Pakikisama daw
In my class, democracy is mediocre. Communal decisions aren’t made on fair grounds. They are rarely based on logical rationale. Popularity and who-gets-to-vote-what always gets into the picture. Especially pakikisama. The Filipino attitude of pakikisama reveals its ugly face. I hate it. I thought I’ve buried this annoyance in the past, but now I’m annoyed again. (Thanks to this though, I have an idea for my next column in Hilites. No, I’m not the Gunslinger.)
I’m watching the basketball finals game/s tomorrow. I want our juniors team to win. (Even if I’m not fond of basketball, that team still represents the school I currently belong to). But I’m interested at seeing the seniors lose. I don’t really care. I hope they lose, the way my “true blue-blooded” high school classmates have been insulting FEU (what do they care anyway, they’re high school students, that’s not their team), I want to see them lose their faces.
I always often side with the underdogs. That’s why I often always side with my classmates who point out the wrong-doings of the class’ majority. What’s wrong should be wrong. Leave pakikisama out of the picture. We shouldn’t be indebted with any dues of “loyalty”. That loyalty has often been one-sided anyway. It has rarely been absolutely fair. It has always been pakikisama to a certain group in class. It rarely has been the other way around. We owe no one nothing. Bah, utang na loob. That’s another story.
Pagbigyan n’yo na ‘ko. May ilang bagay talaga sa klase na hindi ko talaga sasangayunan. Hindi sa may galit ako sa kahit sinuman sa klase (hindi naman talaga obviously, wala akong kaaway e) pero dahil kung anuman ‘yong pinagtatanggol na ‘yon ay hindi tama sa akin. Give me my own due. Dati n’yo pa dapat alam na iba ang takbo ng isip ko sa karamihan sa inyo. Kung ginagalang ko ang anumang desisyon n’yo, ganun din ang inaasahan kong gagawin n’yo. Kung hindi, naghihiprokrituhan lang tayo dito.
This is weird. I’m not even in the usual hot-seat right now and yet I’m ranting like this. What more.
Victor, you have some serious issues with the class. I think it’s good you vent out your frustrations like this, but you need to talk to someone, anyone about it. Be it your grandmother, mother, father, relative, friend, anyone! It won’t do you any good to leave this lying on your chest.
this is exactly how i vent it. i may be going insane without this journal. anyway, thanks pen. its not that im anrgy, im just annoyed and frustrated with the system.
i think you have some issues you need to discuss… why are you so grumpy and annoyed about other people who tend to live with the spirit of pakikisama…. you shouldn’t be in this world if you don’t want to be included in those who live by the traits…. you will never ever live if you don’t change your attitude… once in a while try to belong.. and don’t be so……
hai.. ganda wha ko msabi.. npadaan lng ako para mag search pero ang ganda basta ganda ng outline tnx xeo!.. GBU
meh. me thinks real pakikisama is fairness in association with everyone and harmony in that association, not picking your group and treating it with high regard than others, that’s just well, not very fair…
but hey - live and let live.