GRADUATE: A PARTNER TOWARDS TRANSFORMATIONAL SOCIETY, AN ANSWER TO SOCIETAL CHANGE Lives of great men all remind us We can make

our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Greetings)

Today, the future envisioned yesterday has come to a reality. Today, our future is to be uncovered. Our potency will be strengthened. Our cleverness will be built in order to stand the earth. Our passion will be given help to mold itself and to bend itself in times of turmoil. Today, the graduates of batch 2010-2011 shall harvest the fruits of their endeavors for the past four years and we, your elders, will stand to be your partners towards transformational society, the answer to societal change. Who among the parents would want his or her child to live in poverty? Who among us would want to stock yourselves to your closets and comfort zones? Who among us would want you to hurt yourselves? None. Thus, we are here. We will always be here and there. We will enlighten your future of hopes and serenity and progress with each others help. You are the hope of the Fatherland. It has been known to us that humankind faces not a preordained future, but a choice. The choice is between four generic futures - (1) Continuation (2) Decline and Collapse, (3) Disciplined Society, (4) Transformational Society. And, we aid you as you forward your strengths towards transformation because we believe on the threshold of unbelievable revolution. Yet, some question how such incredible thing becomes feasible. How will it be really? This counterculture dreamt of the free "flowering of personality", the ideal of pure community, the adventure of ethnic diversity, the exploration of further reaches of human nature, life lived gently on the planet, and the alternative economy. Scientists, journalists, writers, artists, and others discover the "wave of the future" of which a Transformational Society brings with it new family styles; changed ways of working, living and loving; a new economic system; new political system; and an altered consciousness. Small transformational groups, no matter how enlightened, cannot by themselves create a new civilization. Visions, theories, truth-telling, learning

and others look workable strategies for a global transformation. With that, stratagems should be planned and actions should be taken not by one hand alone but by many, by US. We plan to make unbelievable ideas to a living truth, an existing fact, a breathing image. This we have to work for to stop the crisis we are into now. You might say you are just youths but you have the right, the strength, and the power from your bodies, your skills and talents enhanced, and your ideas that adhere to envision against our present situation. Though young in age, we recognize the entirety and the connection of experience to reality. As you therefore demand a future of cultural creativity that shall genuinely care about saving the planet, our values, and our views, our expressions and spirituality and spare our lives, we push you up. As you stipulate the emphasis on wholly awareness of every nook ad corner in our society, we remain your aid. As you demand authenticity - at home, at work or school, and in politics, we shall be bounded with the responsibility of helping you. The future is the time of global peace, of meditation and the development of planetary and cosmic consciousness. Through unity and through the expansion of our minds, the unexpected for the present mainstream science will become possible. It will be the end of wars and rages to riches. It will be the end of the planet burning to coils. It will be the end of our sufferings. Hence, the start of the new genre, the new beginning which encompasses you and your uniqueness. Progress will be seen, technologically, psychologically, sociologically and spiritually. This we should proclaim in front each of us, dear parents and visitors and God. Let us continue tell and show that we are the graduates partners towards transformational society. Dear parents, let us continue be their guide, their inspiration, their strength and support in all their endeavours. This, I extremely believe, fuels their minds to be competitive and ideal. As long as we remain believing to their own expression and fulfilment of dreams, we will never fail. Let us pray and believe in them because they know themselves more than we do. Mentors, teacher, we applaud you for a job well done and we expect more fruits from your pursuance of goals. As second parents, continue showing youths like them the perfect picture of the world. It is worth it, right? Feel the breeze of joy in your hearts as you mold a hope for the future. Later, they will still be your children and we, their second family. Ladies and gentlemen, we are a single family who will always remain. The bondage we have as partners toward this radical change is an elixir of strength and motivation for us to pursue and achieve our goals for our community. You, graduates, are our proteins. We are your building blocks. Together, we will always be whom

youve known as your parents, siblings and partners. Our home is the earth. Our connection is our hearts. Our goal is in our minds. To God be the glory as He connected our roads and will connect them still towards a bright future with understanding, awareness, and peace. Let us welcome each other like they are our parachutes. We always bring each other up. We are taught that the most valuable gift isnt wealth nor fame. It is wisdom. And wisdom should be used interrelated to one another for an ideal community. Life is a boat saddling over countless waves, sailing against the wind, tempered to face the every sun and rain of a day. Nevertheless, together, we march towards transformational society: our aim, our vision, our plan. As we push on our own pedal and speed up to success, it is our duty to help each other to move soothingly taking our own course of life. Today, we unpeel the hidden mysteries that waited to be unveiled from shyness. We expose the ideas that waited to be recognized in order for it to grow. We water the trees of hopes striving to grow in a world of competition. We feed the sprouting seeds of talents that strongly waving to the rainbow of success. Let us always keep in our minds and hearts the idea of Louis Pasteur: Will, work and success fill human existence. Nothing will be impossible if we entwine with each other with our same goals. We are partners. Therefore, let us strive to win against berserk. Let us transform the society. Let us live the way God wants it to be. Live and pursue. Thank you and God bless each of us as we journey towards the future.