Greetings!
Every day, we are faced with decisions. Big and small as an internal war is waged between ego and identity, pleasure and restraint,instant gratification and self discipline. Never the less, the key to walking the tightrope is never losing the enthusiasm of what you are doing.
I would like to share this with everyone. I know of a carpenter. One day, he went through the things he had and saw pieces of wood lying around. He thought he could make something productive and said, “I’ll make a ladder out of all of you!” After that, he took a saw, a hammer, some nails and began the project.
He cut two long pieces into the same size that would help the ladder stand. He then cut several short pieces into the same length that served as the steps to the top. Some pieces were too short so he put together those pieces of wood to match the other steps equally. When everything was ready, he nailed all the pieces together. They made a strong ladder and that ladder was leaned against a wall.
The carpenter said that they were put there to help people get over that wall. One by one, many were granted over the wall and to a grassy road that led to somewhere. Time passed but some steps got broken, fell off the ladder and got lost. The carpenter then went looking for them. When he found the pieces, he nailed them back to the ladder and it again served its purpose.
I will remind you of the Aklan Press Club’s vision of becoming an organization of Dignified Journalists, providing reliable information to instruct, educate and entertain to effect development and progress in the community. I repeat ‘dignified journalists’. We are supposed to stand with integrity and be driven by the goal of actually helping the society progress. We are given these skills and opportunity to affect people so we can uphold what is true and just.
The ladder that the carpenter made was the Aklan Press Club. My friends, we are all pieces of wood. The carpenter just picks us up when he wants to use us for a greater purpose. We, the ladder of the society help it up to development and leads it to a road that lead to a community that barely has greed and does not believe that money makes the world go round. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. What we will give is service and support to all the good people who work to improve the lives not only of their selves. Money does not make the world go round, nor does power, but gravity and a lesson from science.
Sometimes, people do get blinded by what others think of them and stop doing the right thing. All of us get tempted by a shiny block of gold. We may not realize this but we all have the potential of being great. We just have to make good of what we have within us and decide to want to help the nation rise.
The world is not all bad, a lot of us just think that because of what we see in mass media. It barely portrays all the good things that happen and all the good things that are possible. Evil prevails when a few good men and women do nothing. The good men and women are not few, they are many. We will not do nothing. Being the catalyst of change for the better is not easy but it will only become harder if one continues to think of it as difficult. We were not made to bring anyone down. We are alive so that we can strive to bring out all the good in the world.
God bless us all and good evening.
(Inaugural speech delivered by Ms. Megs Lunn, as the newly installed 1st lady president of APCI last 10th Induction ceremony July 29, 2011 at Hernani’s Mix and Match, Kalibo, Aklan)/TE
Every day, we are faced with decisions. Big and small as an internal war is waged between ego and identity, pleasure and restraint,instant gratification and self discipline. Never the less, the key to walking the tightrope is never losing the enthusiasm of what you are doing.
I would like to share this with everyone. I know of a carpenter. One day, he went through the things he had and saw pieces of wood lying around. He thought he could make something productive and said, “I’ll make a ladder out of all of you!” After that, he took a saw, a hammer, some nails and began the project.
He cut two long pieces into the same size that would help the ladder stand. He then cut several short pieces into the same length that served as the steps to the top. Some pieces were too short so he put together those pieces of wood to match the other steps equally. When everything was ready, he nailed all the pieces together. They made a strong ladder and that ladder was leaned against a wall.
The carpenter said that they were put there to help people get over that wall. One by one, many were granted over the wall and to a grassy road that led to somewhere. Time passed but some steps got broken, fell off the ladder and got lost. The carpenter then went looking for them. When he found the pieces, he nailed them back to the ladder and it again served its purpose.
I will remind you of the Aklan Press Club’s vision of becoming an organization of Dignified Journalists, providing reliable information to instruct, educate and entertain to effect development and progress in the community. I repeat ‘dignified journalists’. We are supposed to stand with integrity and be driven by the goal of actually helping the society progress. We are given these skills and opportunity to affect people so we can uphold what is true and just.
The ladder that the carpenter made was the Aklan Press Club. My friends, we are all pieces of wood. The carpenter just picks us up when he wants to use us for a greater purpose. We, the ladder of the society help it up to development and leads it to a road that lead to a community that barely has greed and does not believe that money makes the world go round. We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give. What we will give is service and support to all the good people who work to improve the lives not only of their selves. Money does not make the world go round, nor does power, but gravity and a lesson from science.
Sometimes, people do get blinded by what others think of them and stop doing the right thing. All of us get tempted by a shiny block of gold. We may not realize this but we all have the potential of being great. We just have to make good of what we have within us and decide to want to help the nation rise.
The world is not all bad, a lot of us just think that because of what we see in mass media. It barely portrays all the good things that happen and all the good things that are possible. Evil prevails when a few good men and women do nothing. The good men and women are not few, they are many. We will not do nothing. Being the catalyst of change for the better is not easy but it will only become harder if one continues to think of it as difficult. We were not made to bring anyone down. We are alive so that we can strive to bring out all the good in the world.
God bless us all and good evening.
(Inaugural speech delivered by Ms. Megs Lunn, as the newly installed 1st lady president of APCI last 10th Induction ceremony July 29, 2011 at Hernani’s Mix and Match, Kalibo, Aklan)/TE
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