Earlier this year I had a chance to chat with my friend from elementary school bcak in the Philippines. Her name was Ellen, she used to be my close friend. So we chat for a while then we got to point where she asked me what are my plans after highschool? which school would I attend for college?

After college of course I would love to attend a University, I just don't know yet which one to take, either Architecture, Law, Political Science, Journalism, or Fine Arts. Actually I wanted to take all of them at the same time but obviuosly I can't. So I told her that I would love to enter the University of the Philippines in DIliman. But since no one here in U.S. supports me with this, It would be impossible for me to attend UP DIliman. Anyway I also wanted to attend Hatvard University hehe. But even though I wasn't able to study in UP I would still retrun to the Philippines and serve my nation and my people to the best of my abilities. When she heared about this, she was like "What the @$?*?,are you nuts? you are are already in the world's most powerful country and already have the opportunity to live a stable life,Didn't you know that a lot of Filipinos are struggling to get where yiu are right now and yet you are willing to give it all up and return to the Philippines." I told her no matter what will happen to me, I'll still end up serving my country and my people. Then she replied " with all the corruption in our country,why would you serve a country where even her own citizens does not have trust to their government." Then I told her "that's exactly me reason to serve our country, to help bring positive changes."

I'm not saying that our country needs me, but  my point is that our country needs people like me or better than me to serve her and her people honestly. She later told me that she at first also wanted to serve our country, but beacuse of a rising cost of living and growing ppoverty, she couldn't decide f she would  prioritize the country first rather than her family's future. She also promised me that wether she would end up an immigrant or a citizen to another nation she would still find a way to help our motherland.  She even joked that she would make her future children to study in the US but will return to the Philippines and serve the Filipno people.

Ever since I was young, serving my country had been my greatest dream. I may never be the best one serve my country, but I would always be serving my country to the best that I can.

I always get pisted off whenever I hear a Filipino would say that the Philippines is a hopeless nation to overcome  all her current crisis, both social, political and economical and once again be one of Asia's most progressive nation. Oh well I want to tell them that they are definitely wrong. If only the Filipinos would learn from the mistakes of the past and all together march for a brighter future, nothing is impossible. We've been surviving worst things in the past, then why not this time? many filipinos are blaming the Government for not doing a good job. I admit I couldn't blame them from blaming the government, well its obvious that they are not doing a good job as they promised during the campaign. But think first if you didn't vote them would they be in thier postions right now? I f you only voted wisely would we suffer such things? and for the TRAPOS! (TRAditional POliticians) would you please serve the people who put you in power and the nation that gave birth to you rather than serving your pockets first!