CYDF Project Proposal to Sinagtala '87 - Calantas Young Dreamers ...

encounter in the pursuit of achieving a successful career in life. Consequently, he
sets his mind into doing his best to ultimately achieve what he wants to
accomplish academically through the CYDF Scholarship Program. “To become”
as an action word is another ingredient of a healthy seed of CYDF Scholarship in
the making. For if the recipient of the scholarship comes to a point of becoming
aware of this principle “to become,’ then he has a tool to become successful in life
through the CYDF Scholarship Program, “helping him help himself, thus being
able to help others when his due time comes.”
4. Who I Want To Be
A person is he who is and who has the potential to become of who he wants
to be. This is the height of a realization that a person has a dignity and as such is a
declaration of his dignity as a human being. This dignity is imbedded in his ability
to exercise his will, his choice, his freedom. This dignity is what makes a person,
a person is. When a person loses his ability to exercise his freedom, he has lost
his dignity. The lost of his freedom is his choice and not something taken away
from him. Freedom is lost when a person refuses to be responsible as a
consequence of his actions. Being responsible is like a masterpiece of art work
broken into pieces because the artist refuses to acknowledge that his art work is a
masterpiece. Meaning, in exercising my freedom I could decide to acknowledge
or refuse to acknowledge the merit of my art work. When I refuse to
acknowledge, I exercise my freedom negatively and this is called “freedom from”
and when I exercise to acknowledge the merit of my art work, I exercise my
freedom positively and this is called “freedom for.” When you exercise your
freedom negatively, you are said to be irresponsible because you refuse to
acknowledge the merit of your art work. And you are said to be responsible
because you acknowledge the merit of your art work. You are said to be
responsible too because you have the ability to respond to a call. The call is like a
vocation for you to become who you want to be in life, “Who I want to be” and
this becomes your destiny. Destiny is a truth about how you respond to your call.
5. Self-Esteem
When a person has reached a level of consciousness and is more aware of
his individuality that “he is for who he is and has the potential to become in
who he wants to be,” he has come to a point of experiencing his
self-actualization. Self-actualization is the end product of a process in man’s
search for meaning in life and this search for meaning in life is meant for an
individual to develop his potentiality to the fullest so he could enjoy the very
essence of his existence and can become capable of transcending the realities of
his life. As an individual person, he begins to feel good about himself as he is
going through the process of change, rising above himself as he explores all his
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