To you, Juan dela Cruz, have you ever taken your citizeship on the level of really living out your title-- a FILIPINO? Or have you just been a liability for the nation, thinking you are doing your huge part as an individual? And if your nation have been in such a fiasco for the past 20 years or so-- STILL on the stage of endless beginning of development, haven't you thought of pointing your fingers to yourself?
Last Tuesday, as I was on my way to the school, while inside the bus, two radio DJs were talking. I got to somehow remember the flow of what they said which for me is really sarcastic.
DJ1: "Aaaaah, yun ba yung madungis na punit-punit na damit?"
DJ2: "Hahahaha. E pulubi naman ata yung sinasabi mo e?!"
DJ1: "Oo nga. Yun nga."
DJ2: "Haha. National Costume yun ng Pilipinas e!"
DJ1: "Hindi naman."
DJ2: "Oo, mayaman kasi ang Pilipinas.... Mayaman sa Utang!"
And they both laughed hard leaving the conversation hanging, as they changed to another topic.
The country's status is not just a laughing matter. "Siguro kaya tayo ganito kasi lahat na lang tinatawanan natin." Indeed, there is nothing wrong with putting up humor in our lives sometimes, but having it too much is bad. It was so heartbreaking hearing that. And I just cannot help but to answer them in my thoughts. I cannot stand just the idea of how they share their corrupted ideas just to fish around sympathy from the masses. Yes, it may be a joke, it may be humorous enough for some. But the values aren't really there. It is a waste of time listening to your petty offensive jokes. You see, you are public figures and the whole Philippines may have heard what you just said. Some may be njmb enough to just laugh it off and go over their lives and some may be to nationalistic enought to react on it. However, most of them are fans of your programs and you should have been influencing values somewhere, somehow. But the thing is, it was seriously an insult for me. Yes, you are talking to the masses, and it may just be a view of the reality on your part. But it was just tedious to keep doing it and for you to discriminate your own country like that is a serious offense. Democracy has never been absolute. Instead of alleviating or addressing somehow the clamors of what you see as DJs, you instead unpleasingly delight yourselves with what you see bad. And you just leave it there. You take notice, you mention it, you comment on it, you exacerbate the clamor and you just leave it there. It is like a kid, seeing rubbish on the floor, telling it to his friend and now, leaving it just right there.
This is reality. And most Filipinos have now stayed like this, feeling the hopelessness for the country without thinking the opportunity they have of being able to change the status quo. What happens now is that most Filipinos point their fingers to some politician or trapos to give the blame and saying that it is all their fault. But haven't you thought that you were also the one who put them up there? Or maybe if you were not part of the majority of votes, haven't you thought that you very much take part on what is happening?
I am not pointing my finger to just one sect or group in the society. I am pointing these fingers to myself. I am a Filipino and I am very much part of whatever may happen to my country, to my nation. And it is the worst heartbreak to see it stagnant in my watch, knowing I can still do something, knowing that this generation can very much change the course of history. And it is disheartening that there are still those numb young Filipinos who remain to see the Philippines as a falling, downgrading, backward moving nation. More than they or I myself can think of, the country needs us.
And it is in our very hands to change the course of our nation by changing first what we, ourselves have been believing. Yes, it takes so much guts to go against the flow of what has been. But in a way or two, you should have taken a mark of your stand in this country.
We should not just take pride in what our country has been achieving in the positive note but we sould also take those disheartening truths and in our own ways, be truthful enough to make a mark and change them. Again, it has never been easy. And it takes real Filipinos to stand for them.
[There may even be more opinions possibly spoken coming from my co-contemporaries especially talking about the feasibilities and sources. :)]
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