Blessie Anne Manlapid is a young girl with promising dreams of the future. She loves thinking in her free time and garners a lot of ideas for a story while doing random things. A person who loves to dream and never loses hope; she shares the milestones she has reached in the fourteen years she has been alive.
Give us a small glimpse of who you are.
Blessie: I’m quite shy and I’m like a turtle; the one to hide in my shell whenever someone tries to go near me but once I already know the person, I’d pop my head out from within. I’m also talkative, even mumbling nonsense just to satisfy my need to blurt out words. I also fuss a lot, worrying about things I shouldn’t be minding and spends half of my time fearing bad things would eventually happen. But above all of that, I try to be cheerful at times, just to make my life more colorful than it is. As much as I’m a pessimist, I’m also an optimist. I think of opportunities that would give me a chance to unveil myself and show to the people around me that I’m not just an ordinary teenage kid, but one who has the will to be something much more than that.
Do you love Math?
Blessie: As much as I want to, but unfortunately, I don’t. I have this tendency to dislike the things I’m not good at. I guess it depends. During my sophomore year, when we were tackling about Algebra, my first impression of it was not that good. I used to get low grades since I really didn’t get the gist of it. I dreaded the time when I would have to sit and will my brain to access the equations and it just won’t budge. I’m coming up with nothing. Nada. But then, after two quarters, I started enjoying it since I was finally figuring it all out. I can already do it and I would just come up with the answers without doing much work. For that, I guess I could say I don’t love Math, but I like it.
What would you do to like and excel in the subject?
Blessie: I guess just listen to your teacher on the exact moment she’s making her point. After all, what best way to learn than have an expert lay it down for you? Pay attention on the process and after a thing or two you’ll find out that it makes sense and you can already to do it by yourself. And one more thing, try to remember all the rules, especially in Geometry, you’ll have to take note all the postulates and be sure to keep them in your memory so you could just refer them on later instances when their help would be required. Constant practice would do you good too so you can get yourself used to various math problems.
What are your priorities, goals?
Blessie: My main priority is to get through high school whole, happy and educated. Right now, in my junior year, it’s all about stress, pressing deadlines and constant rant of “Oh, please, just kill me now” thing. I make my studies a priority since for one thing, my parents are paying a lot to sustain me and it’s only the right thing to excel in it. My goals would have to be to maintain my grades and stay in the cream section and maybe raise the bar a little by finding my way back to the top ten. I don’t know why I vie for it so much, but it would really be good to know that you to try your best and you’re being rewarded for all the effort you have done. Hopefully, I would make it.
What inspirational advice would you give your fellow students?
Blessie: Try to thinking of the song Go the Distance in the Disney movie Hercules. The song tells it all. Just trust in yourself and do the best that you can. There would be pitfalls at times but you should learn to overcome them and pull yourself back up. If there’s a subject you don’t get, then try even harder! Everybody has a place to be and you should be strong to be able to go the distance and make it big someday. Just remember that every milestone you’ll be stepping would make who you are and the things you believe in will help you on your way. Enjoy every stop over you’ll be making it life because you’ll only be doing it once.
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