The Good Grasp Of The Dream
(SOC AQUILATO OC-2370 PA)
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ime moves pretty fast and if we don’t stop to look around once in a
while, it may pass us by. As I look back on our eleven amazing months of
training, it is easy to see that the Officer Candidate School has played an
instrumental role in helping to shape the young men and women in uniform with integrity
and honor as their touchstone. I could
not even imagine how our class was able to resist the suffering, pain, and
hardship in the training that we experienced here in OCS. The more I thought
about it, however, the more real it becomes.
This training determines our career as future
military leaders. For the past few months, we have been given information and
necessary knowledge and it is now the time to put it in good use. Now we are
headed to our true journey in life - to become military officers in our own way;
leaders who are willing to defend the flag of our country at all cost. This is an answered prayer I was asking from
God as it is actually the direction I was trying to pursue ever since I was an
ROTC Cadet. During my ROTC days I was really determined to join the
organization. I always recite the Cadet Creed with high hopes that soon I will
take the oath and become an army officer committed to defend the value which
makes the nation great.
From then on, every day brings me new
chances which enable me to grow, new challenges to face, and new goals to
pursue. Every day is a new step towards my pleasant dream. Every day is a new
test for me. I came in Luzon to continue what I have started. I joined the
Probationary Officer Training Course (MS43) and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant
in the reserve force. But my passion to become an officer in the regular force
kept me sane and enabled me to cover up the difficulties and challenges in
everything I do.
When the class took their steps towards
the plains of Luzon and hurdled the mountains of Tarlac to reach the portals of
OCS, the realization of my dream illuminated from the deep. And I believe that
there was nowhere to turn. All I have to do is to take control of life and
direct it towards the outcome I want. With this, I decided to bite the bullet
of my own future.
Together, as a class, we endured many crises but
we always found ways to emerge stronger than before. We’ve taken strenuous activities,
performed unlimited exercises, gave our best in marching, and harvested wisdom
whenever it is found. However, along the way, some failed to move forward. But
we could not blame them because the military life is bound by so many
confusions. Military life is really hard. But it is our duty to make this
confusion be organized the way it has to be. Sometimes, we encountered
situations which we never anticipated. There are also things that you must do
even if you don’t want to.
To the KABALIKAT class, each of us
chose a path. Whether it begins tomorrow or in September, things will never be
the same again. Always remember that forgiveness is healthier than resentment
and that friendship is infinitely more useful than hatred. I move onto my
comrades - those people I enjoy spending time with - and I guess for every colleague whom I learned
to consider as brothers and sisters, it will always be difficult for me to
detach from you.
I wish I had some miraculous advice that would
alter the course of your entire life. But I only experienced just as much as
you have. We all have different expectations for our lives and therefore can’t
use other people’s standards in judging our own destiny. There is a lot of
power inside each of us waiting to be unleashed. As we end one glorious chapter of our career,
a new one begins. We still have a fresh blank page ahead of us. It is up to us
to grab our pen and write our own stories in the battlefield. B
SOC AQUILATO is a graduate of Bachelor of Education
in Elementary Education Major in Mathematics
at
Caraga State University.
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