DEMOCRACY

Our vehicle passed by a thousand of people yelling at Batasang Pambansa. I got curious so I go out of the car and went near them. "Ibaba sa pwesto!", “Ibaba ang Pangulo!" that was the majority of the people is saying. Every term, every SONA of each President, this was the situation in this place. People are always complaining; because of they don't feel the progress, they still experienced poverty, plenty are still unemployed, the officials are corrupt, they used the money of people/mass for the personal use, etc.

I just thought, why do they put the blame on the President? Isn't success starts in one? One needs to be hard working and persevere to obtain success. If they don't want to remain poor, they must give their best in what they do so that success will chase them. Instead of blaming the administration, why don't they blame themselves?  I know there are lots of opportunities that were given to us. All we need to do is to have faith in God, and confidence in ourselves so we could escape from poverty. I believe in the saying “Nasa Dios ang awa, nasa tao ang gawa.” If we continue to depend our fate in God, and we don’t do anything, nothing will happen. If God has mercy, the acts are on us to do.

Instead of having an impeachment rally, why don’t we help our President? The important is he is not corrupting and the anomalies were also exposed in his term. He also built some schools in far places and really helps on the education in the country. Those people don’t know the hardship of being a President, he’s not only the one who’s implementing and holding the different agencies in the country. What if he did and implements what is right but officials under him were not? Is it still his fault? None of us is perfect; there are kind of people who are abusive. They don’t mind whatever would the effect just to be rich, though that money doesn’t belong to them.

Those who interrogate the President are the ones who are in rush to feel the progress of the country. But how will the country progresses if we don’t help to make it happen? How can we promote tourism if we are the ones who destroy it? There are lots of rich students to have the opportunity to study yet they don’t study hard. Why don’t they help the poor? But some poor became abusive if someone helps them. How can we feel the progress if we’ll just be dependent on the government officials? If they want change, one needs to move/act to change what isn’t right. To change what is usual/accustomed in the former leaders. Success comes from oneself and it must start from the youth because youth is the hope of the countrymen.