The Desire to Know
In this confusing world, how does one find the truth? With the various kinds of oppression on the veracity of things, seldom could we find a person who tends to be passionate in knowing more about the truth. Someone who is ready to surrender herself to the truth and eventually recast its negative aspects.
Eunice Amorado was just 19 when she became the president of a feminist organization, SIKABAY, a cultural organization led by socially aware and empowered women who believe in the role of art and the artist in the society. To her, an artist is responsible in revealing the decays of the community and at the same time, suggest solutions. Studying in an exclusive girls school (St.Theresa’s College), “Eun-eun” as her friends call her, is quite vocal with her idealisms. She believes that every person should be keen when it comes to social awareness.
At her age, she is determined to meet and share her perspectives with different kinds of people. Like the
Nevertheless, just like any other ordinary girl, Eunice has also gone through times when she was passive with what was happening around her. She admitted that she had also experienced moments where she did not have the desire nor drive to be aware of the concerns of the community and never exerted effort to at least know them. She even confessed that she feels better with the kind of person she is right now compared to who she was before. She labelled herself as more conscious and more socially aware, yet she still holds the desire and hunger for learning. For her, there is a lot of things to learn if we just open up “I surrendered myself towards knowing the truth. I mean anyone can tell you and could give you facts about this and about that certain information but I think you could really get these facts if you just open yourself. If you just surrender yourself and open your mind, that you want to know this you want to know more about this and you are ready to accept it and you are ready to do something about it”.
The realization never comes with just a snap of the fingers. Through meeting different people who share different perspectives, Eunice has learned to be more inclined to discover the truth by herself, “It was not really noble or whatever moments but sometimes it takes you in unexpected moments to change your perspectives. I met several people who talked about issues; it started as something basic as that”. With those encounters, she realized that she has been engrossed in too many fantasies and has been impervious to realities.
As a young girl, Eunice sometimes feels vulnerable to people who continue to stay motionless despite tribulations, “Some people are just really difficult to penetrate”. Although she appears to be strong and resilient, as a girl, she is also disheartened when she feels that people do not seem to notice the effort that she has tried to exert in her desire to at least bring about changes in our decadent situation.
Eunice is aware that changes will not take place in just a wink of the eye, yet, she remains positive about it, “I’m still optimistic that ten years from now, this condition that I’m in would become better in the sense that more people would be aware to make an effort in making this change”. She is enthusiastic and persistent in her advocacy to work hand in hand with women who believe in the same cause. For after all, Eunice deems women as, “someone equal to men.”
Considering our decadent condition, there is a great possibility for the truth not to be perceived accurately. In the desire to relate well with the community, we sometimes deny the possibility of knowing the truth. In this sense, we have a tendency to create a substitute belief, and therefore adhere to false truth. Such condition will eventually lead everything to be interpreted in such a way as to support either a noble or crooked act. Nonetheless, the desire to know the truth rests in our hands.
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