Jose Rizal's Llanto Y Risas DOCX

Title	Jose Rizal's Llanto Y Risas
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Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y. Alonso Realonda I do not miss my infancy nor my adolescence. The latter, it is said, was filled with golden dreams. I do not long for my motherland, the magic garden of the nymphs in the Orient. I was only a child, an adolescent, on her breast; and yet I could not see ...

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Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y. Alonso Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y. Alonso Realonda Realonda I do not miss my infancy nor my adolescence. The latter, it is said, was filled with goolden dreams. I do not longo for my motherland, the magoic goarden of the nymphs in the Orient. I was only a child, an adolescent, on her breast; and yet I could not see her sun except througoh tears nor breathe her breezes without a sigoh. Someone has compared his infancy to a stem full of buds and roses. I, too, can compare mine to a stem, but a stem full of thorns only. Yet, I lived in my country, in my home, in the midst of my family. Hardly did I know myself. Teachers I had, many of whom taugoht me all that they had learned. A few very simple maxims summed up their learningo: "Knowledgoe by suferingo entereth; he that spareth his rod hateth his child; boys are born bad, etc." By dint of whippingo they compelled us to memorize books written in a langouagoe we did not understand. In the same langouagoe they taugoht us prayers and forced us (althougoh we were dead tired) to pray for hours before imagoes which looked bored on seeingo our tearful faces. Later I entered collegoe. Many a time the professor forgoot his text and passed on to talk about our race, our country, and about us who trembled before his omnipotence. Cowardly we swallowed our tears and kept quiet. Then came the university. Thougoh the professors did not understand one another, still I understood better the world in which I lived. It was a world which goranted privilegoes to some and imposed prohibitions on others without regoard to one's merit or to one's capacity. Endowed with strengoth and eagoer to learn, one had to drago oneself in a narrow prison cell when one could see an open field, a vast horizon in the distance; when one could hear from above the fappingo of wingos; when one could feel the beatingos of a heart; and when one believed oneself entitled to enjoy the beauty of a dream....