#glimpseofthepast

During my juvenile years, I am really engage on playing offline and online games usually alone and sometimes together with my few friends and acquaintances. I spend a lot of time to play games making me to neglect my studies during that time resulting to a not so high yet average remarks in my elementary education. Also my mother usually scold me for being addicted in that particular games.

The main reason why I become attached and engaged to this field of virtual interaction of gaming is my being alone and resemblance of being an introvert that time. I rarely interacts towards my peers (only to the one me and my parent really know and familiar to e.g. neighbors, child of my parent’s friend) and the online games becomes my companion in life. It is the one who makes me feel happiness and joyful despite of being unsocial and victim of bullying. Online gaming established a thought in my perception that no one is an island. It is the one stays at my side together with my unknown internet friends that leverage my sense of forlorn.

As time goes by, I become older and mature. I have overcome my introvert and reclusive personality tends me to have more friends. I have moderated my playing time on online games as I really engage this time on my academic enrichment. The one I really regret and repent this present period is the weakening of my eyes having a blurry vision as a consequence for extreme engagement in online gaming during my childhood days.

Now, I really take care of my physical health especially to my vision, making it healthy and fully functioning by engagement to various physical activities and consumption of healthy foods to not make my condition worsen but to normalize it.

 LESSON AND REALIZATIONS TOWARDS THE SEGMENT

This segment of Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho made mme realize that we sould take care of our health physically and mentally especially in the juvenile period of our life to not do something bad that we’re really no longer resolves in its original state in the mere future such as mild/ severe physical malfunction, lack of profound social life experiences, etc.

Aside from that, the subjects experiences on their journey in online gaming to enlightens our perception, to look at our surrounding, and try to listen to the feedbacks and sermon of the people around us. Were the main intent is to save us from technology domination nor makes us a better person. Not wait to something bad/ crucial occurrence happens on us before we listen to them.

In the brighter side, Eyyou made us realize to not easily gives up our dreams in life but to pursue it despite of social despise (considering the one who have a proficient point on refuting us), to put it in our hearts and be sincere on our goals that will serve as a key in order to reach the summit.

 IMPACT OF THE SEGMENT TO MY PERCEPTION AS WELL AS TO OTHER VIEWERS

Kapuso Mo Jessica Soho’s featured segment on the risks and good outcome of online gaming tends me and other millennials to be more aware, to think holistically before engaging to certain action and activities. Now I have a good time management in relation to my daily routines and scheduled essential activities. I give now a space to the particular things I didn’t engage before that tends me to explore in various field that may improves my obtained skills and potentials.

“Blowpipe Maker Shares Rare, Ancient Craft” Published on Sep 30, 2014

“In “Balan the Blowpipe Maker,” filmmaker Ross Harrison introduces viewers to an indigenous Malaysian elder and craftsman. "Only a few elders of Borneo’s Penan tribe still know how to make their unique hunting tool, the blowpipe. Balan is the last person in his village who practices the craft," says Harrison.” (National Geographic)

When I read that the Blog Post for this week was as open-ended as choose a public use of a craft, I knew I had to find something not only unique but extremely interesting.  This segment by National Geographic definitely fit that criteria.  This little interesting video clip was done to appeal to people like myself.  People who are just curious to know more about the world that we live in also to take a glimpse into the past.  That does seem to be National Geographic’s purpose as well doesn’t it?  To educate and inform people about the world we live in even if that means travelling into the jungles of Borneo to find a little guy shooting darts out of sticks.  There is no perceivable gain from knowing this information other than just for the pure enjoyment of knowing something new and being enlightened on a subject that you may not ever have known existed.