We Remain

We have always amazed ourselves with an illusion of greatness for our country. In one way or the other, we find ourselves relying on mere possibilities of future growth and development. Sadly, we have never really cared enough to turn those utopian dreams into actuality. Now more than ever, we find our motherland grasping for survival. In any case, we all remain decked along the shelves intended by the global community for those who are left behind.
We must admit that real progress is not at hand merely because the government is claiming that the schemes for economic survival are working. We need more than just sweet sounding demagogues and empty words leading us to the land of nowhere. We have no real solution to alleviate poverty and stop political repression. Not even the multi-million emergency fund of the office of the president seems to work good enough for a long-term plan. It is just like a situation wherein we are hopelessly trapped in a vicious cycle within a maze and the escape route exists only in our dreams.
The continuous degradation of the way of life of the monthly-paid employees down to those who are jobless is alarming. We see each day passing like a bountiful harvest soaked by the rain before even a cavan was consumed. We remain slaves in a society we claim to be our own. We still find ourselves fettered by the idea of a Cinderella transformation only to find out that we, ourselves, are the wicked culprits.
The claws of apathy are deceiving our nation. We remain entangled in our comfort zones. All the while, many people are merely contented watching from the corners and taverns of our society numbed by the fact that they see themselves as very small components whose actions would not really matter. But as LUDWIG Feuerback will necessarily say, the point is neither to watch nor interpret, it is to change the situation. No matter how small we really are, if we would just have the guts to stand for what we believe in, we could start social transformation.