A Man with Goodwill (Character Sketch)
A MAN WITH GOODWILL
Let me tell something about a man with goodwill no other than my uncle, Rogelio Mercado, a professional mechanical engineer. Uncle Roger, whom fondly called by other people, is the brother of my mother and the firstborn man in their family. He was born a half year after the declaration of Martial Law to a popular mechanical engineer and a brilliant educator. A man who really followed his father’s footstep of being a mechanical engineer in Qatar where he is working for 15 years. My relationship to my uncle is such very closely and brings me a lot of great impacts from his positive moods. In addition, he raises two beautiful children who are very loving with him unconditionally.
Much has been amazed at his unique personality especially when he is going to deal with many people. When frequent people see him his height is tall like a legend PBA or NBA player as Kobe Bryant or Lebron James. He is seemingly drawing near in height or Hercules because he is the tallest man in their family and he said to himself before that his high school classmates fondly called him “Hercules”. When he was young, he likes to join marathons and runs very fast like flowing water in a dam. Aside from his height, he often smiles at everybody and it could be comparable to a Chinese guy. When he moves to go to other places, his posture becomes defected by health risks as his wife told a story that he likes handling heavy objects most especially his backpack is full of something paperwork as he needs for his job. His wife is much aware of his health status.
Uncle Roger has a lot of positive moods in doing his job and raising his family. He is very kind, compassionate, generous, and loyal to everybody. He loves helping the needy and gives a wholeheartedly hundredfold. He is so much religious as he is enriched with spiritual strength, moral responsibility, and dignity to God. He is the only man in this world that seemingly living full of grace and all positive traits of a good person are in him already.
When he spends his vacation in the Philippines yearly, he is more extroverted and adventurous as his favorite hobby is to go somewhere for an adventure with his family. Their family wants to travel to various famous landmarks across the country. They are very happy to spend the vacation in the Philippines and he likes to stay at his beloved homeland where he raised before he found a great fortune in the Middle East. He is a good guy to mingle with a lot of people. He is such wealthy and truly blessed with a hundred positive characters.
Many of his close acquaintances have learned a lot of moral lessons from him. They learned to put themselves into God’s faith so that every Sunday their obligation is to go to the church to attend Holy Mass to worship God and thank him for the marvelous blessings He gives to humankind for everyday life. He also trains other people to learn the Word of God and the appropriate usage of the holy bible. He is the inspiration and strength in the life of others whom he entrusted and loved most.
As a professional mechanical engineer, he is very energetic in performing his job abroad. He has strong emotions to surpass those heavy struggles whatever there are times he feels sleepless for doing such works. He is a creative and mathematical – logical man in the organization of engineering drafts to construct infrastructures as the company’s primary task hence Qatar is indeed beautiful and progressive when it comes to scenic landmarks.
Since he has a virtue of religiosity, he is currently joining a world-renowned Catholic religious organization which is the Couples for Christ (CFC) wherein his family has belonged to that group. He is also the head of such an institution. His leadership in CFC has brought to amazement especially when the group had a tremendous outreach program for the victims of a tragic disaster that transpired in their place. Their group is also very much helpful to various charity organizations so that they have a sense of volunteerism and act of responsiveness in providing basic needs for the sake of other people. The prestigious group is now popular among the other ones since they have made great contributions with numerous privileges around the world.