via Nicole Heart Tamayo, Pressroom PH
A cry for help– is what the Filipinos have been trying to ask for the couple of years as as the gush of another rainwater contributes to the level of flood they have to cross to get to a safer area. The water level is rushing up, and the increase of patient from diseases carried by the water made the hand of filipino citizen to reach for one another as a natural response during their darkest moments, a forced habit they gained in a long wait for something better to come– something which does not involve them enduring everything on their own and relying on promises that never came.
Curse in Disguised
It is an annual ritual, every time the country welcomes another season of constant rainfall, if not typhoons, it has been their practice– to endure, to persevere– to withstand. This very characteristic is what makes the Filipino community, and what makes them the epitome of a unified country. It is a blessing that they have cultivated in all their years of experiencing devastation through calamities.
A blessing that might have been a curse, because with this resilience comes the silent confirmation that they are conditioned to endure, and that no matter what comes their way, they can easily survive it if they just help each other better. However, this is also a wave of the green flag for the people that should have been the ones doing something about it, to do nothing.
Empty Promises and Broken Trust
It has now been the talk of the country, how the Philippines is so doomed that the infrastructures designed to make their lives easier have made their lives worse. Filipinos are eager to know why it has resulted the way that it did. They are anything but happy about the situation, and went as far as calling out the people whose main job is to solve the country’s crisis and make it better. Up to the point of even calling out the people that should be responsible for building such infrastructures. This gained a lot of attention as Filipinos realized the severity of the country’s corruption is.
In the middle of discussion, one thing was common, it was a unanimous decision that there is already a crack in the trust placed among the leaders that is supposed to make the country better. Netizens expressed their disappointment, their disapproval, and their sadness about the current state of the Philippines. In the darkest moments of the country, a unified call for change emerged, not because of the rain water that negatively affected them, but to the people that promised to make it better.
It should be noted that the resilient quality of Filipinos are undoubtedly their charm, but it should not be alluring enough to hinder the leaders of the responsibility that they should be taking, with this exact reason should the citizens of this lovely country practice just enough resilience to be resilient, but never enough to be sufficient by themselves that the deemed leaders forgets the role they play.
The children are hungry, the elderly are sleeping with only the clothes on their backs, and people are cramped together in facilities that barely provide warmth. People are helping each other, but the people who have the power to make it all better are not making it the way they should have. Filipinos are resilient. Resilient enough to not question it, resilient enough to not say something about it, but resilience does not mean endurance, it should not have been enough reason for them to tolerate the bare minimum performance of the government. There is no enough reason for them to deserve better, they simply do.
