Funny how people rally on the streets screaming to oust their government officials for an unwanted governance of poor performance, funny how people scream at the top of their lungs because of hunger and poverty just because the government cannot give them what they asked and funny how people scrutinize corruption when they themselves do it even on a daily basis.

But then, why is still corruption prevalent? Why is it that these government officials are corrupt? Has anyone thought about this before he/she marched to the government offices? One concrete reason is that, they had to since the people pushed them too. During election campaigns, people expect from their candidates to give them something, people expect from their officials to make their roads concrete, to install basketball courts for their barangay, to give them medicine and even relief goods even if they are not yet in office. And where do we expect them to get the funds to support these people’s pleas? They are not yet in position but they are already compelled to do it, win or lose, they already spent much. So, when they are already in office, what do they do? They get very busy just to regain what they spent during the campaign period.

It is even ironic that people expect their congressmen to build roads, public services, medical missions, feeding programs and the like when their sole purpose in the office is to formulate laws that will safeguard their constituents. But officials who do their duty are not recognized by the people, lest they are only labeled as corrupt since no projects are visible for the people to see.

Why did I mention that even those who are not government officials still are corrupt? Easy, for a child with younger siblings, exercise of “maturity rule” can be a very corrupt way, or how about bringing office supplies for household consumptions like writing papers, ballpoint pens and the like for those who are already working? Or how about asking more from your parents what you really need or what is required for school projects?
So, if I ask you now, aren’t you corrupt too? Do you have the right to march up to the gates of the government offices just to scream that corrupt officials should resign? Think again. I myself is guilty of such.

How many of us have these things in our homes? Computers, laptops, cellular phones, iPods, digital cameras, PSPs, vacuum cleaners, air conditioners, microwave ovens and the like? These and a lot more have made people live a very comfortable life nowadays. School papers and research works can be done overnight, cleaning is so fast and easy, communicating with others is a lot better, cooking is hassle free and more conveniences that make us too lazy to do hard work and labor.

When our teacher asked us to do two scientific papers handwritten, I was thinking how on earth can I do that? I was always complaining to her asking for some consideration because I think it was not possible but I had no choice, and fortunately, I was still able to make the lab scientific papers. Then I realized how technology was making me a lot lazier than before. Way back then, I used to do manual laundry but now, I use the washing machine. Before, I have to cut, slice and season whenever I cook food, now, I can serve dinner in an instant without the cutting and slicing. Even calling someone required me to look for a phone booth and make sure that the person I need to contact is at standby waiting for my call, now, I just have to dial the number and I am directly connected. Boredom is not a problem anymore since there are a lot of electronic games that will surely entertain me not unlike before that boredom can only be solved through sleep.

With the technology the world today have, people are getting lazier than ever, if not, more busy since efficiency has gone up, people now are expected to finish more paper works with the help of the computers. They have to finish additional jobs now since machines have done a part of what people are supposed to do. This is true especially if you are in a working environment. Maybe I was partly wrong that technology makes people more lazy. Technology rather change peoples’ ways of life, it can make you lazy, or it can make you very much stressed.

Funny how happiness can be temporary. How bliss can turn into sadness. How smiles can turn into frown, and how love can turn into a feeling of coldness. For once, people find love out of nowhere and be happy for a while, then everything vanishes into thin air.

Personally I don’t know what I am saying but the way I see it, things are happen because they are bound to happen. People come and go, some will stay while others just pass by. There are a lot of people who influence us so much that somehow, at one point of our life, we change. But there are those who have been with us for a very long time yet we see no difference in ourselves or even in theirs. It is a matter of perspective, how people will try to understand and accept one another. But I don’t know, maybe I’m just one of the many people out there who do not know what to do unless the situation happened already.

I had failed relationships, those that left a mark and a deep wound that even up to now, I still cannot heal. But this is part of life and love as many people say, I just have to let time heal everything and heal myself. The problem is that, the more I try to heal myself, the deeper the wounds become. Memories don’t change, and somehow, those happy memories become the knives that keeps on hurting us, stabbing us, making us bleed to death. I hope that I run out of blood so that in the end, it would hurt anymore.

When you love, you give it your best shot, and let go of the past, in my case, letting go of the past is a long way for me. I just hope love can wait, wait for me.