PERA NG MGA TAO

Ang isang katotohanan na masakit tanggapin ay ang malaman mong niloloko ka, niyuyurakan ang iyong pagkatao, at harap-harapan kang winawalanghiya.  Ang mga taong pinagkatiwalaan at pinaniwalaan mong mag-aalaga sa iyo at paglilingkuran ka ay sila palang sasaksakin sa iyo sa talikuran.  Ganito ang nararamdaman ng mga taong-bayan sa iskandalo ng PDAF: Priority Development Assistance Fund o mas kiala sa tawag na pork barrel (pondong pampulitika).

Bilyong halaga ang pinaguusapang ninakaw sa kaban ng bayan.  Pera ng bayan na nanggaling sa mas nakararaming mga mahihirap na Pilipino, pera na nanggaling sa mga ibinayad na buwis ng mga mamamayan.  Perang inipon sa kaban ng bayan para pangtustos sa mga gastusin ng bayan at para sa mga pangangailangan ng taong-bayan, pagkatapos ay malalaman mo lang na ginagamit ng ilang tao sa pansariling pangangailangan at luho.  Masakit kapag nalaman mo na nagpapakahirap kang kitain ang barya-barya mong suweldo, na sa ayaw at sa gusto mo ay babawasan ng buwis para sa gobyerno at pagkatapos ay napupunta pala sa bulsa ng ibang tao na mas nakakariwasa sa buhay na iyong pinagkatiwalaan.  Paano mawawala ang masamang pagkakakilala mo sa gobyerno at sa mga politoko kung lagi na lang laman ng balita ang kanilang korapsiyon na ginagawa?

Magtataka ka pa ba kung bakit walang nangyayari sa ating bayan?  Ang daming proyekto para sa ikagaganda ng ating bayan at pinaglalaanan ng pera pero walang napupuntahang konkretong proyekto.  Ang daming pera ng bayan, ang taunang budget na umaabot ng bilyon ay wala namang pangunahing panggagalingan kundi sa mga ibinabayad ng taong-bayan mula sa napakaraming buwis.   Bakit hindi malutas ang napakatagal ng problema sa baha bagamat mayroong nakalaan na pera dito na mula sa flood tax?   Bakit hindi nabibigyan ng kaukulang biyaya ang mga sundalo at kapulisan?  Bakit hindi gumaganda ang sektor ng agrikultura?  Bakit hindi umaaangat ang kalidad ng buhay ng mamamayan?  Bakit hindi magawa ng mga ospital ng gobyerno ang magbigay ng magandang serbisyong medikal sa mga mamamayan?  Dahil ang pera na nakalaan para sa mga ito ay ninanakaw lamang.

Mayroon naman palang bilyong piso ang kaban ng bayan pero nakukuha lang ng mga magnanakaw sa halip na sana ay ipinagpagawa na lamang ng maraming silid-aralan na taon-taon ay nagiging problema.  Sana ay ipinangtustos na lamang sa pagpapaunlad ng mga pampublikong ospital bago nanakaw ang bilyong piso.   Nahihirapang kumalap ng pribadong donasyon para maiuwi ang mga Pinoy mula sa Japan ng magkaroon ng pagsabog ng planta ng nukleyar duon pero mayroon naman palang bilyong ninanakaw.  Mayroon naman palang bilyong piso pero bakit hindi magamit upang mapauwi ang mga distress na OFW na nasa Saudi Arabia at napipintong hulihin sa nalalapit na November 2013.  Sana ay nagamit na lang ng gobyerno ang bilyong piso sa mga nasasalanta tuwing may nananalasang bagyo at kalamidad.

Ilang politko na ba ang nadawit sa korapsiyon?  Ilang iskandalo na ang sumambulat sa taong-bayan at ano ang kinahinatnan?  Ilang beses na nating narinig ang mga politiko na nangangakong magaahon sa  hirap ngunit pagkalipas ng ilang panahon ay nagpapayaman na rin.  Ang mga politikong nasangkot sa mga korapsiyon ngunit pagkalipas ng ilang panahon ay nakakandidato pa rin at nakakabalik sa puwesto.  Sa puntong ito ay may pananagutan din ang botante dahil hinahayaan nila na iboto nila ang mga kandidatong nanalo sa maling paraaan.  Kung ang pagkakapanalo ay sa maling paraan nakuha, ano pa ba ang maaasahan mo dito kundi ang gumawa ng mali?  At sa laki ng halagang nauungkat sa mga iskandalo na ito, magtataka ka pa ba kung bakit nagkakandarapa ang mga politiko na kumandidato sa kabila ng napakaliit na suweldo para sa posisyong halal sa gobyerno?  Kung sana’y may pinupuntahan ang mga imbestigasyon, at kung sana ay mabilis na nalilitis agad ang mga may sala, malamang mag-iisip ang mga may balak na gumawa ng korapsiyon.

PERA NG MGA TAO

Ni Alex V. Villamayor

August 26, 2013

CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP

Into relationship is not always being about romantic commitment.   You can into relationship too spiritually, civil, business, of course biologically, and as companion friends.    A friend is into relationship, nothing special although it’s more than usual, and it could be mutual understanding but there is no conformity, and it’s celebration.

It’s three years now and a friend is commemorating it but reminiscing the years of platonic friendship as way of giving importance to the relationship.  Having the 3-year old friendship is quite good but too soon to speak to last forever because there are still more trials that will test the friendship amidst of this difficult world.

Looking back from the start, it was days of uncertain, understanding to acceptance, pretending until sincerity and realism.  From being awkward to ease, vested interest to common plans, and acquaintance and colleagues into friends.  Their friendship has blended and comprehended with each other.  Though it is not all sweet but disputes even existed, friendship prevails on top.

It’s three years now of sharing hard time and good times, giving words to ponder, admitting secrets or uncovering the dark sides and keeping them undisclosed, even exchanging mundane things up to sharing in forming the dreams.  The chatting goes on again and again but never had enough of, never fed up, never run out to talk about.  Everything may look like fool men’s blandishment, but every word spoken went through deep within.

It may be years of shallowness and concupiscence (worldliness) but in these 3 years enclose their most worth remembering moment.  There were high and low with happiness, joy, tears, pain, dreams.  Misunderstanding was there, yet happiest moment was there too.   Three years till then still love to keep stay.

Celebrating Friendship

By Alex V Villamayor

August 15, 2013

BEING SINGLE

Some people are just meant to be single for the rest of their lives.In one point of their lives they planned to be married but it simply did not work.  Some of them had desperately sought partner but they really destined to be unmarried.Or some may think they better off alone, while some have married at very young.  Either ways, these just prove that people will not have same ending in their consequential fate.

Some people are better off as single to achieve their dreams.  Fate makes them more successful and fruitful if they are alone, unattached and undisturbed with their task.  Skeptic people surely will say success is nothing if there is no family of their own to offer the success, but if they are happy being without spouse and offspring who cares then for these skeptic people?

For some, they value solitude, peace and even privacy which they can best achieve through living alone.  It is not really the spontaneity in decision-making that has no restrictions, limitations or boundaries but it is their fear of the responsibilities.  Likewise, it’s not that they do not have affection in children, interest in raising their own family, and inability to commit into relationship but because they have a bigger definition of being a good provider than the general standard of other people.

People may choose to remain single because they are just not interested in getting married at all and they just don't feel the need to be with someone romantically for the rest of their lives.  For someone who knows who they really are inside and they're not going to feel any need to be in a relationship, they can remain single, happy, and live a wonderful and fulfilling life. That’s the essence of life.

There are millions of men and women who have the feeling that marriage is not their life which we should respect them for that.  For whatever reason whether it is by choice or not they preferred to remain single, we need to accept that because it is God’s will.  The problem with other people is that they are so fast, easy and so mean to judge about people who are not marrying as in they are hands on with what is going through with other people.

When learning an old unmarried person, here comes immediately the sarcastic and judgmental people without hesitation will share their harsh thoughts.  There is always a stigma attached to being old yet single.  Some people are simply cruel enough persecuting an unmarried person as homo, broken-hearted, villain, unfortunate, cursed, etcetera which are so unfair.Is it really difficult to understand that there are really men and women in this world who are destined to be alone?  Some people are just simply narrow-minded.

Being single doesn’t make less a man.  There is nothing wrong being a single.  It is not even failure and weakness.  If you feel you lived your life into it’s full circle, then your personality has measured favorably whether you’re married or unmarried.  Greatness and weakness depend on how well you showed your human relationships.In the end, it’s better to be single but well-loved rather than hated and miserable married one.

Being Single

By Alex V. Villamayor

August 6, 2013.