'This, dear friends, is the beauty of Magis — not to do more, but to be more.... To find joy not in the victories, but in the absurdity of even daring to try. To fight, to dedicate ourselves in the service of the other, so they may live not only better lives but fuller lives.
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I’d be remiss not to take this moment to show my gratitude to the man who raised me. For the past 10 years, my father has had the herculean task of raising me and my three siblings alone.
A few semesters after our win in Madrid, I was sitting in on a friend’s philosophy class. The professor arrives at the concept of, the topic of our World Final. He says to the class, “You know, the Ateneo debate team won the World Championship on this topic. Can anyone tell me what their winning argument was?” My friend, giggling, starts elbowing me to recite., I raise my hand sheepishly and go “Ah yes, Sir, I think they said this…” The professor thinks for a bit and says, “Hmm, very good.
Still, we read poetry at funerals and dance our hearts out at weddings. We quote philosophers at graduations and make speeches at the dawn of revolution. We build monuments to our melancholy, immortalize our sadness in song, and decide on a new meaning of life every time we leave the cinema.
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