By Gilbert M. Forbes
DepEd QUEZON, IV-A CALABARZON
With all the events that is happening around the world like civil stripes in the middle east, catastrophic events in New Zealand and just recently, Japan, Filipinos on these places have no other options but to go back home.
They are just very lucky for they still have a country of their own, with their relatives just waiting to welcome them with open arms and a government which is doing even with limited resources to help them get back. Most importantly, a country no matter how economically disadvantageous and politically corrupt it could be, they have a place they can call their home. But what about other nationalities of war turn countries?
It is for this reason that we should love, take care, and protect our home against continuing degradation both moral and environmental. Everybody who is aware of these should work hand and hand to educate our countrymen who through the years have consistently been a threat to its continuing existence. Not only through education, but also prosecution of those who have consistently raping our country of its natural beauty, ignorant they may be but it’s never an excuse.
Who are these villains which we should be very particular?
They are no other than the loiterers, illegal and legal loggers, legal and illegal fishers, traffic violators who used to give tong pats to kotong cops, big and small tax evaders including the ordinary citizens who are not used to asking and getting official receipts, entrepreneurs who made it a habit not to give official receipts to evade paying taxes, the gluttons, the sloth, the corrupt politicians including civil servants who remains ineffective, inefficient, and incompetent.
These are the persons who lack discipline and are tolerated by the government officials to insure that they will get elected again. Everyone who has despised manual labor for quiet a long time in favor of blue collar professions could also be included. It could be you and I or the guy next door. In other words, it’s every one of us who should work to heal our land and to make it a better place for the future ahead and the next generations.
One thing that could be gleaned and learned from these events are the realization that money and material possessions are all insignificant in times of disastrous calamities which could be apocalyptic in magnitude. Money is useless when you have nothing to buy. So goes the thinking and importance of going back to basic and simple living as the popular folk song Bahay Kubo implies.
Indeed, loving our country and realizing it through concrete actions is a faith in action. It is discipline borne out of love for our country and people for there will always never be a place like home, the Philippines, our only home.
(Mr. Gilbert M. Forbes had his Bachelors Degree and MA in Educational Management (CAR) from the Philippine Normal University. A campus paper adviser and trainer for 13 years. Currently, he is a school principal in one of the central schools in the Division of Quezon.)
DepEd QUEZON, IV-A CALABARZON
With all the events that is happening around the world like civil stripes in the middle east, catastrophic events in New Zealand and just recently, Japan, Filipinos on these places have no other options but to go back home.
They are just very lucky for they still have a country of their own, with their relatives just waiting to welcome them with open arms and a government which is doing even with limited resources to help them get back. Most importantly, a country no matter how economically disadvantageous and politically corrupt it could be, they have a place they can call their home. But what about other nationalities of war turn countries?
It is for this reason that we should love, take care, and protect our home against continuing degradation both moral and environmental. Everybody who is aware of these should work hand and hand to educate our countrymen who through the years have consistently been a threat to its continuing existence. Not only through education, but also prosecution of those who have consistently raping our country of its natural beauty, ignorant they may be but it’s never an excuse.
Who are these villains which we should be very particular?
They are no other than the loiterers, illegal and legal loggers, legal and illegal fishers, traffic violators who used to give tong pats to kotong cops, big and small tax evaders including the ordinary citizens who are not used to asking and getting official receipts, entrepreneurs who made it a habit not to give official receipts to evade paying taxes, the gluttons, the sloth, the corrupt politicians including civil servants who remains ineffective, inefficient, and incompetent.
These are the persons who lack discipline and are tolerated by the government officials to insure that they will get elected again. Everyone who has despised manual labor for quiet a long time in favor of blue collar professions could also be included. It could be you and I or the guy next door. In other words, it’s every one of us who should work to heal our land and to make it a better place for the future ahead and the next generations.
One thing that could be gleaned and learned from these events are the realization that money and material possessions are all insignificant in times of disastrous calamities which could be apocalyptic in magnitude. Money is useless when you have nothing to buy. So goes the thinking and importance of going back to basic and simple living as the popular folk song Bahay Kubo implies.
Indeed, loving our country and realizing it through concrete actions is a faith in action. It is discipline borne out of love for our country and people for there will always never be a place like home, the Philippines, our only home.
(Mr. Gilbert M. Forbes had his Bachelors Degree and MA in Educational Management (CAR) from the Philippine Normal University. A campus paper adviser and trainer for 13 years. Currently, he is a school principal in one of the central schools in the Division of Quezon.)
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