I Believed....

All throughout these years I have never liked politics, and the undecipherable terms or wit of politicians. Even during the Marcos era. It is something I couldn’t take in. There’s this disgruntled feelings and disgust every time I heard or read about politics whether in print or the television. Some of them speak as if they ment what they say, or others are maybe trying hard to be one, trained for years trying to look as convincing as they possibly could.

I must say that sometimes I am impressed at how they stand by at what they say. But most of the time, I felt like giving up and losing hope completely of what they can really do to our country and the sweeping changes we all need.

The rich became richer, and the poor became even poorer. There is a constituency and need for change out there and it is pretty sizeable. Like Secretary Puno said in a newspaper recently, as I quote him, “It pains me a lot when I talked politics in the middle of people’s misery”.

Recently, my take on politics has changed tremendously. When Cory Aquino died a few months ago, I saw how people all came together to show respect. For many years now, all I wanted is to see something as big as what I have seen. It can be done, the convergence of people. It moved me, the way it moved me many years ago when Marcos was ousted and overthrown by Cory Aquino.

We Filipinos have been trying so hard to see the light of day, that one day we will be redeem from the corrupt world of politics, even if it entailed a lot of personal and career setbacks along the way. It has always been a battle between good and evil. This has always been the struggle for us, and this time, I have a feeling that the good will prevail.

For some people who do not believed that we can change, this is the time to believe that we can, and that the good and honest but poor candidate will definitely have the chance to win.
Hopefully, the legacy of Ninoy and Cory will live by thru Noynoy and the Filipino people.

I continue to remind myself that,

I believed.