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On the week of February 8, 2010 my Theo 131 groupmates and I had a mission. It was to give out as many ?chastity bands? as possible and get as many ?commitments? in our website as we could. My group was assigned to promote awareness about the Catholic Church?s stand on pre-marital sex and artificial birth control and WHY this was the Church?s stand.
To do this we set up a promo board in school with our website?s name and link. Then we placed standees on the tables in the cafeteria, again with a link to our website. However the real work was just about to begin.
Armed with a bag full of homemade chastity bands, my 5 group mates and I set off into the campus and started approaching people. ?Hi would you like to be chaste??, ?It?s Pro-Life month! Want a wristband??, ?Don?t chase, be chaste! Free chastity bands!? were some of the more common statements one would hear from us. We spent most of our free time in school handing out wristbands and encouraging people to visit our website.
At home we would make our status messages on YM the link to our website. On facebook we posted the same link on all our friends? walls. We even sent out group messages to our yahoo groups inviting people to visit our website.
By the end of the week we had given out all of the chastity wristbands that we made and in turn received a considerable number of replies from our commitment page in our website. No one refused a chastity band but some persons sent us negative remarks from our website. However it was very heartwarming to discover that the positive comments far outnumbered the negative ones. Also a lot of people sent in their commitments to stay chaste until marriage and to not use artificial birth control methods.
When we were first assigned this project my group and I thought it would be an impossible task or at the very least a really big hassle. How were we supposed to tell our peers not to have sex until they were married? Well the project turned out to be a success and the response we got was overwhelmingly positive. On top of that my group and I really had a lot of fun setting up a website and making chastity bands and posters. At the end of the day I would say mission accomplished. Don?t you think?
Tagpuan is a song about waiting for God's perfect timing when it comes to finding true love. I wrote it as a love letter to my future boyfriend, and hopefully husband, knowing that it's just a matter of time before he actually comes into my life. In the song, I tell him that I'm certain that while I am patiently waiting and praying to God for him, I know that he is also doing the same thing while he is searching for me. I assure him that I am being faithful to him and am loving him even while I'm single by living in purity and having a vision of how I would want our future love life to be.
Also, this song serves as a reminder for singles like myself that it is possible to have peace and joy in one's heart even while we're alone. Because though the waiting could take awhile, and though it could get really hard sometimes, once we're finally with God's best, all the waiting would be worth it.
"Naghihintay, naniniwala, Ang puso ay maligaya at payapa, Panatag and loob kahit ngayo'y nag-iisa Pagdating ng araw, kapiling na kita..."
Here's the lyrics. Hope you enjoy :)
TAGPUAN by ABBY ASISTIO
NAGHIHINTAY PARIN TAYO'Y MAGKATAGPO IKA'Y MAMAHALIN, IBIBIGAY AKING PUSO PARA LAMANG SAYO, IAALAY BUHAY KO SAGOT SA AKING PANALANGIN AKO'Y MAGING IYO'T IKAW AY SA AKIN
KINALIMUTAN ANG LAHAT NG PAGAALINLANGAN PAGKAT AKO'Y NANINIWALANG IKAW AY NARIYAN NAGDARASAL KA RIN, HINAHANAP MO AKO MUNDO NATI'Y MAGBABAGO SA ORAS NA MALAMAN KO'T MALAMAN MONG ITINAKDANG MAGING TAYO
*NANINIWALANG DARATING KA RIN PAGSASAMAHIN NG TADHANA MAKAKAPILING, AKING MAMAHALIN IKAW LANG AT AKO HABAMBUHAY LAHAT PARA SAYO AY IAALAY SA ATING TAGPUAN...
PINAPANGAKO NA MAGIGING TAPAT AT TOTOO MAAASAHAN MONG KARAMAY MAGTITIWALA SAYO KAKAYANIN ANG LAHAT BASTA'T KASAMA LANG KITA IPAPAMALAS NA KAILANGAN KO AY TANGING IKAW MAGPAKAILAN PA MAN LUBOS NA PAGIBIG SAYO LAMANG ILALAAN
Repeat *
NAGHIHINTAY, NANINIWALA ANG PUSO AY MALIGAYA AT PAYAPA PANATAG ANG LOOB KAHIT NGAYO'Y NAGIISA PAGDATING NG ARAW KAPILING NA KITA
DARATING KA RIN PAGSASAMAHIN NG TADHANA MAKAKAPILING, AKING MAMAHALIN IKAW LANG AT AKO HABAMBUHAY LAHAT PARA SAYO AY IAALAY SA ATING TAGPUAN...
I've always thought women to be the stronger sex. Of course, this did not arise from any provocation that men were in fact the ones stronger, but a belief I've held ever since. We go through so much in life, from the awkward changes in puberty, to being hypersensitive about the world around us as we grow older. There's just so much to deal with, that our minds remain imprinted with vivid memories of what was, and an endless introspection of what is yet to happen.
To be born in today's world is to be anything you want to be, because you are granted the liberty of the times. And yet, a reason for the misery women feel at the hands of men..is their very selves. They allow for the pain to come, if only to receive a fraction of the affection they so crave for so much from the people they love.
In interviewing Mrs. Lora Tan-Garcia, author of the inspirational book "I Keep Love Real", she imparts insights as to what girls really want from relationships: to love and be loved. Pleasure is not derived from a night's satisfaction of love-making, but the feeling of acceptance and security from the person you share your self, your world, to. The heart of this relationship is built on a different kind of experience altogether, one that surpasses physical intimacy.
Jason Evert, a Catholic public speaker who annually speaks to students in the US about keeping chaste, has this to say about girls today:?Sometimes, girls are so busy trying to turn a guy?s head that they forget they have the ability to turn a guy?s heart.?
We compromise ourselves, giving up our best years to receive half-baked effort from the other end of the line. We make ourselves so available that we allow them to treat us less than what is expected. Despite our efforts, we arouse only desire, and not evoke feelings of real love.
As the line goes, what makes you different makes you beautiful. Be different, say 'no'! Don't give yourself right away, let him work for it because YOU ARE WORTH IT. You'll find that through waiting for the right person, you'll be building up a relationship as solid as the church you'll get married in. Now, what could be more beautiful than that?
Let me tell you that my internship at I Keep Love Real has been, in the simplest words, a really cool experience. Knowing even a fraction of the gravity of love through this campaign has opened my mind to how much of it is such a great, great force in this world. Love is a mystery worth pursuing, yet you never want to uncover its depths because what makes it impossible to understand is what makes it worth pursuing in the first place. We can never really have a universal definition for love, but we can understand what it brings us.
And this is done through the IKLR campaign. Love, while subjective to each of us, becomes concretized through the relationships which bind and keep us afloat in this world. With the relationships we have, we begin to understand what love means to us, personally. Essentially, the kind of love IKLR wants for us to experience is the driving force that keeps us going in the right direction until we meet our other half, that person we're to spend the rest of our lives with.
I invite you to be part of the I Keep Love Real Team. Share your insights to teens everywhere and make a difference in their lives.
As John Lennon said, "Love is real, real is love." :)
We yearn for long and lasting love. It seems to be in our nature, to be on the look-out for The One - that one person with whom we'd share real love. We go on numerous dates, trying to figure out which of those would work out. Give it more or less six dates and you're probably ready to venture into a deeper relationship with your significant other. Emotions get stronger and desires are amplified.
"If you love me, you'll do this for me. You'll have sex with me." Love? Are you sure it's real love? You're young. Breaking up, these days, isn't something new. We hear of break-ups everywhere -- from our own friends, and even in our own lives. What if, by chance, you and your significant other encounters a terrible problem that leads to tremendous amounts of fighting and misunderstanding. What probably seemed like "real" love then, appears like a total lie now.
Ms. Lora Garcia's book, I Keep Love Real, emphasizes the concept of chastity in our lives. Imagine having giving your body to the person who broke your heart, to the person who didn't fight for your relationship to survive, and to the person who has taken full advantage of your susceptibility to do anything for the sake of love. Then here comes this completely wonderful person, who simply sweeps you off your feet and shares with you, real and genuine love. This person, obviously different from all the others you've dated, proposes to marry you and vows to live forever and ever with you.
Won't you have this guilt feeling in your gut, stubborn and solid, haunting you like crazy?
Before you go into pre-marital sex, think of your future husband or wife. According to Ms. Lora, it's like cheating in advance. Sure, you might say you're too young to be thinking about marriage, but don't you think you're also too young to be cheating on your life-partner? What would you feel if your future husband or wife has been taken advantage of, by some jerk or slut? Wouldn't you feel helpless and weak, that you weren't able to do anything to protect him or her in that situation?
Let this be a helpful reminder, every time the call for sex comes. You have a choice and no one has to force you to do anything. Your decisions today would be reflected on whatever would happen tomorrow, and even in the future.
Allow me to wrap this entry up by inviting YOU to become a future blogger for I Keep Love Real. This experience has been simply amazing, and I'm extremely glad for having accepted this duty. Personal experiences and experiences from my friends have been my inspiration in doing this. As I typed in entries, I imagined talking to my own kabarkadas, giving them advice as I pat their backs for comfort. All of us are sick and tired of crying and aching, but we must never give up. Love surpasses everything. Though imperfect, the power of real love succeeds every problem, every heartbreak and every heart ache. I invite you to become a future blogger for IKLR. I invite you to share your insights, your thoughts, in the hope of lifting the spirits of teens everywhere.
I came across my old high school stuff the other day. Beneath my bookshelf, I found back issues of the school paper, prized essays, scrapbook projects, and dilapidated notebooks crammed with colorful post-its, old photos, letters, and whatnot. It was a nostalgic experience seeing even a fraction of the things which reminded me about pre-college life.
Call me the anti-drama queen, but I wasn't hit by an overwhelming sense of sadness. It wasn't as if I hated high school and wanted to forget it the moment I marched out of the auditorium, but it was just one of those moments wherein you find something you've totally forgotten about (maybe an old movie you haven't watched in ages) and find that it still has that fascinating quality which charmed you the first time you saw it.
In retrospect, I was pretty happy come graduation day. There were no tears, save for the ones from laughing too much with my friends during the ceremony. For my 17-year-old self, it was the paradigm of liberation, the front exit to oppressive homework and sadistic teachers! Surely it wasn't the end of the line, but the beginning of a whole new chapter of my life.
Graduation doesn't mean goodbye, but a mere 'goodbye for now'. For some, graduation is dreaded for it equates to a slowdown in relationships, such that they become victims of the high school fix. Here, they trap themselves in a replay of memories continuously played even after everyone has left the theatre.
Don't be afraid to let go of high school, because I assure you--there is a much bigger world out there, and you'll discover that there will be much to see and learn from it. It's a whole new life--a whole new adventure! You'll know more about yourself and meet a lot of new people, consequently forming new relationships. Just be ready for the changes that will come your way, because these will help you mature and be a better version of yourself.
As mentioned, graduation isn't goodbye or the end.. It's only the beginning of greater experiences in life! Good luck and congratulations, graduates of 2009! :)
The book, I Keep Love Real, by Lora Garcia invites to be true ourselves and really understand the essence of sex through the form of chastity and purity. She says, chastity and purity isn?t an archaic idea, it actually is something that is cool. It can be cool again, because the benefits of it are cool. And before you starting switching blog sites since sex is so taboo and we treat it as something private and not necessarily open for discussion ? you thought wrong. Because of this notion, sex becomes such a mystery that most of us fall trap to the many consequences it fails to mention when you?re in that moment. That moment, that I must say, could truly be escapable, if we only knew?
But considering we don?t ? chastity isn?t about what we give or what we don?t give but who we give it to and meaning we attach to the idea of sex when we regard it. Lora says that we, the teens of today, aren?t so different from the teens of yesteryear. We are, however, suffering from a ?vision problem?. And she sums it up with this: ?I don?t think we understand what we are waiting for. What are the benefits if we wait? What is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow? Teens have the capacity to wait. Present it to them in a reasonable and non-threatening way. These reasons are weak, lacking in water, those ?Wag kang magssex kasi mabubuntis ka? reasons. We have access to more information nowadays. We are not a generation of people that will take everything sitting down, that we will just accept things. We have to be creative in trying to send the message across. The message is good. It?s true. That has never changed?but what has to change is the method.?
And we?ve heard it over and OVER again that it gets so sick we learn to tune it out. ?Sex ? everyone does it ? so why can?t I?? ? we keep telling ourselves. The book doesn?t close the idea that it won?t be able to touch on every audience or to inspire them to think of chastity in a new light. But it will directly or indirectly make us think, which the focal aim of Lora Garcia ? to think about sex and what we?re really waiting for. What we?re waiting for? You?ll find out when you truly understand and respect yourself and your sexuality.
Let us not sell ourselves short. We are possibly led to wrong perspectives but at the end of the day, we all want respect. Chastity and purity in its greater essence gives justice to that. It allows us to experience the guilt-free pleasure of loving.
As I bid farewell to writing weekly blogs *sobs*? I must say this has been a great experience. I invite you to become future bloggers of the new love revolution! There is so much to learn with topics we talk about weekly and the videos we watch just so we can make sense of the lessons we impart to you guys. If there?s one thing I learned and have reasserted to myself is that I respect life and respect love. I see it as something so precious that when I find that great love, it will be divine. I hope you realize the beauty of love and why you guys, people capable of love, are truly so lucky to experience such a once-in-a-lifetime experience. I?ve said it a million times and I will say it again? NEVER rely on fairytale-sweeping love but a love that is truly sustainable and sincere of its intention. Keeping love real is not about the physical appearance as I discussed in the Twilight saga, but understanding and accepting the entirety of ourselves and the person we?re with.
Kudos to love and the beauty it brings because what is life without it? We are always yearning for this because it never fails to deliver. Hurt, joy, pain ? whatever it is, it?s amazing and we only grow to know so much. Everyday is day for love, may you cherish it as I do. When I?m with my friends, family or whoever, I think about love and how it encompasses my life.
Cheers, everyone. Remember: Love in a form of pain is still beauty in disguise ;)
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