Honesty for us Filipinos

If you search for tenderness
it isn't hard to find.
You can have the love you need to live.
But if you look for truthfulness
You might just as well be blind.
It always seems to be so hard to give.
Honesty is such a lonely word.
Everyone is so untrue.
Honesty is hardly ever heard
I totally agree with the lyrics of this song. Last week, I was in my terrace and I saw our neighbor who is running for a barangay position giving a bunch of 20 pesos to be distributed that day, Barangay election day. I begun to ponder, why is it that people will go to this extent to win imagine a barangay position? Does this position offer lots of money? Few years ago, my dad is earning P1,200 a month for the same position. Well even if it`s already 5,000 per month now, is it all worth it? In the news, there are lots of reports on vote buying and even hurting each other for a barangay position from the all over the country. What happened to all of us? Nobody will buy votes if none of us will sell.
                This only reveals a sad truth. Most of us are already corrupt.   Being a mother, I can`t help but worry what will happen to the next generation of leaders, professionals or individuals per se. Honesty is really a lonely word.  And its hardly ever heard. Billy Joel is right.

 

1 comment:

  1. That's true doc! But, as the Comelec says, it's very difficult to prove.

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