YOU SAY BE WISE, I SAY ACT WISE

Why is it that many people will say: "I am in favor of [the competent] for president, but it seems like he will not win, so I will vote for [the popular] who is more likely to get it, so that my vote won't be wasted"? Crap!!! Is this what the meaning of voting "wisely"?. It's more of fanaticism than intelligence. And worse, believing in popularity surveys having only a thousand respondents, then being generalized as the "voice" of approx 50 million Filipino voters. What a deception. It's not even close to one percent, but we let ourselves being deceived.

We cry for change, but we haven't changed from within. We still are attracted with the bandwagon appeal. Voting wisely is still the mantra here. But it should be done more than just being uttered. Or else, we will still stay the same, not for another six years, but forever. Yes, it is always not late for a change. If we get it wrong for now, then we will still have another chance six years after. But, for every chance that me miss to get right, we are bringing ourselves farther and farther from the glory that we are imagining and the candidates are saying, but in reality, is not happening.

Let's vote wisely, for real. Let's use our brains. Be wise. So that we Filipinos will always be called "pinoys" and "flips" in the positive light.