We Make Our Future

[warblades]

One of the traits as Filipinos is our ability to laugh, sing, and dance in the midst of crisis. This trait may have helped us survive a very grueling year. It is an escape mechanism, making us forget our hunger pangs.
This same trait is also the reason why we are in deep trouble. We just laugh and sing our troubles away, without doing anything concrete to address the problem.
Our unscrupulous political and non-political leaders have also used this weakness of ours to their benefit and to our disadvantage. Oh yes, when their constituents are becoming dissatisfied with how they deal with public concerns, when more and more people are standing up and complaining about their empty stomachs, the easiest way out would be to comic around, sing and dance with them while repeating those empty promises. Too bad for us, those old tactics still worked. The masses would again forget their woes, obviously captivated by our leader’s sweet talk.
This trait of ours has done us more harm than good. While it is a good trait, it was misused, and was used against us, well, with our cooperation of course.
So while we had a really bad year, we must admit that we are a party to it. We allowed it to come upon ourselves. We have such a high level of tolerance for grafters, thieves and sweet talkers in government.
But we just hope that we already learned our lessons.
And this year, 2007, is another chance for us to mold our future, at least for the next 4 to 6 years.
This year is a critical year. We make wrong decisions now, and we carry the results for at least 4 years. We make good choices and we increase our chances for a better PHILIPPINES.
We are all hoping for a better year (as we already did year in and year out). But let’s make this year a different one. We all have a big responsibility for our nation, for ourselves, to our children’s children. LET’S NOT ALLOW the opportunity given us to participate in molding our future go to waste.
And while this election year and election season is not the be all, end all, let’s have a good start, and we proceed from there.
And please, let’s change our attitude of TOLERATING GRAFTERS AND THEIVES (WHO COME IN ALL FORMS, SHAPES, COLORS, AND SIZES) IN THE GOVERNMENT. WE START FROM THERE, AND SURELY EVERYTHING WILL FOLLOW… *** BLESS THE PHILIPPINES