Rain or
shine, dusk it is or maybe dawn, in good times or in bad. Filipino people will
always find a way to laugh things out. Even in the most helpless days, the
parade of smiling Filipinos will always serve as the luminous light at the end
of this long tunnel we call life.
The
truth is that it really doesn’t matter how heavy a day might be for a person or
how empty his pockets were or like how the world simply seems turned its back
on you as long as you’re a citizen of the Pearl of East or rather have spoken
to any natives of our 7,107 islands of this country because you’ll never leave
your dilemma unsolved. Whether it is being worked hard or just passed you
unconsciously \, -consequently you’ll get out of your problem right away. And
what’s the good thing about it is that for Filipinos, these plains pieces of
magical cure come naturally among all of us. Who knew that our enchanting and
priceless smiles could move a nation forward and likewise will help us to build
a trademark alone?
Impressive
isn’t? But that is just a piece of our countless and marvelous traits that
shall be explored thoroughly later. As what
Since our
effortless cheerful disposition comes from within, Filipino smile hails as our
strong alliance where hope seems a
little selfish to be overlooked. In the aftermath of the long habagat earlier this month, we are once
again faced with the daunting challenge of getting our acts together and
bringing solutions to problems that have beset us every time we are lashed by
calamities yet here we all are, smiling and standing still. –Stronger than
ever. As if the tragedy happened in a
millisecond and affected no one but just the things that we own. We are who we
are because of who we are and that’s what makes us unique.
In almost
every scenario, there will never be a chance that you wouldn’t give proper
attention to the culture that makes Filipinos different. I remember this on
particular scene in our local drama film which showed the main character having
a time on her own and reminiscing a lonely moment of hers in the past. Then
suddenly her roommate started to play a loud music that instantly annoyed the
said person. Amidst her sentimental mode she screamed at her roommate
announcing her infuriation and this goes like “Ano ba naman yan? Kitan mong
nag-eemo ako dito tapos magrara-rakrakan ka dyan?!’’ (What’s this? You know
that I’m having a hard time here yet you’re beating in a different drum.)
But the
thing is that we find laughter in almost all of our flaws, it includes our own
ignorance about basic things, mispronunciations, misfortunes and our
imperfections, which normally is something that is often disregarded in
conversations. For a lot of people,
addressing your mistakes and making it as the peak of the fun is hard,
devastating rather for some but hey, why hide all your undesirable traits when
they are that makes you who you are? Millions of other is also experiencing
that same crisis so why hide it doesn’t it?
To speak
the truth, these cases aren’t the type that requires the talking and
explanations for the norm. But since we are tackling and assuming Filipinos are
somebody that are worth looking forward to, yes.. all of these needs proper
credits to justify them. A lot of more still that likewise needs to be talked
since this roots to our very own culture that reflects our lives. Our lives as
one nation with that priceless smile.
And maybe
after this week’s blue moon, on the final day of what has been a momentous
month, - through storms and floods and
deaths of good men, the spectacle of terrific Filipinos will rise once again
and show the world why we still have thousands of reasons to smile.
