Kahit exams, I can’t very well pass up a good opportunity to bitch against this now-infamous post here, can I?
I apparently have to “realize my responsibility to society” by listening to discontent activists blather about God-knows-what – these are the people, she says, who “actually really care about what is happening.” But that’s not what gets everybody’s goat; listen to her repeatedly blame the institution she was brought up in:
Pisay did not give enough emphasis on the notion of serving the people. Pisay did not show the students that money is not everything. Pisay basically did not introduce us to the notion that we have the responsibility of enacting change in the flawed system in our country. Pisay was like a prison for me. Inside, I lived in a place that wanted to meet perfection. I was shielded from public issues that should have been introduced to us.
For me this is such an anal-retentive post because it imposes a “responsibility of enacting change” and demands an “active awareness of public issues.” I’m wondering why this person assumes that students like me have to care. If I were to take an active stand in politics or social issues, it would be my prerogative. If I were to do something for the greater good of the nation, it would be my call. Yes, I am apathetic, and yes, I’d rather go to a mall than to a rally. AND I’M PROUD OF THAT FACT. I’m proud that I am living my life as a 16 year-old and that I don’t waste the last days of my youth trying to find the panacea to the “public issues” she loves talking about so much. The moment I turn 18, I’ll start voting and reaching out to people, but activism and activists can just take their banner and streamer-wrapped heads and shove it somewhere for all I care. I can love my country without fucking up the system, and I’ll keep things that way.
And as for blaming our dear old school/system, it wouldn’t really matter if I had ended up in Pisay, or stayed in Claret, or (god forbid) gone to Ateneo HS; my say on the matter would be the same. (Only I’d probably not have said anything at all if I wasn’t Pisay, but meh.)
