We can quickly get love from our parents, brothers, sisters, pals, and loved ones, but there’s a LOVE that we can also feel genuine, knowing that we are not related to them by blood, but they cared and loved us the most, that is a TEACHER’S LOVE.

Truly, love means to be deeply committed to someone or something, that is what our teachers offer to their students. They started as a student and willingly committed their hearts and minds to pursue and finish a degree to be able to share their knowledge with others, with us, their students.

Sadly, what we seldom see, they put so much dedication into their profession and can’t manage to prioritize their family and even neglected their personal interests to do lesson plans and submit their outputs on or ahead of time. For them, the true meaning of love is to care about someone else’s happiness than their own.

Moreover, it is very undeniable that most of us forgot their value, their worth; a very noble profession that only wanted to hone the future of their students. They did not just help us to have a bright future, they also helped us to shape our minds and to recognize our talents and goals in life.

Lastly, we should be thankful for all the experiences we have gone through with them, God allowed those things to happen to make way for other significant occurrences to change our life or other’s life for the better. They may not be vocal in showing and saying that they truly care for us but one thing is for sure, they really gave their best foot forward to share their knowledge and learnings with us.

May this article be an instrument to appreciate them most, we may not see them often, but we should always be FOREVER grateful to them. Our teachers provided great contributions to what we were yesterday and what we have become today, they taught us to be a fighter, and they equipped us with knowledge as an armor and shield to face the reality of life. Let us remember them in any way and every way we can because once in our life, we had a teacher, whom we treated as our second parent.

 

INALD R. GATLABAYAN
Administrative Assistant II