An illustrious Chinese Philosopher said that, “You must be willing to go where you have never been, to create something you never had.” Why did those famous scientists and philosophers were able to come up with new thoughts either scholastic or simply life- enriching lessons?  Isn’t it that they were able to think outside of the box or thinking beyond the limits?

Our imagination is a horizon, it is boundless. Instead of thinking things that could make one’s life miserable, why should not utilize it to for betterment? Isn’t it that it is a better perspective of using this horizon?

There are times in life that we close ourselves in a certain framework that we tend to refuse a certain one. “Di ko sina ahhh, sang una amo malang ni, mayo man.” This is one of the many lines that we usually heard especially from our elders. There mindset are already set to what they used to do or practice even you offer still a better one. In doing things and responsibilities in life, we follow what is given to us by our superiors, people to whom we give our love , respect or we idolized but unknowingly this practice disparage our own capacity to think and to use our own senses and faculties, talents and abilities that could offer a better product to what we are aiming.

In our old folks, we usually heard from them that they are so many ways of killing a cat. Yes, it’s true and this is a true example of saying that anything goes, is not selfishness but scientific. I strongly believe that it is more scientific if we tend to follow the structure of “come what may” idea, not a “pabaya” one but open to all possibilities, exhausting all potentials of potentialities. In this kind of paradigm, we are more open- minded to all other changes and results and willing to accept criticisms for a deeper growth, and this is a better characteristic of being scientific. If the basis of being scientific is just a procedure, why limit yourselves for a narrow one. Isn’t it that it is irony to think that we could more if we don’t just settle in the field of mediocrity that oftentimes become the core reason of a limitless world?  Life is boundless field of an endless genesis. Exhaust it!

In the milieu of seminary formation, priest formators or even a brother seminarian would instill in us the power of courage because we are not yet pushing ourselves and placing it beyond the limits. I is a great possibility always that we think, that we are bound to a certain degree but the reversal truth is that, we could do a lot, a good one, a better one and the best one! Sometimes seminarians tend to refuse or get rid of what is being asked from them because it is what that was imbibed to them in the context of seminary formation. Life in the seminary is not just what is being imposed but a life that is full of adventure, discoveries and implications that surely will mold us to become a better person, a better Christian.

It is not selfishness if we pursue our own perspective beyond a limitless degree because it is a better approach to prove that we were also able to impart it to other people of the same level of consciousness that stabilizes the world of imagination. It is in a more selfish motivation in pat our own selves if we let what other people used to think of us revolve our world in that kind of paradigm. It is more self- denying to our part if we square it to a mindset that is not falsifiable so to say.

Anything goes, “Come what may”, is not a selfish paradigm but a deeper understanding of one’s life and capacity to extend a life open to what it offers, what it drives you and a life full of unending horizon, a field that never stops. It would never put into its end unless momentarily placed in the moment of death. Death is the end of all existent being.

A famous line from a song says, “As long as the stars shine down from the heaven, as long as the rivers run to the sea, I’ll never get over you, getting over me.” This line is an expression of life is an unending travel, a pilgrimage that opens a lot of chances to be done, to be implied and to embrace.

“Come what may ahh…because anything goes! Sapere Aude!




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