Service to the Youth at work
While huddled among the members of a homeowners’ association in Masville, Paranaque, who were mostly women, a mother complained that his 14-year old son refused to go to school. I called the boy and said, I was like you when I was a boy your age, with a difference.”I don’t know why it dawned on me as a son of a waitress who grew up without a father that going to school would extricate me from the pangs of poverty. My mother couldn’t afford to send me to college, but I insisted. After teaching high school for a year, I joined the air force, and the rest is history.
I did not notice that all the mothers around me were crying. The boy was also in tears, as he promised to go back to school. I was deeply touched, as I asked the boy to invite me to dinner ten years from now at Max’s Restaurant, with his wife and kids.
Ten years from now, I know this will happen.
Ronnie Arbis
President, RC Paranaque South, District 3830, 2005-2006
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