Everything physical you see in this world - your grades, your appearance, is merely a shadow. Getting a 4.0 doesn’t mean you are smart, neither is getting a 0.0 as a sign of dim-wittedness. A man can love you because you’re sexy, but once he looks around there would always be women who are sexier than you. So why do you all keep on wanting someone handsome, rich, and intelligent to qualify as the perfect man? Is it just because you want people to regard highly of you? That is the allegory of Plato’s story about the cave. Shadows are mere representations of relative things. Shadows are merely poor imitations. Therefore, shadows are not real. All you need is enlightenment. So go look for the sun that is a symbol of absolute truth, love, wisdom, beauty, goodness, and knowledge.

Miss Velasco during one of our INTFILO discussions about Plato