LIFE'S RECIPE

LIFE’S RECIPE


If life is a recipe it is made up of three very important ingredients: Heredity, Environment and Education cooked on an equally important pot over a tripod of Family, Government and School. The finished product is appropriately sauced with the morality offered by the Church.

The three main ingredients must be properly balanced and rightfully cooked for life to be deliciously palatable. Most of all the tripod that holds the cooking pot must also be equally strong and sturdy to keep the cooking constantly in good process.

The tripod is made up of the family values, the governmental concerns and the moral teachings and guidance of the Church.

It is unfortunate that the family cannot perfectly accomplish its mission as sometimes both the father and the mother have to work outside the home to make both ends meet.

Likewise the government has so much concerns that the family is sometime left less attended. In like manner the Church that should cater for the moral regeneration of children are also affected by the appearance of so many religious sects to the confusion of the parishioners.

About the main ingredient, Heredity, nothing much could be changed or totally improved. We never had a chance to choose our ancestors. On the other side protection of the environment depend so much on how we take care of it.

Education is the ingredient where much could be expected. While in some remote communities many children walk miles to reach school and while in still other villages no school is at all available, Alfonso is solucky that schools are as common as common colds and is a commodity like common sense.

At the Poblacion alone there are the old Central Elementary School, the National High School, the private Sacred Heart School of Cavite, the Victorious Montesorri College, the Maranatha Living Hope Academy,the Westpoint College plus several Day Care Centers and many tutoring services.

Nearby at Barangay Pajo is the Nazareth Institute and the Biblica La Belle Academy at Bgy.Marahan. At Bgy. Luksuhin there are about half a dozen functioning schools, such as Agnus,Die, Blessed Ville, Flanessa Martin, Gracious Gift plus the Govt. High School. Outside the Poblacion, all the other Barangays are not deprived of educational institutions like the St. Joseph Parochial School a Kaytitingga.

Taking all things into consideration, Alfonsinos are indeed still lucky that the recipe of life is still carefully and properly cooked the right way in spite of light disruptions here and there brought about by the ‘modernities’ and technologies of the present generation. We must all thank God for all our blessings.