Prudence and Madness

29 days before the Medical Board exams…

Tick, tock. Tick, tock.

I guess everybody are in their favorite gimmick spots right now. And I’m stuck here at home I really, really hope that I’ll pass the boards. I’ve been wanting to go out on a gimmick for weeks and I want to drink, party, and have fun! I think I’m slowly going crazy being stuck here at home for such a long time. That’s a big sacrifice for a drifter like me haha…a person who wanted to be out of the house all the time. I mean, I want to go anywhere…just anywhere not inside the house. Well, maybe one thing that could tie me down inside the house would be the computer! I like to surf the Net (obviously). Though I can do that in the internet shops, it’s different when I do it here at home where all my files are stored, all the gadgets are in, and it’s free (Uhm, not really, it’s just that I’m not paying for it! :0) )!

Been watching the news…same old problems really. The opposition is now preparing for the ammended impeachment proposal, which would be presented on Monday (I think). People, from different sectors of the society, are now clamoring for the president’s resignation. However, I’m not really sure if this is truly representative of the country’s sentiments. I, for one, I’m not really in favor of the president’s abrupt resignation. Some of my friends, too, are not in favor of such a haphazard way of dealing with this serious political problem. I say let’s follow the rules. Start the long impeachment process. A long time it may take before a resolution could be reached. But it’s the right way. We definitely know it is the right way. And it’s on black and white. Admissible to any court of law. Justifiable in any court of law. I’m not a law expert. But it is something, that I think, common sense should be telling us.

Many would say that patience, at this time, would not be a virtue anymore. Our country has long been in the clutches of ever-worsening poverty afflicted all underdeveloped countries worldwide. We have suffered too much from foreign tyranny, from local government abuse, and from our own countrymen’s apathy. Time to make a drastic change in how we live. And that time is now, this is what the pro-resignation people would say.

I don’t have to look far to understand this. All I have to do is switch on the living room TV and listen to the police reports of criminals caught being interviewed. One guy was caught by the local townspeople, accused of having raped a thirteen-year old mute girl. When asked why he did the crime, he simply answered, “Type ko kasi s’ya (I liked her).” Could anyone be more blunt than that? And then, there were four men who robbed a middle-aged lady and his son P18,000 when they were on their way to Divisoria to buy vegetables for their mini-grocery store.

So sad. Our people have been reduced to mere shadows of human beings…animals acting on impulse rather than will. Survival comes first before one could think of idealism. It’s one of the rules of evolution.

And to add insult to injury, our hope, the young Filipino graduates, are fleeing the country in search of a brighter future…a future that seemed already dim if they stayed. These young blood that could perhaps make the land fertile again by bringing new and modern life…the very people who could save the country from total destruction are, ironically, leaving it.

But who could blame them?

Survival first before idealism.

And with this, may be it’s really just up to us to do our best and make this a better place for us who are left here. But, for how long can we still hold on? How do we know what to do when today there is a blurred line between what is right and wrong?

Tick, tock. Tick, tock.

Time is already running out on us.