"Whose the judge? The judge is God. And why is it God? because He decides whose gonna lose. Whose your opponent? it doesn't exist and what exist? the words of truth".
I was looking for a certain document when I came across one of my friends account and I've read that one of his favorites movie is "The Great Debaters".I always felt nostalgic everytime I heard the word debater for the reason that I'm also a debater myself. Although, my high school and college debating life was totally different but still the motion will always be the same "fight for what you believe is right". I wasn't able to finish the movie that night because I'm so sleepy at that time.Saturday in the evening I was thinking of doing something when I remember that I was not able to finish the movie last night. And so I'm giving it a try that night. I didn't expect that this movie will made me cry, the plot, the setting, and even the actors and actresses were suited perfectly for the film no wonder this movie got an award because it worth it!
After watching the movie I browse some of my pictures and I kept on staring on the particular picture that one of my co-debaters made, it brings many memories to me and it made me smile while reminiscing our experiences and funny escapades. We were so young, (I should say) back then when we first met each other, we came from different departments and had different majors.Our university has only one official debating society, our debating adviser gather us together to be the representative of our college in the said society. We undergone trainings with them and some mock debate to enhance our skills. After how many months, we all felt that we don't like to be in that field anymore, we felt that we were just following an instructions that will never make ourselves complete we want to experience the true battle of debate. Thus, we decided together with our adviser to create another debating society depicting our college name. We learned previously that the founder of our university's debating society was a teacher in our college before and it's just for some mistakes why he was transferred to other college. He encourage us to be different from others and be of our own selves and from that day on the CDG was formed.
We have a non-stop campaign from that day onwards telling every students that being in a debating society is really fun, some ignored it because they were afraid about the so-called "public speaking" but there were also who are brave enough to join us. As time goes by, we created the best team in our guild and we are able to grab major wins in different competition that needs debaters.We are not only able to develop our debating skills but most importantly we created the friendship that were not able to find when we were in the different debating society. Who would have thought that all of us can be friends even for the fact that we came from different departments, who would have thought that we can share to each other the problems we had and can come up with a good advise, and who would have thought that our friendship will inspire the aspiring debaters in our college.
And nevertheless, we can proudly say that we are the pioneers of our college debaters guild, we all took the challenge to be different and we're not afraid to face the consequences of the said decision. From the year we graduated and for many years to come we know that the debating guild we all worked hard to achieve will produce a "great debaters" because we founded the guild with friendship as it's base.
We have different journey to follow but I know within each others heart the spirit of being a debater is still burning same as the day we smile to each other as opponent and the day we hugged each other as forever comrades in the field of debate. And I'm glad to know that up to this moment the bond we made never fade we still care and help each other. We, the CED DEBATERS GUILD were certified "DEBATITIS" the disease of being hungry to debate and I'm proud to be one of "The Great Debaters".
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