WHY DID I APPLY AS A CWTS OFFICER?

When I First entered U.P. high, I saw some fourth year guys and gals wearing black shirt but most of their batch mates were wearing white shirt. I wondered who were these senior students who were wearing black shirt and I found out that these students were members of the CWTS officers or Civic Welfare Training Service officers. These students were the ones who train their batch mates who where not officers or so called cadets. These young officers help maintain order in the school and teach the students proper discipline. Since then, I was interested in becoming a CWTS officer in the near future and I’ve got a lot of reasons why I should become a CWTS officer.

My first reason why do I want to become a CWTS officer is to learn how to lead. I want to lead my fellow batch mates and teach them proper discipline. I want to be a good and responsible leader. According to Albert Einstein, “Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means”. The only way to lead the students in the school to become good and responsible people is to set myself as an example. If the students in the school do not have proper discipline, then I am not a leader.

Another reason why do I want to become a CWTS officer is to learn how to become a responsible person. If I want to lead my batch mates and teach them to become responsible, I must also be responsible. During training, I will learn to become responsible in my time management especially waking up early during summer and to be responsible in my tasks and challenges. If I want to have the power to lead, then I must take responsibilities. Just like in the movie Spider Man when Peter Parker said that “great power comes with great responsibility”. As an officer, I have great responsibilities in school and therefore I must not escape and take for granted those responsibilities.

Another reason is that I want to prove something to myself. That I am not just an ordinary U.P. student who only knows playing basketball every afternoon. I want to improve my self-esteem. I want to prove something to myself that I can be somebody; I can be a CWTS officer who can lead and can share what I have learned in the training to my batch mates and become a good role model of a responsible person to them.

Another reason is that I want to become a well-disciplined person. I can never be a CWTS officer if I do not have discipline because during training, discipline is very important. Applicants are not allowed to go to malls and needs to be on time during training. Without discipline, I can never do those things. Another reason is that I want to test myself how brave and how tough I am in facing challenges and test how strong I am in facing problems during training. If I will pass in the training and become a CWTS officer, it means I have faced challenges that will make me a stronger person and the things I have learned from the training can be applied to my future challenges.

Another reason is that I want to have an achievement that will make my parents proud. Becoming a CWTS officer is a great honor to my parents and family and also to my school. It is a tribute for them and a sign that their son can be somebody in school.

Another reason is that I want to learn how to obey and follow rules to my teachers or the present CWTS officers. It is only when you obey that you have the right to command just like the quote of John Florio that says “who has not served cannot command”. My teachers in the CWTS training for sure obeyed their trainers because they can never be officers if they did not learn how to obey.

Another reason is that I want to gain friends because the moment I apply as an officer, the present CWTS officers or my teachers automatically become my friends and if I would become an officer, I can gain friends from different year levels because I am now a school leader and the next applicants will also be my friends.

Another reason and I think for me is the most important is that I want to experience everything about being a CWTS officer. I want to experience the fun, the excitement, the thrill, the hardships and the joy during our training to become a CWTS officer. I want also to experience different activities with myself as an officer. With my experiences, I know I would learn a lot of things especially from my mistakes. My experiences would help and teach me to become a better person. Just like what my best friend Nico Martin told me, “experience is the best teacher”. We would never learn unless we have experience failure.

And the last reason why do I want to become a CWTS officer is that finally, I can wear black shirt instead of white. It sound silly but since I was first year, I always dreamed of wearing black shirt as a sign that I am an officer and think that I am a page ahead of some of my classmates but I believe that we are all equal.

To become a CWTS officer needs a lot of determination. Since the day I have learned about what are CWTS officers, I was very determined to become one of them. And now, I am so much blessed that I have met the required grade to apply as a CWTS officer. Some says that becoming a CWTS officer is just for others to respect you but hey, I have learned that if you want to be respected, respect others first. I hope I can survive all challenges and become a good CWTS officer.