Eighty percent (80%) of the residents of Provident Village came back to their houses and still lives there after all that televised destruction last September 2009.
Who can blame them if that's the only place they call home.
So, as we enter the season of Signal 4 typhoons, my prayers go out to the families receiving the Juan's fury up there in the north and to the brave souls who returned to their homes in Provident Village.
Though they made some adjustments by building a 3rd and a 4th floors, I hope it is high enough because the Marikina River is getting shallower every year and the water will always spill over when the heavy rain comes.
Any engineering mind could see that happening. But I think it is not an engineering thing anymore but of political will. Of good governance. Of pakikikapwa-tao...
Well, this another manifestation of how come we have over 10 million OFWs. The government is overwhelmed with problems because the government of the past did not govern. And we are playing catch-up. The government's good side is neck-deep with work as the government's dark side is waiting to put the blame so that they can have a short-term measure approved and for money to roll in.
As long as the good is in neck-deep, the Filipino citizens will be left to themselves to solve the problems. They will fly way, be an OFW and send money. Or they will build 3rd floors and 4th floors. Both are temporary solution until good governance is restored.
Where is the generation that will sacrifice their young lives so that the next generation will have it better?
When will we see that it is both a burden and a privilege so that when the future generation of Filipino ask why they have it better now than the past, they will see that those who were in the past were awake and was thinking of them even if they knew they will never hear the praise and feel the gratitude...
Lord, I pray...
"... why think like mere men?"
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