What’s with the chaos?

Things won’t always go with the way you want them to be. 

Have you ever noticed the news every morning? How about the issues on the newspaper? Or even the things that other people talks about every now and then? Well, me, I’m sick and tired of it all. Kundipatayan, saksakan, kundisaksakan, holdapan, kundipangungurakot, sakitngpulitiko, meron pang lovelifengkungsinosinongtao, anongkasunod? Massacre nanamansaMaguindanao?  Casualtiesngbagongbagyo? Hazing victim? Nawawalangmga journalists?Mga videos sa CCTV camera nanagpapakitangkawalangdisiplinangmgatao? Pagtaasnggasolinatuwing Tuesday?Giyerasaibangbansa? Pag-agawsateritoryong may teritoryo?  O mgaepalnataosamga tarpaulin?

Come on?! What’s with all the chaos? Is this some kind of an action movie or a superhero TV show with a bunch of antagonists and conflicts? Can’t we just live in a peaceful society? Or a more CHILD FRIENDLY SOCIETY?

Our national hero ones said “AngKabataanangPag-asang Bayan.” And now I’m asking, how can we be the hope of our future and of our nation if all the things we see are in complete disaster?

One morning I was watching a show while eating my breakfast, and guess what?! The news was about a woman forced to abort her baby. What followed it was a news about an accident on the road, a salvage victim, and of course the typical hold-up. I exclaimed “Gandangpambungadsaumaga!” that incident gave me a really sudden realization about the situation not just of our country but the situation of the world and things that might happen in the near future.

I fear for the lives of my future children, my grandchildren and the future generations that might experience a hostile, dangerous and chaotic society.

Isn’t it that for you to be able to help someone you should be able to help yourself first, be productive and set something up for yourself? The question is how? Your homes and your schools aren’t enough, YES they affect you primarily, but how about those indirect institutions that affects you, like the mass media? How can you filter and just choose the things that you will absorb, if even you, can’t distinguish right from wrong? From all the events we encounter, it’s hard to say that you are in the right path. 

Time passes, it’s just like in a blink of an eye you are elementary, then another, you are in high school, the next thing you know, you are in college, and then suddenly you have your own family. Unknowingly you are aging along with the changes of the world you are in, along with disarray. You are moving quickly in the timeline like an F1 racer trying to get to the finish line. So while you still have enough gasoline, take the opportunity to shift gears.

You must make sure that the future will be as friendly as a tourist guide to the next generation and not as chaotic as the world we are living right now.