If life gives you lemons...

The times are rough. I could actually say it blows. It blows so hard that it sucks. It's getting harder to get by. Not to mention that humanity is deteriorating. It is the time I call "THE GREED AGE." Greed has taken over. Enough is never enough. If life gives you lemons, you make lemonade and sell it by the glass. If life gives you weed, you cut it and sell it by the bag. Everyone sees everything as profits.. Everyone is replacing the conventional pronouns with ones that is needed by their greedy principles. "He," "she," and "it" are replaced with "asset," "liability" and "profit". For big companies and corporations, the "Christmas season" as a time of giving is seen as an opportunity to promote public relations for more patrons and more profit. Everyone today is looking out for number one. It's all work for my needs. Sweat to provide for family. Toil for success. Do everything with everything life has given to be the best. People think that what life has given them is for them to be great. If life gives you lemons, right? A certain someone told me a slightly modified motto. "If life gives you lemons, add vodka, salt and chill." It's kind of funny but would be better for humanity. Let us drop the "make lemonade" part and just ring everybody up for a house party.

We could be heroes.

Our heroes must be turning in their graves. The principles that they fought and died for, the same principles that became the foundation of this republic is now just a thought. An insignificant speck in the minds of today's generation. The eyes that Jose Rizal's work has opened are now wide shut. Ears that reverberated with the cry of Pugad Lawin are hearing without listening. This once proud people built on activism is now passive, blind, deaf and dumb. Rizal gave his life for equality. He fought for the Filipino to be known as equals by any other nation. now the Philippines is one of the most corrupt countries. The Filipinos ignore this fact and moves on thinking that if they are not bleeding they would not fight back. Little do they know that we are being milked by an illegitimate president reducing our stature just like Spain has done long ago. Bonifacio fought for freedom, for democracy. But what is happening now? An illegitimate president is destroying our democracy, spitting in the face of this once proud nation. And we just smile and not mind it. The Philippines has a new oppressor replacing the Japanese, the Spaniards and the Marcos rule. She goes by the name of Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo. She looks and talks like us. Maybe that is why we become passive. But I tell you, my fellow Filipinos, Race is not the enemy, it is the principle of the person and the persons personal agenda. The idea that she is a Filipino is but an idea. The Fact that she is a vessel of tyranny is a fact. Our veins flow with the blood of activism. Our history is paved by it. Our whole becoming is because our ancestors stood up and fought against terrorism. They died fighting for liberty, justice and peace. This country, our country, became a republic because we fought for independence, democracy and humanity. This whole nation was because of great individuals, heroes, who would not ignore injustice and corruption. The Filipino is Filipino because we would not take oppression lying down. Look at our history. EDSA revolution, propaganda movement, HUKBALAHAP, kataastaasang, kagalanggalangang katipunan ng mga anak ng bayan, magdalo and many others have fought for what is right and what is for the Filipino nation. We should be fighting for these same things regardless of who or what the tyrant seems to be. I am not calling out for a revolution, (though it is badly needed) but I am calling for consciousness. Filipinos! Open your eyes! You are being cheated out of your rights and your motherland. I am not pointing out that we should be taking to the streets,(though it is not such a bad idea) but I am pointing out the lack of wanting to. What bothers me most is the principles of heroes are being studied in school, colleges and universities but somehow, the seeds are not growing in the minds. These oppressions have happened before, Why are we not screaming at the top of our lungs in Pugad Lawin? We are mocking the Lives, Works and Death of our immortal heroes.

Truth about us

GREED - Embedded in the inner-most DNA of humanity. A part of humanity. No other creature on earth has it etched in its core. It is present from when we were born and cultivated in our early childhood. It starts with possession. The time we recognize something to be ours is the time we nourish the seed and drown out the principle of a shared universe.

"WHAT IS MINE IS MINE"

In infancy, we are trained to recognize what is ours and not ours. We open our minds to the fact that "what is mine is mine" and what is his is his. We begin to build our world. A world all on our own. "My parents," "my toys," "my food," "my world." We begin to thrive on our possessions and perceive our world revolving around us. His world revolves around him.

"I WANT ONE"

In the toddler years we cultivate our traits in owning. We love what is ours. We shew them off. We are proud of what is ours. My world is the greatest, but his world has a tower. I want one. Not so much for the tower but the toys and everything we don not have. We cultivate another trait - Envy. I want what he has got and I want it better. We nag to get one and plead for it.

"IF YOU WON'T GIVE IT, I'LL TAKE IT"

As we grow older, we tend to adopt the principle: "If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself." So we take matters in to our own hands. I want a shirt like his only better. my parents wouldn't buy me one so I'm going to save my allowance for it. Good idea, huh? To feed one's greed by getting one's own hands dirty. But what of the others who can't save? they follow the mantra: "if you won't give it, I'll take it." Too bad for the one he's going to take it from.

"TIME"

By our adolescent years, we overcome the greed for material things. It is replaced by our nagging greed for attention, affection, understanding and time. By this time we start growing hair and start to feel love or blinded by infatuation. Crush stage. We confuse admiration for beauty as love. Then we tend to try ans impress our crush. We get envious of the people who has her attention. This is the part where we go down on a slump and figure out what to do to win her attention and affection. Then we turn to change everything about us for her to notice. One day you come home pissed because she did not notice you. Your parents are shocked by your expression and the way you look. Then you go and say "why can't you understand me?!" Greed has taken a new form. And it will again evolve in time.

"GROWN UP"

By the time we get over our pathetic teenage philosophies, we discover something we really want. Liberty. Freedom. A chance to do what we want. But this is not liberty from greed. By this time our greed is growing with us. We take all the stages of greed we have had and put it all in a ball and paint it green. We want to do what we want but in order to do so, we must have "de niro," "money," "the green," or "the bills." "What is mine is mine and I want more so if you won't give it, I'll take it, in time, what is yours will be mine." And most think that money is the root of all evil, but if you think about it, greed is.

"END"

Even to our death bed, we are never content. WE would say "I wish I had more time." As I see it, we can never be content.

Greed is a part of man. It is the truth. The sad and horrid truth.

greed

Greed. the leading cause of crime.
it is not poverty as most people perceive. if you look at it deeper, greed actually caused most of the criminal activities. Pure, raw human greed. the aspirations to be something more, to have more and control more.
greed has caused the rich to want more. after the rich have achieved the highest, they would not want to let it go. thus the rich will proudly step on each other so no one will be higher than them. and they will aspire more to be higher that nobody could reach them. and how else would they do that but by destroying all who are below them. take all the wealth of those too weak to oppose them. thus the rich gets richer and the poor are left hungry and dying.
now driven bu the will to survive, the poor finds a way to satisfy their hunger. they work, they strive and greed comes in. they want more. thus the poor finds more ways to live easier. they do everything humanly possible regardless of the law of man and God. and where else would they steal the wealth but from the people who trampled them.
the rich Stael through politics and loopholes within the law. the poor pillages with blades within the streets. but what chance does the poor have against the towering might of corruption, destructive corporations and influential power?

as Noli de Castro so well put it, "human greed... the race to go beyond previous in come records to the point of overextending capabilities of human institutions cased the near-meltdown of the major financial markets in the world."
but as I see it, it already collapsed the foundation of human living to the point that it is a necessity if one wishes to survive.