I would always miss NUSP

I would always miss NUSP. This is the position that I worked for the longest in the student movement. I was also in this org when I suddenly walked out and left. Contradictions and personal preferences took over me, and at that time, I did not have full control of my own life. I left to face my own contradictions and I never knew that going back is harder than arriving for the first time.

I would want to come back in the movement, not as a student anymore but as a young person who is yearning for her passions in life. I would want to march again in the streets with the people and shout with them to seek a society with just and lasting peace.

But then I would like to finish shaping the structure of myself as an individual. I need to undergo serious self criticism. For some reasons, I am not yet ready. I've become too preoccupied with trivial things, spent my nights and days crying over silly contradictions which any freedom fighter could easily resolve. I don't know why but it seems that I never learned. Being a revolutionary is different from living a simple and ordinary life.

Wherever I go, injustice prevails. I have encountered reality first-hand. I don't know how to get myself to face being a victim of powerful people and irresponsibility. Then I have to look back at the workings of how a revolutionary faces contradictions.

 

 

Pictures Taken last NUSP Alumni Home coming, September 20, 2008 at Former Cheif Justice Artemio Panganiban's Residence. he is the founder of this most esteemed alliance.

Below: Former PUP Student Regents: Gly Gotiangco (three terms before me), Henrie Enaje (My successor), Myself, Pia Prado (Henrie's successor). As student regents, we worked with NUSP to push for students' rights and welfare. Othr group pictures: NUSP members Noon at ngayon.