The Mystical Geek

Just what is life,
is it just a passing dream …?

So goes a song I wrote for musical play that was performed many years ago at San Agustin Center of Studies.  What reminded me of the song was an old cartoon I did in 1995 about an experience I had on my first year at the University of San Agustin — Iloilo.  A first year or second year student approached me one day asking the question “What is life?”  The question impressed me since I knew there was no faculty of philosophy in that university.  So before I gave him a definition of life, I first asked him why he asked the question in the first place.  It turned out that it was an assignment for a class in biology and that the teacher had required the students to ask the same question to as many people as they can.  After that encounter with the student, I drew the following cartoon (Note that I look much much better than the old priest I depict in the illustration). Click on the upper and lower panels for a bigger picture of each.