the hype over EDSA commemoration
Things are quite normal here in our office although we are just near where the action is happening. I really dont know if it’s chaotic now in Ayala Ave. I still cant hear any helicopters hovering around the area like years ago when Magdalo mutiny happened at Oakwood. (edited 416pm, helicopters are heard flying over Makati by now…re-edited at 744pm, Ayala Ave is virtually unpassable, police troops have been deployed to disperse rallyists)
Anyway, the national state of emergency, the rallies, and the arrest of Inquirer columnist Randy David seem surreal for me… like they are happening on the other side of the world. I dont know if I have grown too indifferent about these kind of things. That reminded me, last year, miko and I were talking about the Independence day celeb… basta parang naghahanap ata sya ng fireworks display to mark the occasion… and I think I said, i dont really care. It’s sad that I find myself saying that - I really dont care.
So with everything happening right now, do I still feel the same indifference?
During my last year in college, EDSA II happened… and that stirred me to do my part as a citizen of this country. I believed in EDSA II’s cause, I believed that things will be better once Erap will be ousted and a leader with a vision is installed… I believed that from that demonstrations, our country will finally go somewhere. Unfortunately, it still went nowhere as after we put on a united front, people especially those who are power-hungry and selfish just move to promote their own causes. I dont mean the government officials per se, most of us are selfish too because we dont do anything to contribute to the development of our country. We cant even follow simple rules and regulations. (even I is guilty of such actions, tsk tsk) We love to put the blame entirely on the government… and if we are discontented, we think of holding mass rallies that people power is abused to death.
I dont have any suggestion, much more say anything brilliant or enlightening… I am just saddened to see what has become of us… all of us… most of all to what I have become, indifferent to the significance of EDSA and Independence Day… and everything that is happening right now.
