With lots of work finished it is true what the old proverb say: “This too shall pass” and this applies to almost everything that happened in the past two weeks of almost none-writing-hiatus. I decided to write again.
And this endeavor proved problematic at least in the sense where I get to choose what I want to write about, but as the old adage says “write what is closest to your heart”
And here is what’s closest to my heart right now.
“I have decided to leave the country”
The reason is not that simple but as simple as an idiot would want to think of.
“I am tired of the corruption and the incapacity for change in our government.”
I’ve thought about it time and again, almost every night trying to weigh everything in and look at the pros and cons of my decision.
So let me put it lightly what are the pros of going out?
Pros:
1. BETTER PAY.
2. A chance to get out of poverty.
3. A chance for a better education for my children.
4. A chance to have a house of my own.
5. A chance to retire happy and fulfilled.
6. A chance to work up the career ladder and reap the fruits of my labor.
7. A chance to live a stress free life where you get to see where your taxes “really” go.
8. A chance to redeem myself from the clutches of a government and society that will never ever help the poor and instead afford the ruling elite whether in medicine or justice their piece of better pie.
9. I can bring my family there.
10. I can come back to the country if things are better and get out if things are still the same.
Cons:
None that I can think of.
Honestly at first I was hesitant to leave the country, I still had that glimmer of hope that things will go well. But eventually you see the same things over and over again the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer you can only sigh and pray.
But eventually what you pray for might push you in another direction.
The logic is simple if you are a farmer and you are plowing a field that can never be fertile won’t you look for a better field to plow?
If you were a person living in a neighborhood full of drug addicts and killers wouldn’t you look for a place that is much safer?
Truth is I love my country that Is why I’m leaving it.
Why you ask?
I can only help it when I make it realize how much rotten it has become that it has to afford loosing its talented children and succumb to its corruption.
In laymans terms “If it wants to be corrupt then let it be corrupt have people who are corrupt run it and have themselves steal from each other as such that there will come a time that they obliterate themselves”
I want it to see by itself what its sickness is and like Rizal I want it to reform itself that no amount of killing heads of states or EDSA’s would equate to saving it.
What Rizal knew as the problem are not the spaniards or the clerics, I have much reason to believe that the problem is with the people and the people who run the government and those who will eventually run the government even after the revolution.
It proved correct even for him at least in his part he was killed by the spaniards unlike Bonifacio who was killed by their fellow filipinos, perhaps he knew it coming all along, if not him then perhaps his family would come next.
At least for the spaniards they had the capacity to point out who was their culprit as for filipinos Rizal knew that they would point at anyone stopping them from holding power.
And it did happen.
Give an ignorant fool a gun and he’ll kill indiscriminately regardless of kin or kind, but give an ambitious ignorant fool a gun and it will end up willing to kill even the future generations to come.
So I am going out and am willing to risk everything for it, I read somewhere where a columnist asked a Filipino working abroad why other countries prosper while the country continues to stagger down poverty lane.
The Filipino overseas worker answered “Because we get contented too fast, we don’t aspire to be greater to be just and be better for our children.”
He’s never farther from the truth, our society has been so content with corruption and a simple job just to be able to eat three square meals per day, after that we don’t dream anymore we leave it to fate and yes… faith.
While it is good to hope and pray I still believe in hard work and sacrifice to achieve such ends.
This early morning I had a chat with my friend who was able to go to malaysia and he told me this:
“Floyd our sugar is worth 40 pesos theirs is only 16 pesos,
our oil is around 40 pesos per liter theirs is only 18 pesos… They don’t have a sugarcane plantation and they can spend anything to buy in malls… but here we can’t even buy anything unless its sale…”
A friend of mine now works there, she came from a poor family and have been working for 6 years and still has no savings. Now she can save as much as she want.
Another friend of mine works in dubai and she earns at least pesos 250k per month tax free… what she can’t earn by working for 6 years she now earns in a month. the next thing I heard that she wants to do is buy a car and retire early.
I can only look at them with awe given their brave step of going out and earning what they ought to earn to begin with.
On another note a friend of mine who’s a magna cum laude from the University of the Philippines decided to quit working in our company and decided to teach at U.P.
I can only wish him luck knowing that he’d eventually get his salary 6 months from now.
I am proud of him but at the same time I feel sorry for him.
I have lots of professor friends and I know how hard their life is sometimes I think that its not worth it but what can I say against their passion?
As for me my place is not here, If others can do it then perhaps I too can…
(On another note another story really bothers me… a friend of mine told me how an american who came to the country worked in a call center and earn 180k per month doing the same job as a Filipino but the filipino earns not even half of the americans’ pay, thing is the american has no diploma and the filipino has one. The call center is in the country and has been earning more than 500% from our countrymen. Its just so sad really…)
Here’s to going out and bading goodbye to my beloved country!
cheers!
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