an accident in a bike doing what I saw in the movie. My mom asked me that why did you try to do a stunt like that. I told her because I can also do it because in the movie and they can do it. Well I am still a child not knowing what reality and what is fiction. My mom told me that not all we watched in a movie is real. After hearing what my mom told me. That made me think and opened my mind that not all the things we watched in the television is real.
Now I have realized that not all the things we watched in the television is real. I try to talk with my cousin who still believes in all we have watched. I told him that not all that is real and we do not do the things they do. He laugh at me and told me that “no your wrong couz”. He does not want to believe me no matter what I tell him. Nothing would change his mind. I can compare to the allegory of the cave because no matter what you say to him and if that’s what he see. That’s ]the only thing that he will be believing. Because of that’s what he seen.
Last vacation, I was not yet ready to go to college because someone told me that college is really hard and no fun, so those words stuck in my head.
the day of enrollment, when I came to FEU I was so scared to go inside, students really look so serious and matured. I was thinking like I will never gonna fit in college and not gonna enjoy it. After that I asked someone again if college is really that hard, she said that "1st and 2nd year feels like you're still in high school and not that hard, when you turn 3rd and 4th year that's the time everything will get serious". "but that doesn't mean there's no more fun." she added. Even she said, college is not that bad I still don't believe it. The more I think about me entering the college life, the more nervous i get. Because of that,a lot of negative thoughts came to my mind. Like, i will never have friends, I 'll get bullied by other students,and not do well in class.
few months later, my first day in college has began. I was so nervous while entering my first class. I thought that i will never have any friends and not gonna enjoy it. But i was wrong, I met a lot of friends and enjoyed it.
I told this to my younger sister(2 years younger than me) but she didn't believe me, she believes that college is really hard and no fun at all.
My story is not that far from the other's, I entered UST-College of Architecture with high spirits that someday I'll walk out the arch of the centuries as a Thomasian Architect. But it is not my fate. My professor gave me a grade which I don't deserve. I resisted to protest because it's not my nature. For in my mind that professor is dead. (:
It had been a common sound among my peers to make fun of FEU, because it is what those who is seniors to us told us. They taught us that FEU was just a disposal of those who failed in UST. One of the popular puns is that "If you get debarred, Benavides gives a one-way ticket to paris, Paristern University".
But then I was cast out of the cave that is UST, and went to the wild world of FEU. I saw it's magnificence and grandeur. And now, every time I go back to UST to tell my "cellmates" that it's not bad out there, They refuse to believe.
I was once a Thomasian and my personal experience of the "Allegory of the Cave" was my transferring at FEU-EAC. Transferring here at EAC made me feel shy because me and my friends always thought that this school is not that good compared to UST, but then, here I am, studying here. I also felt sad and did not see my friends for a couple of weeks because i feel so ashamed of myself. A couple of weeks passed and I realized that FEU is also a good school and I thought that maybe this is really where I belong. Now, whenever I see my former classmates I always tell them that we got the wrong impression about this university but they don't believe me. Well, what matters most is that I now know the truth about this school.
My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave was I was a high school student. Did you ever believe in a Ghost? I don't. My father and mother tells me they are real. I never did believe them because all my life I haven't encountered a single one. My mom always tell me that "just because you can't see them doesn't means they are not real". I for one believe that "to see is to believe". My brother also tells me that ghost are real. But to this day I'm still having a hard time believing them. My grandma always tells me that not all people are capable of seeing what others can. That I can believe.
In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave when I was a child I don’t believe to that there is a dwarf in our house. There was a time that I went home late because I go to my cousin’s house and play there. While I am in front of our house I saw a dwarfs playing in our garden. I was so scared at that time and crying so loud. My mom asked me why I am crying, I said to my mom that I saw dwarfs in our garden but she didn’t believe me and she said that it was only my imagination.
There was an incident wherein my friends asked me to join them to go in a bar. At first, I was in doubt that I might not enter the place because in a place like that minors are not allowed and I was a minor then. Somehow the thought of joining them because I was so depressed that time and finally, so I, did join them. When we got there I was still not sure and there’s a touch of nervousness for the guard would not let me in and then until I got inside that all my hesitations went away. There we played the so-called beerpong and it was my first time to play that, honestly it was fun. And then there, we enjoyed all night. Finally, when I got home I told that what had happened that night to my parents while my sisters were listening and they did not believe in me.
When i was a kid, i've always believed that there are 'others' living in our house. My mom always tells me that ghosts are just in the mind. i believed her. until when i turned 5, i was sleeping at my brother's room when suddenly i saw a shadow on the wall. My brother and i were the only ones upstairs. i was so scared, i hid under the blanket. the next day, i told my mom what i saw on the wall and she didn't believe me. since then, we never talk about anything that involves supernatural.
This is my personal experience of the “Allegory of the cave”. When I was in high school my usual grades were almost failing, but there was this instance which led to my father’s and also my sister’s doubts. In my last year in high school, our class our teacher had been showing our grades to us and in my surprise I didn’t except what I saw, I ranked 3rd in our class. Then when I arrived from school I told my father regarding the issuance of cards that he must get my class card from my adviser aside from that I also told him about the good news concerning my being top 3 in class unfortunately he did not believe it instead he laughed sarcastically together with my sister who then I didn’t know was listening. They even bet that if I really was telling the truth they would treat me for lunch. Until my father has gotten my card and finally believed in me and gave me some treat.
My own personal experience from the "Allegory of the cave" is just a simple one. When I was in highschool, I wanted to play "Magic cards" just because I'm amazed of it's awesome artwork. Then on, I decided to play it and learn how to play it right. My friend of course, taught me how to play it since then. I trusted what he taught me about the rules of the game of Magic: The Gathering. After school days, we always play it at their house and at the same time enjoying it as possible as I can even though I'm just a beginner or what you called "newbie". It took me sometime to master what he taught me about the game (rulings) and played with other players as well. One day, I saw a poster about a professional tournament and it came to my mind that I wanna join that contest. After that day, I saw a professional player and played with him. This is the funny part, I used my so called "knowledge" playing the game, after we took turns, he mentioned that I made something wrong like it's not like that to attack for example and about deducting life points from him. Of course, that's what I knew! He said to me almost all my moves are wrong and on that day he taught me what is right and what is wrong, so my adaptation to the game again changed took days to analyze and simplify my strategies. I tried to change of what I used to before which is wrong and apply what is right that day since. Going back up at my friend, I said to him that what he taught of me is almost wrong. He too can't believe himself because he's just used to it.I told him and taught him the right moves since then. Later on, after it took me months to play well and strategize my moves, I finally decided to join the professional tournament. And on that day, I finished third place! Not so bad for a beginner. It is just because of my self-confidence that got me on that spot, and my conclusion is, just believe at yourself, anything's possible under the sun.
My experience of "Allegory of the cave", When I was a kid my twin brother and I was always cleaning our backyard at our house in Laguna. We play a long time while cleaning the backyard it took us about 4hrs staying there picking up dried leaves and putting it a crater we made in the corner of our backyard. After putting it in the crater we put a fire and let it burn. While burning my twin brother and I play at the fire until we ask ourselves what time is it? we're shocked that it is 3 o clock in the afternoon. My twin brother leaved me there. In my childish imagination i put a large amount of water the fire to take the fire off, then SHAZAM! the fire is gone with a large smoke in it. Then I leaved then place. After an our, about 7 o clock in the evening I went to our backyard just to find something what to do with. Then suddenly I saw the crater with leaves was still burning with a large fire. then I freaked out, I don't know what to do that time, I just kept it as a secret that day. The time goes by a told it to my twin brother, but he doesn't believe me, I told it to my grandma, still she doesn't believe me. I think of it that it was just an incident that I still left some part of it burning, then the fire grow up.
Honestly I never experience that kind situation but one time we watch a movie the title is “Home along” with my uncle. At the middle part of the movie. I said to my uncle that maybe I already watch that movie but it’s not. I learn that kind of situation call “de javu”.
Quisto, Richelle P.
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When I was in 4th year high school, I was pressured because this will be the time we will choose what course we have to take and what school we want to apply. My first choice was Tourism because I really want to travel the world and I'm into history but the problem was my height. I'm not that small but my height was not qualified in standard height of a Flight Attendant. My Dad wants me to take Culinary to follow his step but he said it's still my choice.
My heart was full of doubts and disappointments but still I applied for it. I applied BS Tourism in UST and unfortunately I failed their exam. I try my luck in Lyceum and I passed their exam but I wasn't happy and my heart was full of doubts.
I give time myself to thinks things over, what i really want. And I realized that I like Engineering but I am afraid to tell my parents because they knew how weak I am when it comes to math. But there is something in my heart approves this choice and that gives me courage to tell my parents. And at last i told them what i want, at first they were shock but later on they allow me.
I enrolled BS Electrical Engineering in Mapua after passing their entrance exam. My life their wasn't easy. They are advance,the system are fast and the struggle of commuting everyday. I can't cope with my subjects anymore so I decided to transfer. I'm so happy that my Dad do understand me, he knew what i was going through. He himself agreed to transfer school.
I choose FEU-EAC because it's Tri-semester unlike the Quarterm system of Mapua. And this time, I made the right choice. I get to enjoy my College life while learning. I cant Imagine the feeling when you I to understand my Math class. I feel so proud that finally I knew what i want.
It's a matter of loving what you do.
Luy, John Christian
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My personal experience about Plato's Allegory of the cave was when I was still in Mapua, in my first believe that I can stay longer/graduate in that school but atleast I achieve being a 2nd year college student there but then I thought that being enrolled in a quarterm will be easy for me but then again I give up and transfer here in FEU-EAC for me to pass all my subjects every term and graduate as soon I have completed all my passed subjects in my curriculum. ( i hope so xD )
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I was once a prisoner in a cave just like the man from Plato’s “The Allegory of the Cave,” except the fact that my cave is ironically different to the cave defined from the story. My cave was my old school, De La Salle University-Manila. You might think that my story is predictable and analogous to the stories of other students, a typical story about a student who got kicked out, transferred schools and that’s about it. Well, I believe mine is rather different, I’m not just a student who got kicked out but I was a person trying to survive the unfortunate turn of events. For me, it was the end of my life. You might think I am overreacting but you might understand why I thought of it that way.
I am not trying to brag anything but honestly my parents raised me in a good environment meaning I can get almost anything I need and want, I can hang out and party with my friends whenever I want, we can afford to go abroad, money was never a burden to us. I never had any problems in my early schooling. Basically, I don’t recall facing problems as big as the problems experienced by other people at my age. In short, I was living a sheltered and pampered life. I didn’t realize I’m a prisoner ever since.
When I found out I need to transfer schools, it shockingly hit me. It was hard to accept the fact that I can no longer stay in my University that I really love and the fact that I am a kicked out student. I got depressed; I really don’t know what to do, what to think and where to even start. My parents got disappointed but accepted it eventually. I think they have no choice but to accept my situation because during the days that I got depressed I actually did something bad. Due to my depression, I drank a number of pills and was rushed to the hospital. My family tried everything to comfort and to be there for me. Until one day, I asked my parents to allow me to go abroad for a few days since I can’t surpass the hurt; I needed to get out of the country to be able to think straight. They allowed me to go to Singapore and I brought along my best friend. Then last January 2011, I found out that one of my La Salle friends also got kicked out and she decided to transfer to FEU-EAC. January is the start of the term there and it is tri-semester just like DLSU. Due to what happened, I’m still doubting myself and my capabilities, I loss my confidence but I didn’t let that corrupt my mind and bring me down. Unexpectedly, I transferred to FEU-EAC. For the first few days of being a new student in FEU-EAC, I had a hard time coping up with the sudden changes. It was a totally new environment, very different from DLSU. I didn’t like my new school at first but as the days go by, Iittle by little I accepted FEU-EAC as my new school. My new school helped me realize the things I haven’t realized before. I met new friends, different from my old friends. However, I learned things from them, things that I never took the time to notice or even care back then. I treated small things as if it was a very important matter, but now come to think of it, there are far more important things that should come first. Some of them have a different life from what I have. They helped me realized that I am still lucky having the life I have.
From the meaning of the “Allegory of the Cave,” we must first live in someone’s shoes before we can be able to feel what they feel and understand how they live. Being kicked out is one of the things I never would expect to encounter in my life. I treated that as a challenge and through that I realized there’s a bigger picture outside my sheltered world. I believe that there’s a very good reason why I need to experience that, because God have better plans for me. I am not ashamed with what I’ve been through, it changed me but it made me stronger. Now, I treat my so-called unfortunate event to a learning experience that I’d like to share to others so they may appreciate what they have now and avoid regretting later.
AGAPITO, MATTHEW A.
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There's a certain person that me and my friend didn't liked at all. Maybe because of some differences in their attitudes, there are times that my friend and that person fight each other. Being a more patient person compared to my friend, I decided not to join in their fights.
But later on, I discovered that the personality of the person that we hate isn't bad at all. Later on, we became friends. I told my friend that instead of fighting, we should make friends with that person. He became mad at me because he thinks that I'm becoming a traitor to our friendship. We came to the point that our friendship was on the line.
Thank God that all things are now settled, but still my "old" friend still hates my "new" friend.
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I've always wanted to try new things, for in return maybe I would be able to find where I do best. And just recently, I was introduced to that card game called Poker. There my experience about Plato's Allegory of the cave begun.
I have no idea on how to play Poker, all that I know is it makes you penniless when you've got so unlucky. And so my cousin, who is highly addicted to that game, decided to teach me through playing it online. As expected, I got busted.
I have the confidence that I would be able to learn that game, but my cousin do not. To cut the long story short, he left me. But the moment he was gone, I was surprisingly lucky to win, consecutively. And of course, he wouldn't believe it. He even told me that I could start my own barber shop.
At least, I know for myself that I won, and that I have something to write for my Philosophy paper. :)
PULIDO, ALJOEBELL C.
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My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave when I was a child, I thought that the moon is following me. I wondered why so i asked my mom about it. She said it was God, serving as a light and guiding meat night. But now I realized that it was just a moon. It came to my senses that my mom just said that when I was young cause I wouldn't understand what the moon really is.
#13 JIMENEZ, NIKKO ANDRE L.
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My personal experience regarding the Allegory of the Cave dates back on my high school life.
It was when I were on first year wherein there is this new girl, a classmate of mine, who can be called as “crush ng bayan” whom the other girls in our class hated, maybe because of insecurity. It was only on our first year wherein we were able to be on the same class together. We were already third year students but still, we never had an exchange of words with each other. I kept on ignoring her maybe because as a high school student, I did not want to provoke trouble in my life, and besides I was never interested in her in any way at that time.
That is what I thought, but things changed when we both joined the CAT training. The training brought us closer to each other until we both hang out even after school and also in breaks. Our friendship grew up to the point that I can already consider her as my best-friend. Things were going well but then again, one event opened my eyes on how she was being tortured inside because of the bullying of the other girls. It was after our Junior-Senior Prom wherein she won the title of Mrs.Junior. The other girls told her that she did not deserve the award and maybe even bribed the judges to win it. Rumors then spread that she broke her glass trophy, the award from the prom, into pieces. I then confronted her to see if she was alright but never did talked about the rumor. She then started to cry and all I were able to do was to hug her because I am seriously bad at making others feel better. I then promised to her to be on her side from that day on. Afterwards, I spoke to the other girls that was bullying her, whom I consider as my friends as well, to just stop it and why not just be friends. They replied that her image to them will never change and that she would always be an enemy to them.
These were all on the past, right now, those other girls already realized that she really was a good person and these girls including her, and also my other male friends were now the members of my “barkada”. Ironically, what we hated on the past were the ones who completed us on who we are right now, that is why opening our heart and mind into new things will always be someday healthy for us.
Carsi Cruz, Alyanna Ysabelle
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Allegory of the Cave
Mathematics is the science or branch of knowledge dealing with measurements, numbers and quantities. This is the subject that some of us hate to study because it is difficult. For example, you are going to solve an equation that has a number and a letter and you are going to find the value of it. As you can see an equation with that contains a number only is sometimes hard to be solved but when a letter was added it becomes harder to be solved. When I was an elementary student I always hate mathematics because it is hard and you can always see on my report card that this subject is the lowest grade that I have or the only failed grade. But when I reach high school I came to realize that mathematics is very easy if you will have the patience and the guts that you can solve it and you can see on my report card that this subject is the highest grade that I have. This subject became my favourite up to now.
Paporo, Cabib C. Jr.
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Based on the story about the allegro of the cave, I also experienced that in my life, I am always contented of what I have or being capable of, that I am afraid to go on or to try something new. When I’m in high school I used to be one of the good students in our campus. I mean not that “good”, I’m only just a friendly student, A leader of our organization, A good and a true friend, Sport lover, Dancer, Not good in math, etc… We are contented of whom we are, of what we have, during our high school time but after our graduation I was afraid to go on college, I don’t know what kind of world that I will face and I don’t know what kind of life that I want, only few of my friends tried to face that world and I decided to go with them and now I’m taking Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering at FEU-East Asia College and I realized in myself that I’m more than enough, that I shouldn’t contented of what I have, Dream high and become a successful man, etc… but when I returned to our province to have a reunion with my friends no one believed in my story but it was ok because for me to know your limitation you should push yourself first.
MICLAT, John Edward F.
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Last week, my friends and I was talking about music and we also talked about genres and the guitarist. When I told Ryan that I know one friend of mine (From our province) learns the guitar scales first before knowing the strumming of the guitar. He objects that it can’t be true because strumming of the guitar is one of the basics. Strumming is the basic or the first part you must know in the guitar then the chords. Now, this is the scenario.
Me: Our guitarist learns the guitar scaling first before knowing the strumming. He learns the advance before the basics.
My Friend: Impossible! If you’re studying the guitar you should first know the strum because that’s the basics
Me: Yea, believe me. He even played the arranged Canon Rock of Jerry C in front of us then after he plays I took the guitar and showed him some music that I played then strum. He said I do the strumming part then he will be doing the lead.
My Friend: That’s impossible! That’s a joke! I don’t encounter guitarist like that. Even professional guitarist they even start with the basics.
Me: It’s because his uncle was a lead guitarist then his uncle gave him some guitar scale to be practiced. Then after, he learns the scaling and became good at lead but don’t know how to strum at first. But now his okay with strum. Haha
My Friend: I don’t believe you ‘coz I never see anyone learns the guitar scales first before knowing the basic parts.
Me: Believe what you have to believe. I just told you what I saw.
And that’s one of my allegory of the cave. Sometimes people wants evidence but even if you showed them proofs, there’s always doubt in it.
SANTILLAN, PATRICK JOHN F.
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When I was 17 yrs old there was I time that I doubt myself if there’s a God, literally the creator. I ask my subordinate if he believe in God, he say “of course if there’s no there’s no us” he said But I ask him “how did God create us?”. According in my theory we are not alone in the universe, There’s so many beings or other living things in our universe, we don’t know how advance the Other planets are. so I searched and I have found out that long ago our planet is at peace like any other planet does quit, simple, and unknown creatures have been scattered of course there’s no human yet. Until other what we called astronauts from other planets have visit our earth, They made an expedition and made an experiment, they combine their sperm with the cell of an ape, and maybe that’s how they called evolution began. I base in the bible in genesis 1:26 God said “let us make a man in our image, after our likeness”. What I meant is, if it explain in philosophic way practically it can be made by science within the grasp of a very advance stage made by other being making themselves God or creator. They can create something unexplainable to human minds because of lack of knowledge that’s why they call it miracle.. and even I have lack of preference about what I think and what I’ve read. I’ve tried to ask any of the church people but they all told me about miraculous way God mad human.. and I tried to told them about what I think of it, but of course they don’t believe me. So I think of it one day what if my theory is true.. if the alien made the human then who made the aliens, and who made everything in motion that made them do it.. of course the God the ever existing God,
Labalan,Jose Carlo Luis B.
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In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave. When both me and my cousin was little we watch a lot of movies like “Dragon Ball Z” “Mask Rider Black” etc. We always do whatever we’ve watched in the movies, thinking that we can also do what they can do, and that they do really exist because of seeing them in the television. I can say that the movies we watched are the shadows in allegory of the cave.
After for a while when we were growing we still believe that the movies we watched do really happened. But there was a time when I have been in an accident in a bike doing what I saw in the movie. My mom asked me that why did you try to do a stunt like that. I told her because I can also do it because in the movie and they can do it. Well I am still a child not knowing what reality and what is fiction. My mom told me that not all we watched in a movie is real. After hearing what my mom told me. That made me think and opened my mind that not all the things we watched in the television is real.
Now I have realized that not all the things we watched in the television is real. I try to talk with my cousin who still believes in all we have watched. I told him that not all that is real and we do not do the things they do. He laugh at me and told me that “no your wrong couz”. He does not want to believe me no matter what I tell him. Nothing would change his mind. I can compare to the allegory of the cave because no matter what you say to him and if that’s what he see. That’s ]the only thing that he will be believing. Because of that’s what he seen.
Sibayan
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Last vacation, I was not yet ready to go to college because someone told me that college is really hard and no fun, so those words stuck in my head.
the day of enrollment, when I came to FEU I was so scared to go inside, students really look so serious and matured. I was thinking like I will never gonna fit in college and not gonna enjoy it.
After that I asked someone again if college is really that hard, she said that "1st and 2nd year feels like you're still in high school and not that hard, when you turn 3rd and 4th year that's the time everything will get serious". "but that doesn't mean there's no more fun." she added. Even she said, college is not that bad I still don't believe it.
The more I think about me entering the college life, the more nervous i get. Because of that,a lot of negative thoughts came to my mind. Like, i will never have friends, I 'll get bullied by other students,and not do well in class.
few months later, my first day in college has began. I was so nervous while entering my first class. I thought that i will never have any friends and not gonna enjoy it. But i was wrong, I met a lot of friends and enjoyed it.
I told this to my younger sister(2 years younger than me) but she didn't believe me, she believes that college is really hard and no fun at all.
CRUZ, Marlou Cyprian Dj.
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My story is not that far from the other's, I entered UST-College of Architecture with high spirits that someday I'll walk out the arch of the centuries as a Thomasian Architect. But it is not my fate. My professor gave me a grade which I don't deserve. I resisted to protest because it's not my nature. For in my mind that professor is dead. (:
It had been a common sound among my peers to make fun of FEU, because it is what those who is seniors to us told us. They taught us that FEU was just a disposal of those who failed in UST. One of the popular puns is that "If you get debarred, Benavides gives a one-way ticket to paris, Paristern University".
But then I was cast out of the cave that is UST, and went to the wild world of FEU. I saw it's magnificence and grandeur. And now, every time I go back to UST to tell my "cellmates" that it's not bad out there, They refuse to believe.
Mendoza, Donn Kristian R.
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I was once a Thomasian and my personal experience of the "Allegory of the Cave" was my transferring at FEU-EAC. Transferring here at EAC made me feel shy because me and my friends always thought that this school is not that good compared to UST, but then, here I am, studying here. I also felt sad and did not see my friends for a couple of weeks because i feel so ashamed of myself. A couple of weeks passed and I realized that FEU is also a good school and I thought that maybe this is really where I belong. Now, whenever I see my former classmates I always tell them that we got the wrong impression about this university but they don't believe me. Well, what matters most is that I now know the truth about this school.
QUINCE, LOUBENIL S.
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My personal experience of the Allegory of the Cave was I was a high school student. Did you ever believe in a Ghost? I don't. My father and mother tells me they are real. I never did believe them because all my life I haven't encountered a single one. My mom always tell me that "just because you can't see them doesn't means they are not real". I for one believe that "to see is to believe". My brother also tells me that ghost are real. But to this day I'm still having a hard time believing them. My grandma always tells me that not all people are capable of seeing what others can. That I can believe.
RODA, CHRISTER A.
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In my life I have also experienced the allegory of the cave when I was a child I don’t believe to that there is a dwarf in our house. There was a time that I went home late because I go to my cousin’s house and play there. While I am in front of our house I saw a dwarfs playing in our garden. I was so scared at that time and crying so loud. My mom asked me why I am crying, I said to my mom that I saw dwarfs in our garden but she didn’t believe me and she said that it was only my imagination.
Ramoy, Rome Vincent G
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There was an incident wherein my friends asked me to join them to go in a bar. At first, I was in doubt that I might not enter the place because in a place like that minors are not allowed and I was a minor then. Somehow the thought of joining them because I was so depressed that time and finally, so I, did join them.
When we got there I was still not sure and there’s a touch of nervousness for the guard would not let me in and then until I got inside that all my hesitations went away. There we played the so-called beerpong and it was my first time to play that, honestly it was fun. And then there, we enjoyed all night.
Finally, when I got home I told that what had happened that night to my parents while my sisters were listening and they did not believe in me.
JOSEF, CARMEL C.
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When i was a kid, i've always believed that there are 'others' living in our house. My mom always tells me that ghosts are just in the mind. i believed her. until when i turned 5, i was sleeping at my brother's room when suddenly i saw a shadow on the wall. My brother and i were the only ones upstairs. i was so scared, i hid under the blanket.
the next day, i told my mom what i saw on the wall and she didn't believe me. since then, we never talk about anything that involves supernatural.
Trinidad, Daryll Joeryl J.
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This is my personal experience of the “Allegory of the cave”. When I was in high school my usual grades were almost failing, but there was this instance which led to my father’s and also my sister’s doubts. In my last year in high school, our class our teacher had been showing our grades to us and in my surprise I didn’t except what I saw, I ranked 3rd in our class. Then when I arrived from school I told my father regarding the issuance of cards that he must get my class card from my adviser aside from that I also told him about the good news concerning my being top 3 in class unfortunately he did not believe it instead he laughed sarcastically together with my sister who then I didn’t know was listening. They even bet that if I really was telling the truth they would treat me for lunch. Until my father has gotten my card and finally believed in me and gave me some treat.
Dela Cruz, Paolo F.
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My own personal experience from the "Allegory of the cave" is just a simple one. When I was in highschool, I wanted to play "Magic cards" just because I'm amazed of it's awesome artwork. Then on, I decided to play it and learn how to play it right. My friend of course, taught me how to play it since then. I trusted what he taught me about the rules of the game of Magic: The Gathering. After school days, we always play it at their house and at the same time enjoying it as possible as I can even though I'm just a beginner or what you called "newbie". It took me sometime to master what he taught me about the game (rulings) and played with other players as well. One day, I saw a poster about a professional tournament and it came to my mind that I wanna join that contest. After that day, I saw a professional player and played with him. This is the funny part, I used my so called "knowledge" playing the game, after we took turns, he mentioned that I made something wrong like it's not like that to attack for example and about deducting life points from him. Of course, that's what I knew! He said to me almost all my moves are wrong and on that day he taught me what is right and what is wrong, so my adaptation to the game again changed took days to analyze and simplify my strategies. I tried to change of what I used to before which is wrong and apply what is right that day since. Going back up at my friend, I said to him that what he taught of me is almost wrong. He too can't believe himself because he's just used to it.I told him and taught him the right moves since then. Later on, after it took me months to play well and strategize my moves, I finally decided to join the professional tournament. And on that day, I finished third place! Not so bad for a beginner. It is just because of my self-confidence that got me on that spot, and my conclusion is, just believe at yourself, anything's possible under the sun.
Tabia, Carleon Gerard O.
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My experience of "Allegory of the cave", When I was a kid my twin brother and I was always cleaning our backyard at our house in Laguna. We play a long time while cleaning the backyard it took us about 4hrs staying there picking up dried leaves and putting it a crater we made in the corner of our backyard. After putting it in the crater we put a fire and let it burn. While burning my twin brother and I play at the fire until we ask ourselves what time is it? we're shocked that it is 3 o clock in the afternoon. My twin brother leaved me there. In my childish imagination i put a large amount of water the fire to take the fire off, then SHAZAM! the fire is gone with a large smoke in it. Then I leaved then place.
After an our, about 7 o clock in the evening I went to our backyard just to find something what to do with. Then suddenly I saw the crater with leaves was still burning with a large fire. then I freaked out, I don't know what to do that time, I just kept it as a secret that day. The time goes by a told it to my twin brother, but he doesn't believe me, I told it to my grandma, still she doesn't believe me.
I think of it that it was just an incident that I still left some part of it burning, then the fire grow up.
Mariano, Julian Jude I.
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Honestly I never experience that kind situation but one time we watch a movie the title is “Home along” with my uncle. At the middle part of the movie. I said to my uncle that maybe I already watch that movie but it’s not. I learn that kind of situation call “de javu”.