Seasing the Day with Ms. Anna Oposa

Being a young leader herself, Anna Oposa certainly inspires both the youth and the elders. Basically, she has an appeal to everyone. It is amazing how a 25-years old lady carry around so much passion and invigoration with her that she wholeheartedly radiates to the world.

Last Friday, February 7, 2014, Anna Oposa gave a lecture about the importance of taking care of our marine biodiversity. She shows that there is so much to be done and there's a lot that we can do about it. She graduated with a BA English Studies degree, she doesn't have much background with marine biology when she started her cause but look at where she is right now. She is a living example of living with passion and actually doing something about it and with that she inspires me so much. Yes, it just took her one and a half hours to spark up my intuition.

Ms. Anna Oposa is a co-founder of Save Philippine Seas which is an organized movement which goal is to protect the marine resources of the Philippines by utilizing the social media and enforcement of the environmental laws. With her lecture, she opened up my eyes to the depths of the Philippines' ocean floor. We as inhabitants of this archipelago should dig deeper than the surface of the water because that is where three-fourths of life is and there is a lot happening deep within that we should take note of. I think she made a great point when she said that we are so focus on the life at land that we take for granted what's in the waters when in fact the world is three-fourths water and that the country where we live in is completely surrounded with water. It made so much sense. Taking care of the seas should not stop with cleaning the trash that we can see on it's surface because there is so much more deep down and we should not take it for granted because that's where most of this world is and if only we are optimizing the potential of the seas then we can sustainably support our lives in the land. We can get so much from it if only we are not selfish greedy beings and if we actually take time to listen to the waves, then we can learn how to do things properly

Moreover, she also mentioned how powerful social media has been and that instead of just posting about our lunch we should harness its potential for greater cause and that's what she has been doing. Social media is indeed an influential flat form to send our message across, it is a venue for us to listen and be heard so why not maximize its use to imply good change for the betterment of our society. Especially nowadays that everyone is on it, more importantly, the youth sector is so into it and these are the changemakers that we should tap to lead our society to a brighter future.

I learned a lot about marine biodiversity specifically in Philippine context but it's more than that. I learned a lot about taking a stand and fighting for it. That we should not be confined with the apathetic apartheid that is emergent in our society these days.

The world has given us so much, without it we will be nowhere- now that it needs us, this is the perfect opportunity for us to give what we should.