Thursday, June 23, 2005
awit ng kabataanis there hope for the philippines?
here's a question thrown around ever since the time of our forefathers who supposedly liberated our country and granted us freedom. but with the way things are, not much has changed since then. we've just given the bad guys bigger guns and the good guys more of a reason to shut up and do nothing about it. we're a regular gotham city.
people keep producing prophecies on when and how the philippines will finally rise up and start to progress. we've all talked about it so much that all these ways and means have become nothing more than one big cliche. and just like any cliche, it's used everyday out of impulse, out of a good way to fit in good words. but what are words without their meanings? cliche's lose their meanings simply because we use them too much and find them to be part of routine, part of a sentence that means something else. take for example, "good night. sleep tight." do any of you know what "sleep tight" really means? no one does. but we still say it all the time, even though it has lost its meaning.
all these ways and means are at risk of losing their meanings as well. sure, they will be talked about until time enough for us to die six times or more, but the meanings that they hold which encompass every ideal that we need to uphold, to fight for, will all be lost in oblivion. soon, the "education first's", the "down with corruption's", the "unity of all filipino people's", the "we need a good, strong, resilient leader's", and all that bullshit will all just be part of sentences that we say everyday. sentences that we say which don't have meaning. useless. stupid. and most importantly, leading to the impending death of our country.
how do we stop these great plans from their downfall? i don't wanna be preachy, and i definitely don't wanna lie. i have NO fucking idea... at all. i've thought it through, it seems that we're too deep in this vicious cycle to amass enough energy to break away. it seems that every means to get away from this vicious cycle has already been covered, hence, we're trapped like mice. little mice in a mousehole with the hole plugged up. inside, we'll end up hungry. we'll start eating each other up, and end up rotting on top of each other until we all stink like hell. eew.
but hey, not to negate myself, i HAVE hope for the philippines. i do. simply why, i plan to settle here all my life. i guess, it's pretty stupid in my case but it's sort of a The Matrix scenario. it's all about believing and doing something about it in your own way. i may not be able to change the world, but i know i can do whatever it takes to live with it the best way i can, not just for me, but for everyone around me. i'm not a nationalist, i'm a humanist. i'm not idealistic, i'm a hopelessly-blind hopeful. i'm not trying to awaken the nation's children into a revolution for the betterment of the... yadiyah. i'm telling everyone to live.
just live.
no one knows how to live nowadays. people are too worried about stupid things. being the ugly, hated, dirty mice/rats that we are, there're always things to worry about. but there are things to enjoy too. there's the scintillating aroma of fresh garbage. there's only getting your tail [and your tail alone] cut from that nasty mousetrap.. tas nakuha mo pa yung keso! face it, life may be ugly [especially in the philippines], but we can all still live it and enjoy every single speck we can out of it.
P.S.
"sleep tight" came from the olden times. i'm not sure where and i'm not sure when exactly. but see, back then, some people were made to sleep on wooden-like beds with cranks and pulleys that had ropes attached which one would tie on his/her limbs, and as you fall asleep, you'd have someone tighten the cranks. they must've been crazy back then, but the tighter you slept, the more comfortable you were. boo. sleep tight.
the adventure ended at 8:02 PM
