Christmas season is fast-approaching, and so are the sleek hands of pickpockets. Isn’t it ironic that the season of giving is also the season of greed? As the year ends, more and more victims’ hearts are being torn apart by heartless thieves.
What’s more heartbreaking is that the thieves in the country are not only in the form of pickpockets, snatchers, or criminals; they also take the form of leaders and defenders of the country. Some of them would pretend to protect you from harm, but in reality, they are the ones who hurt you, sucking you lifeless. They are like parasites and we’re the live host they need to satisfy their insatiable hunger. They say their obligation is to serve and protect the rights of the Filipinos, but everything comes with a price. Maybe a mansion in Nueva Ecija is a good enough price for your service. Job well done, lives are still in danger.
How about your beloved government officials? Their promise was to give us a better life, more opportunities, and a better country; in other words, everything we rightly deserve. But if we open our eyes, we can clearly see that they’re doing otherwise. Instead of giving everything to their countrymen, they take everything they want. They always say how much they love the poor; then, why not bring homeless people to your palace on your 350-hectare land? Why let them suffer in the polluted streets where they are being smoke-soaked turning them into greasy, rugged creatures?
This country is a wide battlefield, you cannot trust anyone. Even your classmate can be a thief, stealing your answers on a quiz and ending up getting a higher grade than you. If they start cheating at a young age, then how can you be so sure that they wouldn’t do the same when they get older? Imagine this: those very cheaters could become your future policemen, doctors, lawyers, journalists, accountants, businessmen, engineers, and politicians. This is a disgrace to our national heroes who believed that the youth is the hope of the nation.