Bygones

Hi, I'm Eunice... I'm a Filipino and it sometimes frustrates me. A lot of people cease to be logical for the most foolish [non]reasons and it makes me laugh. Not because it's funny but because Filipinos are expected to just laugh it off and move on. As Richard Fish from Ally McBeal would always say, "Bygones." But "bygones" has evolved into something else here in the Philippines, it's not forgiving and forgetting anymore, it's about "I'm too busy thinking of myself that I can't spare time to be bothered by something so MACRO." It is sad really, I do not condemn APATHY in this level, even I am guilty of minding my own business, no matter how superficial my own business is, because at the end of the day, my responsibility is to myself, above all other incidental responsibilities. That's something a majority of the Filipinos have forgotten, being responsible for their own selves. Never mind relationships, never mind the social and political spheres, we must start acknowledging the that we are to be blamed for whatever have befallen upon us. We have to stop pointing at other people for not performing right, we should stop acting helpless, looking at leaders as saviors who bring us to victory. Even the Spartans led by the noble Leonidus [sorry, post - 300 syndrome] didn't make it. It has to be remembered that we, as individuals, can only hope to be a single good sector in this system dominated by bad sectors resulting from a virus. We have to remain sane individually and unite, eventually. There's nothing wrong with being MICRO, in fact, I still believe that it remains to be the most effective strategy at present to initiate change.

As an optimist, I still see goodness and concern in every person that I meet, by continuing to believe, I am able to foresee a future that beams with promise. I think it's something that every Filipino should possess, the belief that things will be better, that's what should inspire us to individually strive to become achievers with the goal of not single-handedly turning things around but of contributing along with other achievers. Sometimes, leaders are mere symbols. Yes, they represent us as a people, but we cannot let them define who we really are. Yes, they are our leaders, theoretically, but we are the leaders of our own selves, we decide and it takes one decision from within us to positively affect things, the decision to SURVIVE no matter what.
Let all the existing controversies be tackled for the sake of knowledge and freedom, but it shouldn't cease us from living our lives the way it should be lived, with hope and determination that can surpass every situation that screams, "BYGONES!"