7,107 Reasons Why We Keep Smiling

              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.