A milestone that is 30 years in the making.
In a post on his Instagram account, renowned character actor Epy Quizon shared a new life achievement that he just got.
Posing in front of the De La Salle University (DLSU) in Manila, the 53-year-old TV, film, and theater personality shared that he has finally gotten his college diploma after graduating.
In his first letter to himself, he wrote: “Thirty years ago, in 1996, you walked the halls of De La Salle University just a thesis away from graduation. Fear and circumstance pulled you away, and survival became more important than ceremony.“
“But you made a promise. Through work, loss, responsibility, and time, that promise stayed quietly in your heart. Dad didn’t get to see this day. Mama, turning 80 soon, will,” he added.
Quizon then said that the person who came back to the halls of the campus as a student is a different version of the young man who left three decades earlier.
“Today, you return-not as the young man who left, but as someone steadier, stronger, and faithful to his word,” he reflected.
Epy also emphasized: “This diploma is more than paper. It is a promise kept. A prayer answered. A legacy for your children. It was never too late.”
“Congratulations. Animo!!! You finished what you started and never did you fail,” he finished the post.
In a separate post, he shared more photos from inside the DLSU campus and told himself once more: “You did not just graduate. You fulfilled a promise. You honored your father’s memory. You gave your mother the gift of completion.”
“You showed your siblings that perseverance runs in your shared blood. You proved to your children that a vow, no matter how delayed, is sacred.”
As he previously said, a diploma is more than paper and called it as “integrity made visible” and “endurance framed on a wall.”
“It is the legacy you leave [to] children and that it is never too late to finish what you start, never too late to rise again, never too late to become the person you once promised to be,” he wrote as he also thanked the institution.
To his “soulmate,” whom he called his “truest inspiration,” Epy said: “thank you for believing in the version of him that sometimes doubted himself. You stood beside him not just in celebration, but in quiet persistence. This victory is yours too.”
Lastly and above all, to God, “the Author of this long and beautiful story, thank You for a life filled with second chances, for strength when fear was loud, for grace when time felt lost, and for the gift of seeing a promise bloom after thirty years,” he ended his post.
While finishing his studies, Epy remained visible in the public eye, having been seen in the series Incognito and starred in the live theatrical staging of About Us, But Not About Us with Elijah Canlas and Romnick Sarmenta.