God in My Life....
The Mystery & Gospel of....
Jose Radin L. Garduque....
A Spiritual....
And Religious....
Memoir....
My Joyful Mysteries....
Chapter 1.5....
Losing Honor & Finding Myself....
My Losing Honor & Finding Myself during my adolescence was like the 5th Joyful Mystery - The Losing & Finding of Jesus in the Temple. Mary & Joseph lost their 12 year-old son & later found Him. I also lost my honor & later found myself.
In year 2000 at my age of 12, I became the Top 1 or Valedictorian of the Millennium Batch in Dumarao Central School as we graduated from elementary. But in highschool, I had lost that precious honor. I lost it probably because I developed some bad attitudes like being loud-spoken, conceited & arrogant.
However, through this downfall, I realized my fault. As we graduated from highschool, I tried very hard to become soft-spoken, sensitive to others & humble. Like Jesus Christ who was found by his parents among learned men, God also made me find myself among intelligent people in the University of the Philippines.