2010: Bangon, Pinoy!

The year 2009 was literally a disaster more than anything else. The nation was all about proving the national leadership corrupt, while actual corruption is implemented and silently accepted, using either borrowed funds from global financiers or grants from donors who generously and surprisingly continue to give even when they see funds go to waste. Still, a great number persevered to go on with the work at hand with excellence and honesty. Otherwise, anarchy was a very easy culprit to have taken over.

To top it all, natural disasters joined the avalanche. The nation’s natural resources, misused and abused through time, gave way to man’s greed and selfishness. So we had  super typhoons Pepeng and Ondoy, dumping unprecedented rainfall which flooded Metro Manila and Northern Luzon. With these, we lost more or less 400 lives and made thousands of families homeless. Again, more people than expected went to contribute in the rescue and relief efforts. Now, the rehabilitation will need a million fold .

Lessons from these experiences are clear:

• Leadership should have integrity in all levels of governance since trust and confidence in the national leadership is essential to nation-building. 

• Filipinos are great professionals, efficient laborers, industrious workers, and caring home makers. We just need to have the country’s best interest at heart if we want the nation to move ahead.

• Support of any kind, given within a framework of crisis management go a longer way than one which is reactionary. The former is long-term; the latter temporary.

• We have all the reasons to be grateful for another year, another chance. 

• God is still on our side. 

Bangon, Pinoy!