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PAGKAKAKILANLAN

An Insight

This literary folio is made as a final requirement for

Filipino Psychology subject, but it doesn't mean that all

the learnings about Sikolohiyang Pilipino would cease

after the semester ends. In here, I did not label the poems

for the fact that as a country that has been colonized for

almost 4 millennia, it feels like we have received too much

labelling, regardless if it is positive or negative. Poems in

here are statements that we should not be caged on the

stereotypes that colonial mentality laid upon us. Same

with sanib. Whenever we see people with unusual, erratic,

and unpredictable movements, we would always perceive

that the person is under possession. We easily throw labels

at people without thinking the repercussions it might

bring upon them.

My final take in this subject and while doing this folio

is that "Tayo ay maging kapwa sa ating kapwa tao". We

need to emphasize enough that as Filipinos, we have a

shared identity. The recognition should start from within,

from us.

"Sa pagkakaroon ng kagandahang-loob, magkakaroon

tayo ng kalayaan, katarungan, at lakas ng loob na

makipagkapwa at makisama sa iba at hindi ibang tao. Sa

ating pakikihalubilo sa kanila, ating malalaman at

mapapakiramdaman kung ano ang kanilang mga

pinagdadaanan, at gamit ito, mas magiging tama at

nararapat ang mga tulong na maibibigay natin sa kanila na

walang kapalit na utang na loob, o kahit na ano pa man."

~Pili, Aimeil Jashpher

2 BS-Psychology