“I
came to win, to fight,
to conquer, to thrive
I came to win, to survive,
I came to win, to survive,
to prosper, to rise, to fly”
These phrases came from a famous pop
song of Nicki Minaj that can relate to anyone who aims to surpass difficulties
and hurdles. Now, this was the song which my brain played after North Fairview
High School unexpectedly won the recent District II-B Secondary Schools Press
Conference held in Mater Carmelli School, Novaliches, Quezon City.
We
came to win …
Winning
is not an option to us, it is a must. We have no other goals than to win and
continue the legacy of the previous fellow journalists who have successfully
wrote the school’s name on shiny plaques and golden trophies. It is such a
great honor to represent the whole campus and to compete for its right to be
recognized but it is a big burden on our shoulders on how we could sustain such
great history of our campus journalism. We came, not just to pass other
schools, but we came to win.
to
fight, to conquer, to thrive …
As we entered the Mater
Carmelli, we held all our heads up, hoping to achieve what we came for. Honor
and reputation is what we’re fighting for. We made our hearts as our only
weapons to win this war. The hearts of which shouted for victory. We have to
conquer everything to prove that we are indeed worthy of the trust and patience
that our dear adviser gave us. We have to surpass not just the opponents, but
our own selves, from the weaknesses up to the raging emotions that might stop
us. But the hardest part of all is to thrive all the way to success. We may
have the guts to win, the courage to attack, but to keep in the track could
have been a shame. The beginning may not be easy, but the ending would be easy.
Yet, if we stopped in the beginning, we can never achieve what we cherishing
now. As to fight is to conquer to thrive.
We
came to win, to survive …
One must eat challenges
in order to survive. This is a quote from our Journalism adviser who have shaped
us from dirty rocks into shiny gems which are about to show its precious side
sooner. There is no straight and smooth path to success, one has to go under
rough roads and slippery ways before reaching its destination but it doesn’t
mean no one can achieve it. From that day our hearts were filled with the
enthusiasm and dream of winning we know that we can get through this together. More
challenges are yet to come but we have to survive.
to
prosper, to rise, to fly …
As
we came to get back on the throne, we also put in mind that we need to show
everyone that our batch can also be remembered as one of the most prosperous
one. The batch such schools and succeeding years will get inspiration from. An
inspiration that we know we can rise above using our own pens and papers, so
far it didn’t fail us and we will keep that as we fly towards the dreams of
each one of us. And that is, winning the Nationals.
The
press conference of Journalism has taught us something we can never learn just
by reading books or writing literary pieces. It taught us the gift of
experience. Every one of us joins contests and wins individually, but in
Journalism, it’s not just about who wrote what or who win what, in the end, it’s
about what we could do for our school as a gratitude for the experiences that
they shared us, the feelings of being united, the feelings of being honored,
and the feelings of expressing our hearts for this world.
