LV: the key to life’s triumphs

The inspiration of this essay:

A conversation in today’s (9/15/09) 6:30 am class.

1: Don’t you and your classmates come to class early because you don’t want to get embarrassed?

(Two-second silence)

2: Uh…Yes, Sir.

1: Do you want to get embarrassed?

2 No Sir. I do not want to get embarrassed.

1: “Yan. Ganyan talaga ang Filipino doing things just because they do not what to get embarrassed… ‘Di nyo ba na isip na mas kahiya-hiya pa yung pinapakita nyo? (referring to some of us being late for our other classes) Don’t you think being late in another teacher’s class is a disrespect of his person?”

(Three-second Silence.)

1: Cge. Go be Filipinos and pull this country down with you.

The conversation struck me harder than a lover who got hit by cupid’s arrow. 1 was right. We tend to do things just because we don’t want to get embarrassed or because we want to leave a good impression. We normally don’t think about doing things because it is what is right and just.

So what’s up with LV?

Why do I think it’s the key for all triumphs?

LV, of course not Louis Vuitton but LIVING VIRTUOUSLY is the key for all triumphs because virtue is what makes a good life. Prudence, temperance, fortitude and justice are what make us live life to the fullest. Yes, going against the rules or acting evil may be more fun than LV but dear, fun does not always equate to happiness. Authentic triumph may only be felt when you know you exerted much effort to attain the goal. LV is difficult to achieve while the opposite, VL a.k.a Villain Living, is so easy to achieve. There is no victory in taking the easy way out. Likewise, there is no authentic triumph in achieving evil goals. You may have won the game but if you know you cheated, the feeling of triumph is lame. Your conscience will haunt you (unless your conscience is calloused). It will not put you to sleep at night knowing that you did what is wrong when you could have done what is right. I guess that’s why the quote goes, “The greatest regret in life is not the wrong things that we’ve done, but the right things that we should have or could have done but never did.”

LV is not a one time big time act. It is a daily repetitive decision. Certainly, we will commit mistakes and fall into sin because it’s part of man’s fallen nature. But we have the power of the will to back us up, to pull us in our every fall. We just have to decide then make the move.

Ergo, I dare you to make the move, (I’m talking to myself too.) to live in fashion. Take LV as your fashion statement now. :)