Journey to the Past

JOURNEY TO THE PAST

Culture is like a mirror of one’s personality that hanged on the wall of every house. The light of its reflection is serves as the passages which help to understand one’s life. Different people coming from different part of this world have different views, ideas, lifestyle and standards about living. Understanding one’s culture is one way to trace why people have different beliefs and perceptions in their lives. It also helps us to answer why they move and act like that and sometimes it is peculiar in others eye. Tracing the attitudes and behaviors came from assist everyone to understand the similarities and differences of one’s culture.

Live life to the fullest and make a short exploration to the past is a big highway and opportunity to examine one’s culture of his life. Folklore saying says that “Father Like Son and Mother Like Daughter”. A saying where the concept inheritance of culture was can be applied. It is not about the traits it is about the culture that passed from one filial generation to another modern generation.

Join and help me to explore and trace my own cultural background.  Hello. My name is Carlie H.Momongan, a destined to be achiever, a well motivated man, and God-centered creature, huggable and lovable son. I’m the fruit of love of Mr. Ricardo P.Momongan and Mrs. Rosalinda H. Momongan. I’m 17 years old in age and lived in the Pilgrimage City of the Philippines –Antipolo. I’m the eldest child in our small family and now college student of Polytechnic University of the Philippines.  

Now give a time to introduce where tree I came from. The post or pillar of our house is Mr. Ricardo P. Momongan, he is the oldest son of Generosa Perante and Benjamin Momongan who settled in the island of Leyte but he grew in Cebu City. He is a product of broken family and he lived with his own. When he’s mind to grow up and it was filled with bad experience. Based on his past story, I remembered he said to us that he didn’t finished even high school and he started to work his own, because of that scenario he built to his mind a high belief that we must finished our study, he always insist to me and my brother. In the matter of fact, he is my helper during my elementary and high school life; he is always assisting us to accomplish our projects. He never give up providing everything we need just to comply with the requirements. He is also a good disciplinarian in our house. I admired the way he discipline us because he just talk with us and give his sentiment in order to correct our wrong doing, he never used  belt or stick to punish us. He is small but terrible, he didn’t only feeds our mind but he also touches our heart. Those learning’s and good thoughts that I pick up from him is one of the many beliefs that I will adapt and acquire coming from him which I will do to my own family as also their post in the future, which I share also to my future co-workers in my career.

The Light of our House is Mrs. Rosalinda H. Momongan; she is the 6^th child of Antonia Penehermoso and Marciano Hutalla who lived in the Mountain Peninsula of Quezon Province, she grew coming from one big family and supportive parents. A woman of high fighting spirits and stand out views makes her personality as a whole. She is a good decision and plan maker. She is not stingy wife, she fond of buying those things which will make us happy. She is a product of one big family so she is filled with love and affection given by her parents and her siblings whom she shared also to us. She always showed her love to us by means of giving or buying things which is allotted to her but she give to us. She is grew in the province, definitely she also have deep faith in God, in the matter of fact, I always heard from her that she wants us to fulfill our dreams, ambitions and also our vision in our life. Sharing love and much affection is the one the big influence of her to me. Loving and giving my affection to my own family in the future is the best things that I will share to them, which I proud that I acquired coming from my mother. A deep faith with God is the most powerful tool that I used nowadays.  Those learning’s coming from my parents is not only about effect of their culture to me it is also about life changing way from the small one to moving forward to the successful life in the future.Passing the good and bad traits that reflects the belief and perception is one of the good manipulations of identifying and tracing culture influence. Culture is also about the people and the society you belong. It helps me also as future Human Resource in profession in facing different people which have different diversity of perception. 

What is true about culture? It is about the designated traits that our creator gives to us and with the guidance of Him. At last we should be thankful to those things that they shared with us to mold what we are today and what will be in the near future as own legacy.