If we are not aligned with the powers-that-be as we do not agree with their ideas including how to govern, and we also do not get along with the opposition, what do you do? Will you just walk away by relocating abroad? Or will wes just become apolitical or cynics and just insolate ourselves mentally from what is happening around which most probably would be determined and steered by the people we did not vote for? Doing any of that would be running away from our country.
Let us not forget that it is the only country we have. We can become naturalized citizens in so many other countries but these can never be our native country?
There is another eventuality. This is the country our children or relatives or other loved ones will be living in. They are parts of us and any suffering they will go through means our suffering too.
Most of all, however, what can we do to make us able to smile when our end comes and be able to say, “Life was good and we did our bit to make this world a little bit better than how we first found it.”
Since you are reading this, we all have the capability to contribute something towards that end, and maybe to influence others to do so.
The reason so many people think a big majority of the voters made stupid choices was because they lacked the necessary education to make informed and free choices. So many didn’t even understand why their lives were miserable economically and in all other respects. Others were not free to make choices. They were limited by poverty and other economic constraints that any offer, whether real or imagined, was something to believe in and bite. A P500.00 bill was considered a blessing to tide over the night without feeling the pangs of hunger.
Where does that lead us? Any effort to make people get educated or to improve our educational system, kills two birds with just a bullet or stone. It helps lessen bad choices when the next election comes, and improves the earning capacity of people. It should help solve poverty in the brain and in the pocket.
How can we do it? Either as individuals through our small ways. Or by joining groups with the same purpose.**