THE GAME OF THE DEVIL

Today, May 10, 2010, was the chosen date for all qualified Filipino voters to participate in the devil’s game and the day to decide whom the final owners of seats would be to run the house of sworn statements made to be broken. 

Promises and allusions have already been publicized since December 2009 like ending poverty. Who could really end poverty? Tunay na mahirap. Who is really a true mahirap? A true friend. Is there really a true friend when playing the devil’s game? Many jobs will be opened. Questionable? Is it so easy? In reality, kailangan pa ang basbas ng ninong o ninang (na politiko) eh before you get a job. If you don’t have that what they call, “The Evil’s Plus Factor!”  it is very difficult to land a deserving job or get promoted in the government even if your credentials speak so well. A true servant. Yes, a true servant of greed, fame, deceit and gory.

At this very hour, as casting of votes are going on, treacheries and some more treacheries are rising above the scale, and lives, be they innocents or partakers, are expected to be sacrificed in the name of the game. And yes, this is the devil’s game!

I did take my part in the game this morning putting my trust to those imps I know though are lesser evils.

WHY DO THE POOR GET POORER AND THE RICH GET RICHER?

Many times when I get locked into an underprivileged situation, I usually drop down to a seat and ask the same question to the air around me. I was born in a poor family in a poor province in a poor Philippines so I know very much how it is to be so materially poor.

Watching or thinking about the rich-poor gap here in our very dear Philippines, I generally arrive to several answers some of course are just hypothetical. However, one reality is that when you go to the poor and do actually listen to them talk, they talk about money, money, money, that they want money or that they do not have money, and for some they want this and that new gadget/s, new thing/s, and getting rich overnight. But the problem is: They refuse to work hard! If they want work, they want one that promises big returns of a small investment. Because of that money that they direly want to get hold of, they invest in gamble games. Jueteng, lotto, cockfighting, and little casinos to name a few are hotcakes on the streets promising them lumps of money. If not, they pounce on numerous loans without wise plans of ventures treading them more heavily into debts.

 Both the poor and the rich are given an EQUAL PRIVILEGE of spending 24 hours a day with what they like. But what do you observe? If not talking about money, the poor people can afford to just sit down the whole afternoon busy doing nothing but tsismis or playing tong-its. On the other hand, if you listen to the rich people talk, they talk about work and so much work to be done, ideas and other opportunities for work.

These situations are just among the few answers to the question above but if these lifestyles were slowly corrected then would contribute a lot to the closing of the burgeoning gap between the rich and the poor - Lifestyle Discipline – and it still requires hard work.