Patriotism of Today

   

     After the vast changes that had occurred in our world, everything seems to evolve. People's principles changed big deal. Especially us, Pilipinos. Some decades ago, Filipinos were in hunger for freedom. They wanted change; to create something and love their own. They call it patriotism, nationalism -- the love for our own country. Now, reflect on Filipinos. We are now labeled as great imitators. Our countrymen tend to give more importance to the trending fashion, technologies and lifestyles of other countries than treasure the freedom we had for many years.

   According to Ramon Hormillo, a freelance photographer, "the country is at war at himself." Yes. A bitter fact we Pilipinos should know. We don't give much care to our country, no loyalty. We became proud Pilipinos only when there are certain countrymen who gave honor and pride to the country. We love our nation because of Pacquiao, Lea Salonga, Nicole Scherzinger, Allan Pineda, Vanessa Hudgens, Bruno Mars and etc. We are not proud Pilipinos because of our nation; the blood, the tears and the life wasted for a freedom of our own country.

     It is very ironic knowing that our fellow countrymen value our nation less. Give more attention to other countries and nourishing other foreign lifestyles. For the generation of today, it is cooler to give more attention to other industrialized country. Can we make the efforts of our ancestors be in vain? We are once obliged. We serve foreign countries by force, and now we are willing subject in imitating, idolizing others.

  

  The government says we are rising. The economy is slowly awakening. But why do Pilipinos make it very heavy for it to fall again? Let us all wake up. Our life belongs to the culture and nation we are in. not foreign cultures. We should be proud because our heroes before sacrificed their life for us to nourish the freedom we have now. Live life to the fullest as Pilipinos, by blood, by culture and by language.