Nephew

Recently my nephew moved in with us to study here, he's from aklan. i really dont know my nephew that much but i know that he's smart, above average smart. i was curious as to what course he was planning to take so i asked my mother, she told me that he was going to take up nursing... nursing? no disrespect to all the nursing students and nurses out there i know that they are indespensible members of our society, i just thought that a smart guy like my nephew would be leaning on engineering. he is also creative so i thought somewhere in the creative arts. but he would do nursing. i asked my mother "why not engineering?" she was an agriculturist by the way. her simple reply was there is no money in engineering, because there are no jobs for engineers. this remark made me think, are we doomed to be the slaves of money, putting our passion and creativity aside for us to be able to afford the price of commercialism? comfort? security?

I love democracy, i love the freedom, i love the freedom to be able to express my ideas, freedom to choose, to do what i want to do, to go where i want to go. democracy is the only form of government where i could do this, but what is democracy if you have a third world economy? intelligence is being exchanged for financial stability, creativity is swept under the dirty rugs of survival that is a daily requirement for self preservation. "And you wake up to realize, Your standard of living somehow got stuck on survive" - Jewel

Where is this all headed? the youth of the nation, our nations future will all be going abroad to take care of the retired citizens of that country, entertain them, labor for them, all this in exchange so that their children can be like them.

How many years? five? ten? when will this all end, maybe when we are a nation of domestic helpers with a degree, nurses who were doctors, and would be engineers and artist who would become what like the rest of us have become, slaves...

For a free man, being a slave doesn't seem to be impossible or highly unlikely.