daylights

My country recently experienced one of the most chaotic natural disaster through that Typhoon Ondoy.  Long story short, a lot of people couldn’t get home because they no longer have a home.  A lot of people died and flood, even 5 days later, are present.

A lot of relief operations are happening, one of the strongest is my school.  It’s very heartwarming to see all those people using their precious time in volunteering.  Instead of simply studying or catching up with school requirements, they went and volunteered in relief operations.  The work is very tiring but they do it nevertheless.  A true act of family in the Filipino community.

But, why does it take tragedies to happen before we realize that we are all in this together?  Why does it take a lot of lives, destruction before we begin to realize that we should work together in order to make a change?  Multiplication of loaves can happen in this era where internet is the main source of communication, where we hardly acknowledge our neighbors, where capitalism is everpresent, where greed and money becomes the center of our lives.

Why is it that evil has to happen for good to occur?

Considering though, there wouldn’t be good, a definition of “good” if there is not evil to counter it.  Philosophically thinking, evil is the absence of good, hence it only exist when there is no good.   Hence, evil is not needed for good to exist because it’s definition relies on good and the definition of good does not rely on evil.

Coming back to my main point.  The development of our country can happen if we put our mind to it.  We shouldn’t simply develop our country because something bad happened to it and we need to mend it, but we should make it better even when it is mended.

well of darkness

Today was very difficult for me.  One of our biggest projects was supposed to happen this afternoon, but we had to postpone it due to the bad weather.  It was a very difficult thing to do.  We tried not to postpone it, no one wanted to postpone it, but it needed to happen.  I couldn’t do anything about it.  My officers were looking at me for solutions, and I couldn’t provide any.  It was so difficult.  I should be the ultimate problem solver, but I was not able to solve the problem, so we simply had to postpone it.  I felt so down and helpless.

Since it got postponed, we had to went through all the trouble of making known to all the people involved of the postpone- ment.  We had to contact everyone immediately. All people involved were distrupted.  Everyone, from TV crew to the men of the water station.  It was so hard.

And then, some people are really just, argh.