Because of a restaurant I had experience the allegory of the cave. When I’m still in Intramuros my friends told me that there is a restaurant near in our dormitory. They told that the foods there were very delicious and affordable. To prove it, we went to the restaurant to try their menus. And my friends are correct. Their foods have great taste and the prices were really affordable.
Me and my friends were afraid of what they call "Nuno sa Punso" when we were a child. They believed that in that pile of soil lives an "engkanto" called "Nuno". As a child, we were afraid to go near or examine what is inside that pile of soil.
One day I was watching television and the show was about incredible animals. There they featured about termites and where they live. I saw that the small hump of soil that we were afraid of was really a house built by termites.
So the following day, I told my friends about it but they did not believed me. I wanted to show them what's inside the "Punso" but they did not let me because they were to afraid that something bad might happen. Then after that, I decided to keep it to myself and just let them know themselves what it really is.
My personal experience of "Allegory of the Cave" was:
It was one of the things that I would not forget about my life. It was the time when I started to doubt to pursue my first course in college. I was formerly a student of MIT(Mapua Institute of Technology) as a Civil Engineering student. Civil Engineering was my First choice besides Architecture and then when I was on my Third Year on college, I started to like some other course, I was doing a research about some other course that would possibly be much better in the future for me then comes the course ECE(Electronics and Communication Engineering), I was amazed on my research about this course, It made me realize that I could perhaps be an ECE rather than CE. But looking at my Standing, I'm on my Third year, Majoring days of my college life. I could pursue my CE course and finish it, but I really like ECE most. So I made a tough decision by choosing ECE instead of CE. At first, I was afraid that I had made a wrong decision, that maybe ECE is not for me. But now I'm an ECE student of FEU-East Asia College and I'm starting to like my life here in FEU-EAC and I'm really doing well.
Things really do came without you noticing that it already passes.
AVELLANOZA, QUEEN-JOANN J. T31, BSCE, TF/3:00-5:00pm #2 My Own "Allegory of the Cave".
We have different insights about what the allegory of the cave is. I have many experiences that I may link regarding this topic but one outstanding experience I chose to share and I am really glad to say that I am very proud of it.
During my childhood years, my whole family clan is always planning of an outing or we call it "summer reunion". This is always happening every summer yearly until now. I was 8 years old when we held our summer vacation somewhere in Bagong Bayan Taguig. The resort was really fascinating and had a lot of swimming pools for the kids and adults. Our cottage were located near the adult pool that was 5ft. to 8ft. in height. My parents told me and my two sisters try not to come nearer in that area and stay in the kid's pool that is 3ft. only in height. And so, me, my sisters and my cousins that has the same age and height of ours were playing around and inside the kid's pool and were trying to have fun eventhough we only have a single, straight, plain, unemblished eight feet slide were you can see toddlers and other kids sliding accommodated with their parents. As the time passed and the sun is striking on us in the middle of the sky, we drew ourselves bored and not having fun with that single, straight, plain unemblished and eight feet long slide while my eldest brother and my other cousins were really having fun, tumbling, rumpling and toppling upside down on their very long, conjoined, and adulterated zigzag pool on the adult's side area. As I looked up on the high ladder were the tip of the vey long slide located I've come into a great decision where I knew that my parents would be very angry with me. I planned to slip on my parent's eyes and threw myself on that very top exciting experience. I 've encouraged and convinced my cousins and sisters to come with me and so they did. Unfortunately, at our surprise, when we came all through the that very top ladder, the operator of the slide won't allow us to slide down because he said that it is dangerous to us to try it because of our height and age. From that moment, my plans were doomed and I saw my mother climbing up on us to get us down and PUNISHED, while my father is waiting down on the adult's pool if ever we insisted to slide down. As my mother was about two meters towards us, and I am in between the slide's operator and my undying dream slide, I happened to passed the edge of the tip and slide all the way downon that very long, conjoined, and adulterated zigzag pool where I really have no idea if I was doing the right thing and where will I be ending downwards. I've closed my eyes for about 30 seconds and "Alas". I've reached the adult's pool and drowned myself 8feet below. Everybody was panicking because of what I've done and so I felt my father's arm trying to save and rescue me. It was only 5 seconds below the pool that I am rescued by my father and I didn't even cry or feel sorry for myself for what I've done but I was very fascinated and said, "Daddy isa pa!". The pool's crowd laughed and my cousins teased me but my mother were really really angry at me. Whahahahaha. After that incident of mine(smile), I wasn't allowed to bathe on any pool without my mom and dad accommodating me and so my most fascinating experienced had never happened again on that very day. Most of us when we were kids, we never try to slide on that kind of slide because we thought that we might drowned ourselves to death, but that's not true and thanks for my Dad.:)
Epilogue: When I reached my 12th age, whenever we were having our summer reunion, upon entering the resort's premises, me and my brother were the first and foremost to jump down and slide on the 5-8ft. adult pool wherever resort my family decided to have our outing.
when i was young mother and father told me that smoking cannabis is dangerous to our health
then when i was in my 1st year of college life.. i met a friend from my old dormitory.. he told me that smoking cannabis or cannabis is not dangerous nor its good because its a good medicine that can prevent cancer, stroke and other illness...
then i found out that my friend was true .. cannabis is not dangerous and its just a herb living in this earth that can cure the illness of the nation..
based from my own understanding, the allegory of the cave means that what we perceive is true is not always or is not actually true. one event in my life that i could give as an example could be when me and my siblings were still a child. when we were young, we really used to believe in Santa Claus because every Christmas.. we would be receiving these gifts when we wake up and a note attached to it says its from Santa... then there goes a time when both my older brother and sister said that Santa is not true and that it is only our mom who is giving as the gifts... But since i was still a child and is really fond os santa.. i rejected what they told me even though there's already an evidence-- a price tag on the toy... after a few years has passed,,, that's the only time that i have believed what my siblings have told me not only because i was already getting older but also i have found out for myself that it is really my mom who is responsible for the gifts...
When I was a still a kid I was a fan of the movie "Finding Nemo" especially the main characters Nemo and Marlin which is a Clown Fish and Dori a Paracanthurus Hepatus. I really like that movie but I didn't think that those 3 fishes where real, I thought they were just made up of imagination of the creator of that movie and there was I time that I was arguing with my older cousin about that, cause she thinks that it was real and to prove that she gave me a picture of those 3 fishes but I still didn't believe her. One day we went to Hongkong for vacation and when we are there we went to Ocean Park there in Hongkong and there I found out myself about those 3 fishes, I saw them in real life and they were exactly the same as I saw in the movie and my cousin was like "Oha oha! Anu ka ngayon?" and I just told her that she's right and I was really amaze that I saw them. That is my own experience of the Allegory of the cave. :)
ORENCE, CHRISTIAN BAL E. T31, BSCPE, TUESDAY & FRIDAY/3:00PM-5:00PM #31
MY INSIGHT: This "allegory of the cave" is a shadow play or portraying a shadow image with the used of different kinds of object that belongs unto the story or simply, image portraying. The physical image of an object is it's silhouette but when you look inside you can see the real him. Here I can based my experiences where in you should not judge a person on it's physical image but instead, look inside. Every day and night, there are many troubles came in us and passed by. "Came" in a sense of accepting or observing it and "Passed by", by solving each of them. Every minute counts and every second is important.
As I get out inside the womb of my mom was like walking through the door of life. Outside, you can see a lot of people who were happy, some having their problems and some were facing their challenges in their own lives. Giving birth to this young one is just the first day of him for another 365-days around the sun. As he grows up, he early suffered from pain when his both parent gets broke.
Many people do not know how miserable his life was. They can only see his physical appearance; the way he laugh, smile, communicate, etc. but did these people look what was really happening inside? No. 'Cause no one have the talent of reading what does a man's on mind or feelings. That's why a judge mental person can judge every person although they do not know who really they are.
Seat Number #04 CABRAS, Hannah Joyce R. / 2012-12575 I do have a lot stories relating with Plato’s allegory of the cave. But one of the major experiences I had was when I am just an elementary student. During my 3rd grade, I volunteer to perform a solo dance for United Nations Celebrations. But, unfortunately, no one believed even my ever favorite teacher that I dance because that time I was somewhat a nerdy student. All they knew is that I just volunteer and volunteer for academic standing at class. But actually that was one of my hidden talents. Up until I graduated at elementary level, I was not able to give a chance to have performed. During my high school days, that was the time that I was able to prove what I really got. When I was at my 2nd year level, I became a cheerleader of our batch and got 2nd place at an interschool cheer dance competition. We got a trophy and what I did, with all make-up and cheering outfit, I immediately went to my elementary teacher and prove to her what I can and even gave her a picture of me in action (dancing).
NEIL PATRICK JEI B. DIONISIO I am still experiencing this allegory of the cave until now. My mother always asking me to get something on her room. Those things that she want me to get is not easy to find because she is the only one who knows where that thing is.Last week she asked me again to get her earrings When I ask her where is the exact place, she is telling me exactly the location but when I looked on it I cannot find it. Then I ask her again couple times. The exact place, position and location; still I cannot find the earrings that she wanted to wear. Finally she went on her room and i go with her and voila! she get it on the same location, position and place where she told me. My mom is amazing hahaha.
In my personal experience I too had chains but they were not physical. They were mental and habitual, since I was raised within the church more than others, from Sunday services to the strict attendance to three times a week church choir practices, I felt that these things were needed for the religious part of my being. I believed that what I was being taught about morality and the non physical part of my being nearly depended on my religious following of these institutional teachings. The possible disappointment of my parents and church peers served as my mental chains that kept me from knowing anything outside of what was placed in front of me such as the shadows.
BERNARDO, DIVINE GRACE D. T31, BSECE, TUESDAY & FRIDAY/3:00PM-5:00PM #03
When I found out the meaning and the story behind the allegory of the cave, I suddenly remember that I also had an experience like this.
When I was in high school, Chess is one of the famous sport in our school, I was so curious why most of my classmates are playing chess, they always play that in our break time. Even in our house, my father and my older sister are fond of playing chess. So I ask them to teach me how to play that and some strategies. And they just said that it is hard to understand the game of chess and I will have a hard time learning it because it is a game of the brains. So what I did is I ask my classmates to teach me and when I learned the tricks, the moves and the strategies, I challenged my father to play with me. But I just lost several times and he said that I will never win over him and I said, “sooner or later I will defeat you”. I did not lose hope, I practice every day, and challenge my classmates. And I join the competition in our school. You will beat whoever joins to that, so meaning I will compete in all year level. And in that competition, I became the champion and received two gold medals. One is for being the representative in our batch and second for winning in all year level. And the school asks me if I can compete to other schools. And when I accepted the offer, I’ve reach to the district meet. And when my parents knew that, my father asks me for a game and I accepted it. And for the very first time, I have defeated him. He was shocked and double checks my piece that had mated his piece. And that was the time that he accepts that I can be a great chess player and defeat him.
No one believes that I can draw or sketch a cartoon character before. They always pull me down whenever I'm trying to prove to them that I can really draw. One time I seriously made a sketch of a cartoon character, as far as I remember it was Sandy of Spongebob squarepants that I draw. I let them watch while I'm making the sketch. When I finished the sketch, they were so amazed because my sketch was beautiful and also they told me that I'm somewhat good in drawing. After that moment they believed that I can draw or sketch in a good quality of drawing.
Based from my experience,since 4 years old I am always dancing and singing. I love it when I dance and sing. It completes my day. One day when I was in grade 3 my bestfriend and I decided to choreo a dance and we did it well. From our barangay I am well known as a dancer. They even don't know that I am also good in singing nor my bestfriend. Since then I always love to sing but many people said that it is better for you to dance than to sing. Deep inside of me I said that one day I will be a good singer and I will prove it you. Since grade 1 I joined the choir in our school. It will help me to improve my talent in singing and it helps. From time to time my singing talent is getting better.Even though there are people who do not still believe in my talent it is okay as long as I believe in myself that I can sing well better than the people trying to pull me down. I always sing in a debut,wedding,choir church, band of yfc, and etc. from then on many people believe in me. As soon as there are people who are trying to pull me down I am also that eager to prove to you that you are wrong.
Seeing as I don't have any experience that you might call "deep" or profound I'll just share this silly experience I had with my friend.
In one of our break times during high school we were discussing about games. I remembered one random fact and I felt compelled to say that to him. "Hey you know what? I just discovered Bridget is actually a guy." I said that with a nonchalant face and he immediately said: "That's BS man, shut up."
So to prove it to him I google-fu'd the website that had that information and gave him the URL. But still he gave the same reply.
I think it was more of him being a hardcore fan of Bridget, more like a crush really that made him unable to believe that statement.
For reference here's a link for the character in question: http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Bridget
My cousin and I believed that taking to strangers is embarrassing and humiliating because of one little called REJECTION.I was truly believed this all my life until that one day changed my view on it.
When I was in my shoe repairman's shop,we are having a funny and good conversation until a lady had come to the place.The strap of her flipflops has become broken and she asked the repairman to fix it.My friend and I continued the conversation and lady and I looked into each other's eyes.I think if that time "What if I start a conversation with her?". After that thought I started to ask her what happen to her flipflops and where is the place that it happen.Then I started to ask personal question like "What is your course?" and make fun of her course then she laughed and we laughed together. We talked and tell stories to each other and have FUN until we bid farewell.
Lesson: Be open to the possibilities and try do it.:))
I have a friend that has full of convincing power. He provoked me to take audition on our dance troupe on our previous school. He is the one to organized it for me. He keeps on saying that you should take this opportunity for you to develop your dancing skill and i will teach you. Then I take the audition and luckily, I Qualified. I can dance now. If you don't see that you have the potential in any ways, then you should face and try it because it might develop. Because you don't know that you can do it and others see you have the potential for it. CHEER UP!
When we were still young, me and my cousin thought that our old neighbor is very rude and mean because when we see him he always have that scary look on his face. So for quite some time we try to avoid him because we were scared. Then one day, the fiesta of our village, everybody was outside and enjoying the show and the food then suddenly someone tap me and my cousin on our shoulder. When we look back, we saw our old neighbor. He was smiling and greeted us "Happy Fiesta!". From then on, our impression on him that he was rude and scary changed.
During Christmas season, it is our tradition to do exchange gifts and to open our gifts from our tita and tito's and specially form santa claus. When i was still young, I thought santa claus was real because every christmas i received a gift from me. This was because i was good for the whole year, according to my parents. But one christmas, I 12 years old that time, I saw my mom packing the gift that was supposedly from santa claus. I asked her what was happening. She told me the truth, that Santa doesn't exist. They just want us to have a happy christmas. Since I learned their little secret, it was now my time to do the "secret" to my little cousins.
When i was young what i see myself in the future is to become a really really good drummer, but then i was afraid to try it because my cousins told me that my hands would have many bruises and would be injured if i pursue being a drummer myself. and then years have passed i am still longing to be a drummer, my mother without knowing my passion for music when i was young, started to enroll me to a dance class, and surprisingly i was very good at it to the point that one person from a dance school in hongkong talked to my mother and asked for permission to allow me to come with them and pursue my dancing skills. my mom gave them permission but then when she was already asking me, i came up with the sudden realization that it wasn't the path that i would want to take for me it was just a detour, thanks for the loud bass that came out through the speakers it reminded me what i truly liked. currently i am now a Multi-instrumentalist, playing for guitar for a band named tide/edit and still mastering my drum skills that i had naturally. good thing that i was awakened to pursue my real dream.
One of my experiences of the Allegory of Cave is when I was in Grade five. I’ve been transferred from section A to section B for unknown reason. I was too disappointed for transferring me to other section because all my friends are in the A section. The day after I have been transferred I didn’t go to school because I don’t want to be in the section B. I cried to my mama, but it didn’t help. The next day I go to school and after a week I make friends. The day pass the 1st grading grade is shown to us, I was shocked to see my name on the honor all list. I was the 4th placer. I was shocked on it because from grade two to four I don’t reach the honor roll list. And on the 4th grading I reach the 2nd place. I see that being on the section B is not that bad and helps me excel in class. And my grade six, on our graduation day I got the fifth honorable mention. I don’t see the reality of being transferred to other section because of the fear of being alone.
I experience allegory of cave when I was still on La Salle. I and my friends use to race all night of everyday. One night my friend asks if we want to party (drink). Some say ‘no’ some say ‘yes’. I said ‘yes’. On that day I and my parents have misunderstanding so I have (sama ng loob). So we drink all night. After that we go home. One said to me that I should not drink too much because I will still drive for me to go, but I insisted. And I get drunk. I was driving my way home and suddenly I hit a post. I was rushed on the hospital. I didn’t listen to what my friend says and end up on the hospital bed.
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Because of a restaurant I had experience the allegory of the cave. When I’m still in Intramuros my friends told me that there is a restaurant near in our dormitory. They told that the foods there were very delicious and affordable. To prove it, we went to the restaurant to try their menus. And my friends are correct. Their foods have great taste and the prices were really affordable.
VILLARANDA, PATRICK JOHN T.
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Me and my friends were afraid of what they call "Nuno sa Punso" when we were a child. They believed that in that pile of soil lives an "engkanto" called "Nuno". As a child, we were afraid to go near or examine what is inside that pile of soil.
One day I was watching television and the show was about incredible animals. There they featured about termites and where they live. I saw that the small hump of soil that we were afraid of was really a house built by termites.
So the following day, I told my friends about it but they did not believed me. I wanted to show them what's inside the "Punso" but they did not let me because they were to afraid that something bad might happen. Then after that, I decided to keep it to myself and just let them know themselves what it really is.
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My personal experience of "Allegory of the Cave" was:
It was one of the things that I would not forget about my life. It was the time when I started to doubt to pursue my first course in college. I was formerly a student of MIT(Mapua Institute of Technology) as a Civil Engineering student. Civil Engineering was my First choice besides Architecture and then when I was on my Third Year on college, I started to like some other course, I was doing a research about some other course that would possibly be much better in the future for me then comes the course ECE(Electronics and Communication Engineering), I was amazed on my research about this course, It made me realize that I could perhaps be an ECE rather than CE. But looking at my Standing, I'm on my Third year, Majoring days of my college life. I could pursue my CE course and finish it, but I really like ECE most. So I made a tough decision by choosing ECE instead of CE. At first, I was afraid that I had made a wrong decision, that maybe ECE is not for me. But now I'm an ECE student of FEU-East Asia College and I'm starting to like my life here in FEU-EAC and I'm really doing well.
Things really do came without you noticing that it already passes.
AVELLANOZA, QUEEN-JOANN J.
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My Own "Allegory of the Cave".
We have different insights about what the allegory of the cave is. I have many experiences that I may link regarding this topic but one outstanding experience I chose to share and I am really glad to say that I am very proud of it.
During my childhood years, my whole family clan is always planning of an outing or we call it "summer reunion". This is always happening every summer yearly until now. I was 8 years old when we held our summer vacation somewhere in Bagong Bayan Taguig. The resort was really fascinating and had a lot of swimming pools for the kids and adults. Our cottage were located near the adult pool that was 5ft. to 8ft. in height. My parents told me and my two sisters try not to come nearer in that area and stay in the kid's pool that is 3ft. only in height. And so, me, my sisters and my cousins that has the same age and height of ours were playing around and inside the kid's pool and were trying to have fun eventhough we only have a single, straight, plain, unemblished eight feet slide were you can see toddlers and other kids sliding accommodated with their parents.
As the time passed and the sun is striking on us in the middle of the sky, we drew ourselves bored and not having fun with that single, straight, plain unemblished and eight feet long slide while my eldest brother and my other cousins were really having fun, tumbling, rumpling and toppling upside down on their very long, conjoined, and adulterated zigzag pool on the adult's side area. As I looked up on the high ladder were the tip of the vey long slide located I've come into a great decision where I knew that my parents would be very angry with me. I planned to slip on my parent's eyes and threw myself on that very top exciting experience. I 've encouraged and convinced my cousins and sisters to come with me and so they did. Unfortunately, at our surprise, when we came all through the that very top ladder, the operator of the slide won't allow us to slide down because he said that it is dangerous to us to try it because of our height and age. From that moment, my plans were doomed and I saw my mother climbing up on us to get us down and PUNISHED, while my father is waiting down on the adult's pool if ever we insisted to slide down. As my mother was about two meters towards us, and I am in between the slide's operator and my undying dream slide, I happened to passed the edge of the tip and slide all the way downon that very long, conjoined, and adulterated zigzag pool where I really have no idea if I was doing the right thing and where will I be ending downwards. I've closed my eyes for about 30 seconds and "Alas". I've reached the adult's pool and drowned myself 8feet below. Everybody was panicking because of what I've done and so I felt my father's arm trying to save and rescue me. It was only 5 seconds below the pool that I am rescued by my father and I didn't even cry or feel sorry for myself for what I've done but I was very fascinated and said, "Daddy isa pa!". The pool's crowd laughed and my cousins teased me but my mother were really really angry at me. Whahahahaha.
After that incident of mine(smile), I wasn't allowed to bathe on any pool without my mom and dad accommodating me and so my most fascinating experienced had never happened again on that very day. Most of us when we were kids, we never try to slide on that kind of slide because we thought that we might drowned ourselves to death, but that's not true and thanks for my Dad.:)
Epilogue:
When I reached my 12th age, whenever we were having our summer reunion, upon entering the resort's premises, me and my brother were the first and foremost to jump down and slide on the 5-8ft. adult pool wherever resort my family decided to have our outing.
Jorell GredoNa B.
ReplyDeletei had my experience of the allegory of the cave..
when i was young mother and father told me that smoking cannabis is dangerous to our health
then when i was in my 1st year of college life.. i met a friend from my old dormitory.. he told me that smoking cannabis or cannabis is not dangerous nor its good because its a good medicine that can prevent cancer, stroke and other illness...
then i found out that my friend was true .. cannabis is not dangerous and its just a herb living in this earth that can cure the illness of the nation..
GUALLAR, MARIA GUADALUPE G.
ReplyDeletebased from my own understanding, the allegory of the cave means that what we perceive is true is not always or is not actually true. one event in my life that i could give as an example could be when me and my siblings were still a child. when we were young, we really used to believe in Santa Claus because every Christmas.. we would be receiving these gifts when we wake up and a note attached to it says its from Santa... then there goes a time when both my older brother and sister said that Santa is not true and that it is only our mom who is giving as the gifts... But since i was still a child and is really fond os santa.. i rejected what they told me even though there's already an evidence-- a price tag on the toy... after a few years has passed,,, that's the only time that i have believed what my siblings have told me not only because i was already getting older but also i have found out for myself that it is really my mom who is responsible for the gifts...
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MY OWN EXPERIENCE OF ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE
When I was a still a kid I was a fan of the movie "Finding Nemo" especially the main characters Nemo and Marlin which is a Clown Fish and Dori a Paracanthurus Hepatus. I really like that movie but I didn't think that those 3 fishes where real, I thought they were just made up of imagination of the creator of that movie and there was I time that I was arguing with my older cousin about that, cause she thinks that it was real and to prove that she gave me a picture of those 3 fishes but I still didn't believe her. One day we went to Hongkong for vacation and when we are there we went to Ocean Park there in Hongkong and there I found out myself about those 3 fishes, I saw them in real life and they were exactly the same as I saw in the movie and my cousin was like "Oha oha! Anu ka ngayon?" and I just told her that she's right and I was really amaze that I saw them.
That is my own experience of the Allegory of the cave. :)
ORENCE, CHRISTIAN BAL E.
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MY INSIGHT:
This "allegory of the cave" is a shadow play or portraying a shadow image with the used of different kinds of object that belongs unto the story or simply, image portraying. The physical image of an object is it's silhouette but when you look inside you can see the real him. Here I can based my experiences where in you should not judge a person on it's physical image but instead, look inside. Every day and night, there are many troubles came in us and passed by. "Came" in a sense of accepting or observing it and "Passed by", by solving each of them. Every minute counts and every second is important.
As I get out inside the womb of my mom was like walking through the door of life. Outside, you can see a lot of people who were happy, some having their problems and some were facing their challenges in their own lives. Giving birth to this young one is just the first day of him for another 365-days around the sun. As he grows up, he early suffered from pain when his both parent gets broke.
Many people do not know how miserable his life was. They can only see his physical appearance; the way he laugh, smile, communicate, etc. but did these people look what was really happening inside? No. 'Cause no one have the talent of reading what does a man's on mind or feelings. That's why a judge mental person can judge every person although they do not know who really they are.
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ReplyDeleteCABRAS, Hannah Joyce R. / 2012-12575
I do have a lot stories relating with Plato’s allegory of the cave. But one of the major experiences I had was when I am just an elementary student. During my 3rd grade, I volunteer to perform a solo dance for United Nations Celebrations. But, unfortunately, no one believed even my ever favorite teacher that I dance because that time I was somewhat a nerdy student. All they knew is that I just volunteer and volunteer for academic standing at class. But actually that was one of my hidden talents. Up until I graduated at elementary level, I was not able to give a chance to have performed. During my high school days, that was the time that I was able to prove what I really got. When I was at my 2nd year level, I became a cheerleader of our batch and got 2nd place at an interschool cheer dance competition. We got a trophy and what I did, with all make-up and cheering outfit, I immediately went to my elementary teacher and prove to her what I can and even gave her a picture of me in action (dancing).
NEIL PATRICK JEI B. DIONISIO
ReplyDeleteI am still experiencing this allegory of the cave until now. My mother always asking me to get something on her room. Those things that she want me to get is not easy to find because she is the only one who knows where that thing is.Last week she asked me again to get her earrings When I ask her where is the exact place, she is telling me exactly the location but when I looked on it I cannot find it. Then I ask her again couple times. The exact place, position and location; still I cannot find the earrings that she wanted to wear. Finally she went on her room and i go with her and voila! she get it on the same location, position and place where she told me. My mom is amazing hahaha.
DONATO, Renz Eduard J.
ReplyDeleteIn my personal experience I too had chains but they were not physical. They were mental and habitual, since I was raised within the church more than others, from Sunday services to the strict attendance to three times a week church choir practices, I felt that these things were needed for the religious part of my being. I believed that what I was being taught about morality and the non physical part of my being nearly depended on my religious following of these institutional teachings. The possible disappointment of my parents and church peers served as my mental chains that kept me from knowing anything outside of what was placed in front of me such as the shadows.
BERNARDO, DIVINE GRACE D.
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When I found out the meaning and the story behind the allegory of the cave, I suddenly remember that I also had an experience like this.
When I was in high school, Chess is one of the famous sport in our school, I was so curious why most of my classmates are playing chess, they always play that in our break time. Even in our house, my father and my older sister are fond of playing chess. So I ask them to teach me how to play that and some strategies. And they just said that it is hard to understand the game of chess and I will have a hard time learning it because it is a game of the brains. So what I did is I ask my classmates to teach me and when I learned the tricks, the moves and the strategies, I challenged my father to play with me. But I just lost several times and he said that I will never win over him and I said, “sooner or later I will defeat you”. I did not lose hope, I practice every day, and challenge my classmates. And I join the competition in our school. You will beat whoever joins to that, so meaning I will compete in all year level. And in that competition, I became the champion and received two gold medals. One is for being the representative in our batch and second for winning in all year level. And the school asks me if I can compete to other schools. And when I accepted the offer, I’ve reach to the district meet. And when my parents knew that, my father asks me for a game and I accepted it. And for the very first time, I have defeated him. He was shocked and double checks my piece that had mated his piece. And that was the time that he accepts that I can be a great chess player and defeat him.
LIZADA, HAZEL DANNIA A.
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No one believes that I can draw or sketch a cartoon character before. They always pull me down whenever I'm trying to prove to them that I can really draw. One time I seriously made a sketch of a cartoon character, as far as I remember it was Sandy of Spongebob squarepants that I draw. I let them watch while I'm making the sketch. When I finished the sketch, they were so amazed because my sketch was beautiful and also they told me that I'm somewhat good in drawing. After that moment they believed that I can draw or sketch in a good quality of drawing.
CORPUZ, CHRISSALYN M.
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Based from my experience,since 4 years old I am always dancing and singing. I love it when I dance and sing. It completes my day. One day when I was in grade 3 my bestfriend and I decided to choreo a dance and we did it well. From our barangay I am well known as a dancer. They even don't know that I am also good in singing nor my bestfriend. Since then I always love to sing but many people said that it is better for you to dance than to sing. Deep inside of me I said that one day I will be a good singer and I will prove it you. Since grade 1 I joined the choir in our school. It will help me to improve my talent in singing and it helps. From time to time my singing talent is getting better.Even though there are people who do not still believe in my talent it is okay as long as I believe in myself that I can sing well better than the people trying to pull me down. I always sing in a debut,wedding,choir church, band of yfc, and etc. from then on many people believe in me. As soon as there are people who are trying to pull me down I am also that eager to prove to you that you are wrong.
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ReplyDeleteSeeing as I don't have any experience that you might call "deep" or profound I'll just share this silly experience I had with my friend.
ReplyDeleteIn one of our break times during high school we were discussing about games. I remembered one random fact and I felt compelled to say that to him. "Hey you know what? I just discovered Bridget is actually a guy." I said that with a nonchalant face and he immediately said: "That's BS man, shut up."
So to prove it to him I google-fu'd the website that had that information and gave him the URL. But still he gave the same reply.
I think it was more of him being a hardcore fan of Bridget, more like a crush really that made him unable to believe that statement.
For reference here's a link for the character in question:
http://guilty-gear.wikia.com/wiki/Bridget
Cheers,
Ein (Kevin Rheiniel Salvador)
July 23, 2012 9:32 AM
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My cousin and I believed that taking to strangers is embarrassing and humiliating because of one little called REJECTION.I was truly believed this all my life until that one day changed my view on it.
When I was in my shoe repairman's shop,we are having a funny and good conversation until a lady had come to the place.The strap of her flipflops has become broken and she asked the repairman to fix it.My friend and I continued the conversation and lady and I looked into each other's eyes.I think if that time "What if I start a conversation with her?". After that thought I started to ask her what happen to her flipflops and where is the place that it happen.Then I started to ask personal question like "What is your course?" and make fun of her course then she laughed and we laughed together. We talked and tell stories to each other and have FUN until we bid farewell.
Lesson: Be open to the possibilities and try do it.:))
#26, Mamauag, Adrian A.
ReplyDeleteI have a friend that has full of convincing power. He provoked me to take audition on our dance troupe on our previous school. He is the one to organized it for me. He keeps on saying that you should take this opportunity for you to develop your dancing skill and i will teach you. Then I take the audition and luckily, I Qualified. I can dance now. If you don't see that you have the potential in any ways, then you should face and try it because it might develop. Because you don't know that you can do it and others see you have the potential for it. CHEER UP!
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When we were still young, me and my cousin thought that our old neighbor is very rude and mean because when we see him he always have that scary look on his face. So for quite some time we try to avoid him because we were scared. Then one day, the fiesta of our village, everybody was outside and enjoying the show and the food then suddenly someone tap me and my cousin on our shoulder. When we look back, we saw our old neighbor. He was smiling and greeted us "Happy Fiesta!". From then on, our impression on him that he was rude and scary changed.
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During Christmas season, it is our tradition to do exchange gifts and to open our gifts from our tita and tito's and specially form santa claus. When i was still young, I thought santa claus was real because every christmas i received a gift from me. This was because i was good for the whole year, according to my parents. But one christmas, I 12 years old that time, I saw my mom packing the gift that was supposedly from santa claus. I asked her what was happening. She told me the truth, that Santa doesn't exist. They just want us to have a happy christmas. Since I learned their little secret, it was now my time to do the "secret" to my little cousins.
Villamayor, Nelson G.
ReplyDeleteWhen i was young what i see myself in the future is to become a really really good drummer, but then i was afraid to try it because my cousins told me that my hands would have many bruises and would be injured if i pursue being a drummer myself. and then years have passed i am still longing to be a drummer, my mother without knowing my passion for music when i was young, started to enroll me to a dance class, and surprisingly i was very good at it to the point that one person from a dance school in hongkong talked to my mother and asked for permission to allow me to come with them and pursue my dancing skills.
my mom gave them permission but then when she was already asking me, i came up with the sudden realization that it wasn't the path that i would want to take for me it was just a detour, thanks for the loud bass that came out through the speakers it reminded me what i truly liked. currently i am now a Multi-instrumentalist, playing for guitar for a band named tide/edit and still mastering my drum skills that i had naturally. good thing that i was awakened to pursue my real dream.
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One of my experiences of the Allegory of Cave is when I was in Grade five. I’ve been transferred from section A to section B for unknown reason. I was too disappointed for transferring me to other section because all my friends are in the A section. The day after I have been transferred I didn’t go to school because I don’t want to be in the section B. I cried to my mama, but it didn’t help. The next day I go to school and after a week I make friends. The day pass the 1st grading grade is shown to us, I was shocked to see my name on the honor all list. I was the 4th placer. I was shocked on it because from grade two to four I don’t reach the honor roll list. And on the 4th grading I reach the 2nd place. I see that being on the section B is not that bad and helps me excel in class. And my grade six, on our graduation day I got the fifth honorable mention. I don’t see the reality of being transferred to other section because of the fear of being alone.
Ali Abdurasad #1
ReplyDeleteI experience allegory of cave when I was still on La Salle. I and my friends use to race all night of everyday. One night my friend asks if we want to party (drink). Some say ‘no’ some say ‘yes’. I said ‘yes’. On that day I and my parents have misunderstanding so I have (sama ng loob). So we drink all night. After that we go home. One said to me that I should not drink too much because I will still drive for me to go, but I insisted. And I get drunk. I was driving my way home and suddenly I hit a post. I was rushed on the hospital. I didn’t listen to what my friend says and end up on the hospital bed.