Hopeless Case?

we are all ambassadors of the country, whatever we show, how great or worst may it be, is reflected to our country.
not everyone in the world have visited and stayed in the Philippines to have a clear picture of who we are as a people, most often they make the Filipinos they encounter as their basis as to who we are and what kind country do we have.
i am quite bothered by how we act on the crises that we face and how we handle the misfortunes of our fellowmen.
we have grown so expressive of what we feel, that we just blurt our thought on that certain moment without realizing its impact to us all.
the technology should work for us and should not be the other way around.
in just a click away, everybody knows our lot.
i am not saying that we always put up a good image even to the point of concealing the reality. no, i am not for that.
what i am trying to say is, yes, we acknowledge what happened and we readily act on it. should we clamor, we have to be responsible to offer solutions for it.
what is happening now is that, the exchanges we have on the different social networking sites create a hopeless mood enveloped by mistrust, disappointment, disgust and even fury.
we are Filipinos, we are resilient and we sure can surpass this like any other major adversities we faced in the past.

it is my prayer that we choose to foster a feeling of hope rather than entertaining an array of negative feelings that creates no good to us as a nation.
should we just allow ourselves to be drowned by shame, humiliation and anger which was triggered by the incompetence of some authorities? we should not.
why should we allow negative feelings creep in our systems? you may have forgotten, we have some other thousand better options, let's choose it.

we are Filipinos for a reason. one thing is certain to me, we are not here to put this country into shame. please do your share.
you are looking forward to a BETTER PHILIPPINES huh? it's time to translate that hope into action by starting IN YOU the change you want to see. now, if all you know is to clamor, you DO NOT REALLY have the right to demand and expect something good.

if you are ashamed of our lot, of being a Filipino, of having to live here: then you can just leave the country anytime.

we do not need people who drag us rather than boost us.

yes, there was a crisis yesterday brought about by the desolate hostage-taker who was dealt by the incompetent police, to which the whole scene was covered by insensitive media, which surprisingly showed how the oblivious bystanders swarmed the area because there was no crowd contol. tskk..tsk..tsk.. your negative feelings are valid, but for now, the best move is to move forward. let's bring the learning we have from this and make this a better nation.
God bless the Philippines and the Filipinos!

Lou

08/24/10