I read somewhere that the greatest struggles are not fought on the world’s battlefields.
They are fought in human hearts as men and women deal with the pressures within, which often defeat them.
The real enemies are forces such as fear, worry, inadequacy, inferiority, anger, frustration, hate, greed and the inability to cope.
The Manila clean-up is a good example of what political will plus a positive mindset can do. It results to something really satiating and pleasing. Progress, you could say.
Critics of this administration never cease to make a fool of themselves.
When Boracay was first broached to be closed for a total environmental clean-up, so many idiots raised alarm bells.
After Boracay was rehabilitated because of the thorough clean-up campaign that brought to the fore what political will and positive mindset can do, the idiots cringed in silence.
The fools that they are, they keep injecting fears and doubts into our countrymen’s consciousness because the government has been found wanting in many respects since, for so a long time ago.
Many of our readers may not know it but as a young child, I have for many decades savored watching the sun set from the same spot where the clean-up drive began.
Taking a walk along Roxas boulevard (then known as Dewey Blvd., after American Admiral George Dewey) up to the beach resorts in Pasay and Paranaque was already a big deal.
Many tourists – mostly Americans – were themselves taking those long walks because the weather was good and the breeze from the bay was cool as the sun quietly bids the day goodbye in the horizon.
Wow, that is why Philippine postcards then featured as a tourist come-on the world famous “sunset at Manila Bay.”
Again, the same idiots reappeared when PRRD ordered a thorough clean-up of the area that has, for years, become the dumping ground of trash and debris of any kind.
Will the positive yield to the negative?
This is where political will arises, combining itself with the positive mindset that results to progress. And productivity. And unity.
In today’s age and era, we need a leader whose political will does not bend to the whims of the political times and to the caprices of politicians.
As is often said and observed, desperate times need desperate measures.
If the people collectively want positive change to happen NOW, they must support the incumbent government to the hilt because this administration is instituting change however popular the change can be.
Political will plus positive mindset is the antithesis of the status quo.
The idiots are following the idiotic status quo being defended by idiots who benefitted greatly from the status quo.
Who wants to be an idiot?
The status quo had always had a bad connotation, mind you.
That is why CHANGE had to come.
Change has been chasing the status quo no end, to try and put an end to its debilitating effect.
The paradox of life is that while we all condemn the status quo as evil and degenerative, many of our leaders – from yesterday until today – are still masquerading as pro-change but they are not.
We are still a blessed nation because God, in His infinite wisdom, destined an unknown leader from a small, remote city to become our President.
This, despite all the odds.
Ah (sigh). I wish the millions of millennial children and youth will understand what PRRD is doing for the country despite the odds and the tide of obstructive criticisms of a few disgruntled sectors.
Whatever this means, I quote the late French philosopher and social theoretician, Michel Foucault, who wrote in Discipline and Punish: “The soul is the effect and instrument of a political anatomy; the soul is the prison of the body.” (Email your feedback to fredlumba@yahoo.com.) Lamentations 3:58-59: “O, Lord, you took up my case; you redeemed my life. You have seen, O Lord, the wrong done to me. Uphold my case!” GOD BLESS THE PHILIPPINES!
