Dark Clouds

“DARK CLOUDS”

Looking at the view of Cebu at a distance in Mactan Island coastal areas fronting the port area at daytime seemingly delights the mind as if development is at its reach at the Metropolitan. The infrastructures are as high as the grandeur skyscrapers already in Makati with the outlining South Reclamation Project to the on-going North Reclamation development of more business establishments. Delightful sight definitely, until it rained. The rain came so sudden that the site vanished and only dark clouds can be seen. The delight vanished too. Imagining, it relates a very familiar feeling nowadays.

Many have felt that the presence of these giant buildings and spectacular lights and colorful lifestyles determines our boost. Getting along and being amused by these till our pockets run dry. On one hand, one’s mind can’t help but wonder, do the majority of the Filipino people amidst this gaining capital-based growth are doing the same? Or the contrary?

At this time, no sign of relief is up for grabs. News and the realities have brought a scare already on the unending increase of the prices of basic commodities: fuel reaching not lower than Php70/liter until the end of the month, Php8 minimum fare increasing on less than a month basis, rice as our staple food is skyrocketing at Php35-49/kilo, tuition fees are not lowering either at 7-11% increase this school year yet only a feet-dragging Php17 increase on the wage.

FOOD, JOBS, SECURITY, JUSTICE AND FREEDOM have become a non-issue. Capital Investment has become the drive. What has become of some? More so, what has become of our Government? Indeed, history teaches us that how the Republic of the Philippines was first formed, organized and essentially was, remained until now, at the allegiance to the “democracy” propagated by the USA.

Comparatively, dark clouds indeed, vanishing whatever beautiful sights we see daily.

Perhaps this rain that has become a storm heads us to reflect unto things. The reflection we often times can’t and don’t have the luxury because of the rat-race we are into, the rat-race of survival. But do we have to race? Living is not all of surviving or merely existing, it is caring, it is involving.

Come to think and act on it, after all that is what keeps us human unless we refuse to be one. Stand against the storm: Get informed, Search for the truth and break free from the shackles of uncertainties and rage against the dying of the light.

“Rage against the Dying of the Light”: A Walk for a Cause Campaign for the Concern for Food, Jobs, Security, Justice and Freedom
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