Keptquisling’s Weblog

I’ve lived with a false sense of security all my life. I was raised to believe that bad things don’t happen to good people. My rather optimistic perceptions were shattered though, as several bad things happened to me this year. Never in my entire life would I have thought people could be so apathetic, until I’ve experienced the indifference Filipinos have for each other. You could be walking along the street with a gunshot wound, bleeding to death, and no one would turn a head to help you.

It’s not about poverty, or education, this country’s sick. It’s the kind of sickness where one enjoys the site of someone else’s suffering. I suppose three hundred years of religious brainwashing and discrimination would be enough to corrupt even the most sensible of societies, but ours wasn’t firmly rooted in reason to begin with.

I guess, I’m just tired, as I should be after the ridiculous day I had. I wish I just didn’t have to explain my actions all the time. I wish people would just “get it.”