New Year, Same Problems,
New Challenges, New Hope
Warm, patriotic greetings.
This note bid greetings in this start of a new year.
For the fact that this 2024 will be as same as that of last and past years, expect same problems to address and new challenges to face with. However, this note also wishes for everyone’s freedom and pursuit of happiness, as well as success in its courageous struggle for the independence of a land that’s called home.
How come this note said so- of facing same problems and new challenges this 2024? In a country that’s in a still-continuing past would say that existing problems trumps the establishment’s presentation- that even those who thought there will be changes realised they themselves being mislead- landlessness remains an issue, so is low wages, unjust working conditions, high cost of living, corruption, and vassalage to overlords.
Quite true enough knowing that these problems hinder a nation’s development the way rice hoarders creating artificial scarcity in the middle of a rice crisis. People worked hard to improve their standard of living, but to see the realities of exploitation, mismanagement, and injustice finds messages from the government remain as motherhood statements, if not hyperboles. True enough to call Filipinos to contribute to the future of the country, embody the spirit of solidarity through acts of kindness, volunteerism, and compassion, so is to seek truth from facts and to assert just calls, if not push actions to counter societal ills and promote true social justice and lasting peace.
But regardless of these there’s hope in a nation that’s promising to have a place in the sun. As any other year, people, in carrying such hopes and aspirations, should plough, worke, learn, build and fight for a nation in fulfill such dreams of a just and progressive society.