Cathartic Voice ( thoughts of reality )

Pages of the newspaper for me is gradually becoming an ordinary blank sheet of papers, for as time elapse, I tend to skip pages of it and not care at all on what’s written. It’s pathetic to read all the written words printed in that lousy-smelling-paper. Same name, same faces, same issues and yet melioration is still out of sight. You cannot blame people of losing interest in this ill-natured land and what’s more fatal is when the youth whose the heir of this nation grew tired and in the end become part of the problem as well in the future.

When we are young and hopeful we envision prosperity. We have a tight attachment on what we want to be and whose role we wanna play in the society that’s soon ours. Sadly, every hope we have had in the beginning gradually loses on the process of reaching it.

Ask a child what he/she wants to be when they grew up, majority of the response is to be a doctor, a lawyer and/or a teacher. When asked why, they tend to throw an answer “to help the poor”, “to serve the country” and the list goes on. I believe somewhat this words appears in the clouds of our dreams. Times when we all think the ideals the society needed. Times when we are still free to have a dream, and times when we don’t have a clue how is the process of reaching that additional salutation in our names.

It is only that when we are matured enough to know that we are able to understand that hard work will not be enough to fulfill your early desires. You will find yourself seated in an exhausted-overcrowded classroom, given thorn-out-useless books, and provided with mediocre academic standards for you to reckon the reality of pursuing that dream. By this time, your hope is in lesser opacity, your State’s trust becomes State mishap. It is when you have marched down that commencement exercise in high school and grew closer to your goal, will be the time for you to reckon that you are indeed seemly getting far in your desired destination.

Status Check: By this time full trust to the state vanishes, you are all alone in your struggle. At this point in time, we are only left with two possible role in the future, first, think of how we are going to surpass this poverty that is eating us; second, please refer to the first account.

Well, basically it is the present reality that we are in. It is when thinking of public and/or other people will be the dumbest thing to do. It is when we are growing more self-centered and thinking first hand on where we will get money to feed our hungry stomach, and not thinking on how you can help other people who are abused, who are sick or those who can’t read.

On the other hand, some seems to put that dream into reality. They really become doctors, lawyers…earned additional salutation; Phd’s, Atty’s, MD’s etc. Some become known; Politicians, maybe. But sadly, they are now part of the system which is what they are fighting for earlier. Who can blame them? After surpassing that arduous process, bunch of money to supply education, nights of hard work and lot’s of memorization, who are they now to think of other people? It’s when they have gotten that degree and job is the time for them to take all the pay back. It’s their time to supply adequate money to their stomach and take more and more just a reward.

That’s how the cycle goes. They are the one whose face and names are printed all over the newspaper. it’s them we loathe as of the moment…as I said, AS OF THE MOMENT.

~ by Dyepri Budoy on July 15, 2008.