Think about it
‘There can be no eternity if you choose not to live today’
By Jun Velasco
THIS should be a sequel to our column with the head “Seize the day” a couple of weeks back.
Last Wednesday evening at our Rotary Club’s turnover, as we transferred the presidential mantle to Henry Asistin, who is a native of Alaminos City, we shared our audience some nuggets we now wish to share with you, dear readers, too.
The turnover had our Congressman-elect Pol Bataoil, club director, as the guest of honor and speaker. He just planed in from a one-week US trip, and the powwow was our way of feting a fellow Rotarian after scoring a landslide victory in the May l0 polls.
He was a knockout as he showed a videotape of what he did in the campaign trail.
In our valedictory, we said: “We describe this turnover as a new day, an advent of new hope.
We have just elected a new leader of the nation – Senator Noynoy Aquino. Whatever the losers say, we believe that the Precinct Count Optical System (PCOS) did a good job.
Let’s go back to hope. We feel hope is in the air. The country has just posted a growth rate of 7-point plus, and we see streams of good guys and gals who deserve the public trust coming to the front.
In our club are many jewels with civic leadership. We continue to count on them to give life and meaning to Rotary’s tenets of truth, fairness, friendship, understanding and our communities’ uplift.
We are grateful to those who have unselfishly given their time, talent and resources to better lives, even while we implore the others to catch up.
We only have one life to live, we should live it fully. You will never live if you spend your life looking for the meaning of life.
There’s still a lot that we can do to build a better world and improve ourselves. Let’s not tarry nor tire, give those at the backseat some life-rejuvenating pills about this philosophy that we are our brother’s keeper.
Those who are out front in service will tell you how it feels to be in this life-giving philosophy. Because we love you, we want you to be with us and share a morsel or two on brotherly love.
The greatest leaders of humankind — Jesus, Jose Rizal, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, to name a few — have beaten the path for all of us, like what they did for Paul Harris.
Let’s rekindle the fine threads of fraternal love and compassion for others while we usher in another day of hope, another working together and another loving one another.
Someone said, let us treat each day as a wonderful gift, that’s why we call it present.
The price of anything, it’s said, is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Let’s not forget to crack jokes, just as tension and worry can be hazardous to your health — humor can be hazardous to your illness.
We should be able to leave this life without an ounce of talent left. We should use up everything we’ve been given. We can’t take it with us.
Lastly, let us be inspired by this great quote, “teamwork is the catalyst that yields excellence from shared strengths.”
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