Rains and Floods

This was a long pending post. I couldn't seem to find words to finish this one, for a totally different context but now, being stuck here at home, I feel that I finally found the words I need, to make sense of the thoughts in my head. 

Today, parts of the country is once again submerged in water. Roads are impassable, dams overflowing, flooded roads, classes and work suspended, classrooms and other buildings are now turned into evacuation centers. So many of our countrymen, stranded, unsafe and feeling cold.

This isn't the first time that we got to experience this. Back in 2009, we experienced Ondoy. We thought, that it could never happen again, but as years gone by, there's always that news of flooding in different parts of our country and it always seemed worse than the year before that. Year in and year out, relief operations are being conducted. Why haven't we learned our lesson yet? Why do we still see ourselves in the situations over and over again?

Life is a series of cause and effects. One thing leads to A that creates B and eventually causes C. This is where crisis planing goes into play. If you think about it, hindi lang ang flooding ang kailangan solusyunan. If you look at the bigger pictures, there are more pressing issues that needs to be addressed. Thats the thing with mapping out situations, it opens up more problems, we all find the roots to these effects.

As much as the relief operations provide a short term solution to all of this, I think its time that concrete steps are taken to address this problem. Hindi pwede na sa bawat bagyong papasok sa PAR eh maprapraning ang lahat sa kung anong posibleng mangyari. We all know we have the funds for this, we could only pray and hope that these are put to its proper use.

So while I'm at it, lets do our part in helping those in need. We have been blessed to have a roof on our heads and have access to the internet, be in a more comfortable state that most of our fellow countrymen, maybe its about time that we become a blessing to other people. It always feels great to know that you spent your time and put in your efforts into something that changes lives; to feel relevant and to be part of a group that brings hope and light to others, to have so little of yourself be part of something big.