LIFE AND A CORRECTION PEN

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By Bernadette Bunao Orgen
IV - Michael Faraday


Who among you have not used a correction pen yet, or at least, have not seen one at all? I bet that almost every student knows its function and appreciates its importance. It helps us cover up misspelled words, grammatically-erroneous sentences, inexact computations, and other wrong answers and enables us to transform them into a correct one.

In life, we also commit errors. A single mistake is enough to destroy a person. A speck of it can deter somebody from realizing his brightest star. Knowing this general rule must lead us from refraining from it. But, doing wrong is truly unavoidable. It is like we are meant for it. It was handed to us when Adam and Eve disobeyed God through eating the forbidden fruit.

In reality, is there really a correction pen which can cover up our errors and transform them into a correct thing?

Our life correction pen is our own will to make up. Making up may not necessarily function just like a real one, since all the wrong that we have done were all locked inside the room of history wherein nobody could enter - nobody can change them. It is like when we make an erasure, that mark will not vanish anymore. It will just be there for good. Though, it could still be corrected after the liquid inside the correction pen had covered it.

Our mistakes have already been imprinted here. They will bring a lot of consequences that will surely affect our lives in the present and in th days to come. We can never escape them. Only we can lessen their burden by moving on. Our faults yesterday may be irrevocable, but the outcomes that they might bring today and tomorrow will be less burdensome through learning from our failure to do right and refraining from doing them again.