Die to See the Light

The present political climate is densely smogged. Its air intensely charged. Both sides are fighting for morsels and crumbs where the victor gets the spoils and the vanquished, death.

What makes this so much more odious and terrible is that the pieces and morsels that they're collecting are the bits and pieces of our heart and soul. It may sound ominously dramatic to say that at stake in this fight is our salvation but it really is.

For if we should yield to the old order that's now clawing itself back to be on top, we lose the one chance we have to doff the rotten and the foul from our politics.

For if we should believe once more in the old order that's being peddled akin to the way they peddled narcotics to curious teenagers, we get pulled back into the abysmal world where oligarchs step on the backs of the people just to enjoy the Sun's warmth.

The road ahead is treacherously steep. The fight, hard and bloody. The alternative is a quick and easy return to the old system.

Sometimes it pains me to think that instead of focusing and directing all his efforts at forging this new path for the country, the president has to spend precious time and resources to fend off attacks from the opposition. Those are time and resources that could otherwise be spent for the betterment of Filipino lives.

As arduous as the task before us is, I encourage those who see the value in this new government to move forward, continue your support and carry on.

Effort does not guarantee success. It never does. But what it offers is a chance, aye, an iota of a fighting shot as in Plato's Allegory Of The Cave, to emerge from darkness into the light. That is, fortunately or unfortunately, all that anyone can hope for.

In the words of Ayn Rand through the character Galt, "Should you die without reaching full sunlight, you will die on a level touched by one of its rays."

That, to me, to you, is as fair a chance as we can ever hope to get.

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