All I Can Say

All I can say is that the politicians in this country are driving everyone insane with their greedy talks and empty platitudes. Gah!

I haven't read the newspaper in a while, I just glanced at the head lines and I will suddenly lose interest. I have this habit of ignoring and/ or going as far away from negative things and negative people as possible. That's why I avoid the newspapers these days like the plague. Here we are, leading our own miserable lives, and the newspapers, media are having a heyday brandishing any scandal, any negative comments of some unknown politician who wants to get a piece of the pie, in effect, further demoralizing Filipinos along the way.

I badly needed to get out and that's what we did last Friday night.

We went to Xaymaca, and watched brown man revival (I forgot the way they write their name and i'm too lazy to look for my cd) and it was great. The atmosphere was free and happy and everyone is gently swaying to the beat of the reggae music. My kind of gimick. But I don't think my friends enjoyed it as much as I did. Hopefully they did. But then, it's just an escape. Going out, not reading the newspapers, and not watching the news on TV, these are all escapes. But I cannot escape the ugly reality of this country's downfall - greedy politicians. They are literally everywhere. scattered and preying on weak minds and even weaker spirits.

This morning, when we attended mass, the priest said that amidst the bleakness, the darkness, if one turns to the Lord, one would see light, a spark of hope.

I think every one of us in that chapel is listening and thinking the same thing. The priest already gave us hope by showing us the way. I guess He's only waiting for us to come to our senses. I'm just praying that we Filipinos would learn to think for ourselves and not rely too much on what other people are saying.

I hope this time around we will learn our lesson.