"Ma! Pa! LOOK Here!"

“Ma! Pa! Look here!”

    At the age of an adult, with the responsibilities and the obligations that come along with it; people in the given situation-or predicament- would occasionally turn their mind’s eye back to the days when they enjoyed the carefree life of a child: nothing significant to do or accomplish except what they themselves considered relevant; a few irritating home works and assignments; perhaps some ‘vengeance’ on a playmate who, the day before, may have turned out the victor in some conjured game wherein foul play was the method undertaken for his designation as winner.

     Adults and elders usually do not make a ‘big thing’ nor treat the woes of the youth as they threat their own. One child, wronged by another, would most probably get the same admonishment as his offender. “Who cares who’s supposed to be ‘it’?”, the usual mom, dad, or guardian will usually be of the opinion; when a toddler approaches with a mound of specifics and boisterously tearful reports; an arm extended and a finger pointed at another peer who transformed from friend to foe.

    This ‘disregard’, however, does not sit and remain as the frustration of lads and lasses in their ages of innocence. The act of giving no importance to another individual is not, to be fair, not only committed by the indifferent elders to the youths. It is an act, or a fault, which is distinctive of persons in authority.

    Is this not a reality which residents in certain disregarded community experience? In the Philippines, a number of the plebeian, underdeveloped, or semi-rural localities have individuals raising charges or demands against their neighbors for some reason or another; and the known authorities-‘the barangays’ do nothing about it, except feign the task of taking down a report. Bring the unfair billings of a landlord to the attention of some higher authority; and the response will be a pile of reassurances, as a parent fixed on calculating his tax return; repeating the word “yes” to his child, emphasizing how the next door neighbor’s offspring tagged him unfairly.

    Some people in the world might even say the same of the Lord: the rewards and the vengeance taking too long to come to reality; after all the prayers and entreaty. But spiritual beings are not in the level of humans to interact with hence perhaps the message will have to take longer than usual. Still, a COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF is of flesh and blood. A head of state is someone that can understand the language of the masses. So at present, the Filipinos are crying out-as children telling on a culprit-to their president; to act on the previous subject regarding the slaughter of SAF soldiers. Is it not frustrating when people in authority, parents or presidents alike, merely raise their hands and attempt to placate the people with empty words?

    Finding facts and finding fault is not exactly “retaliating” or “punishing”.

    God drowned the Egyptians billions of centuries ago after they wronged the Jews. Perhaps it is time for this lone Asian Christian nation to have someone in authority who can-and who cares-to raise columns of water and bring fire from the skies as gestures of taking the Filipinos seriously and not as simple kids playing hopscotch.