FreeThink: Reflections, Criticisms and Emotion

Secondary Reflection on Love and Self Jerone Avel S. Cansino, M.A.Ed Palawan State University- Bataraza Campus jcansinopsu@gmail.com Introduction Love and self were seen as two platonic elements. There are notions that love is the arriving into the mental and emotional state of selflessness. It was said that if you love you forget yourself and you give it to its object (the object of love). In this analysis I bluntly and immediately reject this notion. What I believe about love is summarized into the statements below. (1) Love is not selflessness, in fact it is full of self. (2) Love is self, you cannot love without having the rudimentary concept of self. (3) Love needs to be selfish but it does not end there because it is a continuous process (4) Love has a subject and an object, then the highest manifestation of love is found on objects that are farthest from the subject. The discussion of this analysis would focus on debunking the common assumption that love is not...

So its October. Now we have been trapped in the middle of office politics. Everything seems to be occurring and thing will go its dangerous twists and turns. I would not know what will happen next. All I know is that I am ready to receive what is coming. Of all these there is promise and there is a chance for a better tomorrow. We all are not afraid. We are doing the right thing and we will do whatever it take to make everything better. I am being created in this. It gives me strength. It prepares me for a better chance of receiving whichever end would it result.

It is hard to dream because nobody will believe you could. It is hard to set things up because there will be people that would find pulling you down is their duty. People will say they love you but only some of them are true. If there is a goal there is only one rule. Strike hard pursue it until it falls in your hand. Enjoy the process make friends and stay humble.

What is love? What is not love? What are the elements of love and what are not? Is love really an illusion? Is love really real? Is love romance? Does love bring peace? How could a word with with no exact definition bag us and affect us to the point of ruining our selves or in the same manner could live us to higher sense of self actualization? The easiest questions are the hardest to answer. It is a basic principle in communication that we should never use words that we do not fully understand. But our society nowadays are obsessed with it? Have they understood it already or they have thought they had. This phenomenon had been the subject of Philosophical inquiry over the years but do we really understand its essence and nature? Is love really an emotion being defined by an organ located just on the meeting place of our skull and spinal cord? Then if love is a sensation the moment we lost our ability to feel love is gone. If it is an emotion it is therefore nothin...

This song was requested from me by an unfortunate person who is living an unfortunate life. I want your happiness. I wish your success in what you do. The lyrics is mine but the title is hers. I What a treasure have I found What a mystery it abounds When I see your face When I hear your voice Everything fades away II What a beauty it displays To always see it oh I pray When I hold your hand and with you I stand Everything fades away Chorus. So stay with me So be my Life Hold me close to be with you This will I always choose (Chorus 2x) Refrain Let us stop pretending let us be glad let us be ourselves clad in the power of love III What a victory have I won What I might that have I shown When I see you smile when I feel your touch Everything fades away chorus

Comparison is both an angel and a devil. It was 2015 when I opted out of PSU and chose the Department of Education. Now I'm back in the academe. More experienced, seasoned and forged. Many would raise their eyebrows. Many would not understand why I would dump such a secured tenure for something that is still immaterial. I did all this because of the following reasons: 1. Life is short . In the department of Education it is not secret that I hate the job. I hate the paper works I hate the level of instruction in which I have committed myself. I hate the fact that I am specializing in Social Science yet I have a very little opportunity to practice it. Life is shot for me to do the things I want to do, to be the man I want to be, to the best in what I do. Life is so short for me to move beyond my limitations. Life is short to be spent on things that is alienating. I am not investing my for myself just to compete for something that I do not really aim. Life is too short to...

We are living in the 21st Century. Being a millenial myself, I grew up in a culture when I think that knowledge is more advanced that ever. Science is booming, discoveries, technologies and everything under the sun seems to be so easy.  Communication? There are the mobile phones, internet, media. Information is transmitted fast and who knows what will happen next.  Transportation? Cars, ships, airplanes, supercars, cheap cars, automatic cars, self drive cars, solar powered cars, space rockets.   Science? We have discovered new, elements, new medicines, new diseases, new treatments. Politics? They say we are living in the most  peaceful era of the world history. We are living the utopia of democracy, the blessings of liberty, human rights, gay rights, minority rights and everything that seems to be good.  They say that it is a manifestation of progress. If I were to assess the present society in the light of the past events and what ...