To my dear fellow Filipinos inside our country and all over the world.
Finally, after months of enduring rainfalls and heart-breaking issues of the past administration and of the country, in general, we have embarked on yet another journey that would forever change the history of the Philippines forever. We have placed our votes, an individual choice that is much more meaningful for every citizen than for one’s self. The stakes are on, and what’s left for us to do is wait.
Waiting, in lay man’s term, is the simple act of practicing patience and mind-coordination with one’s physical actions. Waiting helps an individual to think about the actions he or she is yet to make, and a majority of actions are thought carefully, because these people who are to commit to these actions were able to wait. So it begins, and let’s face it, in waiting.
What we cannot see right now are, obviously, the entirety of the truth. Some of our candidates believe they’ve been cheated, or they’ve been held against their own will to run freely into the political spectrum. We also cannot see if the polls flashed on our TV or Laptop screens are factual. But it doesn’t matter. What the people in the media and the officials wants from us citizens is to wait. It is in their assurance that what we wait for is worth it.But we have to act. We have to do something about it while we wait. We cannot just stay put and wait for the decision. We do something about it! We open our minds and our hearts and broadcast what we know is rightful to do! We open our eyes and observe the surroundings. We open our ears and listen to the cries of the people, to the grief they shout, to the calls they make. It is true, what I just mentioned, that to wait is of greater importance than to finally see it coming. Remember, it was Confucius who said that “It doesn’t matter where we go to, it’s by getting there that counts,” and I believe him. It would definitely bring our country to a different perspective once again, as another chief-of-staff sit on the presidential throne. As many other past administrations, this one coming would definitely bring forth criticism, doubt, anger, uncertainty, but more or less, trust, loyalty, respect and love. But it is not in waiting that this can bring each of us happiness.It is in doing our part as citizens of this country.
We have done our part. We have voted. We have made our choice. We have won the fight over ourselves on whether or not we should make this choice and bring it out in the open. The battle, unfortunately, is just beginning.
In a few hours from now, or maybe, if it will imply that it would take another day or two before final proclamations can be made, we would find out who has won. We would finally see that light at the end of the tunnel. We would be done waiting. In the mean time, though, waiting can still motivate us to think about what is going on. Patience, as what was mentioned before, is very much connected with ‘Waiting.’ And it is through patience that we are able to know what type of person we are. It is in patience that we try new things, or get rid of bad. It is indeed a virtue planted in each of us by the Almighty.
What is wrong with the polls telling us our candidate/s of choice did not win? What is wrong with us telling each other that he or she should have better poll results or that he or she should concede now? There is something wrong. We are obviously not as united as we liked to be. During the Aquino assassination some few years back, we were finally united to tell Marcos he has got to go. We were united to sign a petition proclaiming Corazon Aquino’s candidacy for presidency. We were united to bring freedom to our country. And then a few administrations go by, and what do we find? Corruption. Graft. Undying poverty. Never-ending fights for freedom. Vote buying. Cheating. Judicial Killings. Wars. When would this end? If I use our ‘Waiting Philosophy’ in these scenarios, would we ever get anywhere? Of course not! It is not our duty to wait and see. It is, therefore, our duty to do what we think or what we know is right.
It is also true that we cannot accept how the results are turning out. This is something most Filipinos are not capable of overcoming: Defeat. We are so pride-stricken, that we forget to surrender. But what if this result could actually bring us the freedom that we need? What if our country can become a place of unity and of prosperity, as it once was, because of these results? What if this can make a difference in each of us? Then we cannot just Wait and See. We have to do something. We might not know yet what we can do or what we have to do, but we can very well see that during the reign of this person, we might be able to do something.
I ask you all the respect that the president and the vice president, along with all those who will be elected. I ask you all the sincerity of accepting their win and the open-mindedness that they can very well make something great happen. In unity and dignity, the Philippines would forever triumph. Then, we can might as well say that what most of us waited for, and saw, was truly and undoubtedly worth it after all. God bless the Republic of the Philippines, and God bless the Filipinos of the world!
Ah, yes. Maid in Manhattan. It honestly sounds like “The Nanny”, if you ask me. But hey, this is one of those movies you’ll always want to see! Aside from having Ralph Fiennes in it, and of course, J-Lo, what is nice about this movie is Natasha Richardson’s role in it! (May she rest in peace. I’ve always enjoyed her in ‘Parent Trap’!) Why I say this, I’m not really sure. But you won’t see her in the end wishing it was her that Ralph Fiennes choose–(Whoops! I just spoiled you!!!) Anyway, as it turned out, J-Lo and Ralph do end up together, and they have the little son to help them, too!
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