i’ve talked about what Philippines is like for me…. i love it and hate it both at the same time… considering the culture here, yeah it is rather… weird…
this country is a place of both the passives and the actives…. the actives / activists are those that prefer to take action against anything that may offend them or prove them injustice. the passives/passivists on the other hand, prefer to forgive and forget…
most of the time, people around here pare passivists… and when they do turn activist, there’s a point where they turn soft and regress back to being passive… call it an anger outburst which suddenly went off and returned you to your state of resolution…
sometimes on the other hand, Filipinos do go through with their being active and make sure to see things to the end… however, this happens, most of the time, without thinking first of the possible consequences of their action….
in everything that we do, there are pros and cons and there are also our goals. the very first thing that a pro active individual should consider is the goal, the means and the possibility of achieving it. i for one aim for a permanent goal. not something that would last only seconds after implementation of an action…
problems concerning the fiscibility of achieving a goal is highly dependent on the situation and environment. meaning, the factors that tend to limit your capabilities. considering an institution, your goals would be greatly affected by the owner, manager or whatever of your company. further studies concerning these factors would help you realize if you can or cannot achieve your goal… if the institution is corrupt, selfish and all rotten, basically your chances are null.
the above is capable of turning any individual within this country passive… why? because all the work, all the blood and saliva would just go to waste…
you see here in the Philippines, there is just about 40% justice for every individual…. simply because it is a place where it doesn’t matter what you know, its who you know… furthermore, people on top don’t give a rat’s ass about those below, just as long as their capable of maintaining their position of power… so even if they have the power to help you, they won’t just to prevent themselves from being in hot water. aside from that, there are also institutions wherein they don’t give a damn about customers so long as they pay… meaning, going to a restaurant owned by a stingy son of a bitch who charges 1000pesos for 3 chicken wings, you try complaining but nothing happens… you wanna leave but you’re there already paying for your bills and just swallowing the stuff served to you - i.e. you’re bound..
all of us want to make changes in our lives… but sometimes, those changes just seem to be a lil hard to achieve… for some people, like myself, we keep up and try to push for our beliefs, our goals, our rights… but then sometimes, you just feel that you’d end up with nothing because you know that the culture in your location is just the way it is and can never be changed… you may achieve a certain goal now, but in the end, the stuff you worked so hard to change would just come back and haunt you back (possibly stab you in the back)…
yes Philippines is a free country… a country free for people to do injustice to other people!… a country where the corrupt stay in power… a country where those who are righteous are shot in the back for standing out for what is right… i.e. this place is hell