BY: DONALD SEVILLA

A NATION OF WOES

Woe to our politicians who are bickering no end. The more they talk and open their mouths, the more our people are deprived of the services due us.

Woe to the high and mighty of our land, we are dragged into their squabbles and forced to make a stand. Ugly as it is, our politics is dividing our land.

What man hath put together man has conveniently set asunder. What started out as a dream unity team remained just that, a broken dream.

Whether red or blue taking sides would do our country no good. We are only sucked deeper into a bottomless pit of our heightened emotions.
Our feelings may find us supporting one or the other, but reason and logic need us to be open and objective. These are difficult and trying times for a nation already on edge.

Tension and tempers have flared and fanning the flames of anger is courting trouble. What our country needs is to set our politics aside and work harder for what our people truly deserve.

To love our country we must go beyond ourselves. We may question our institutions but we need them to work, too.

Without them our nation will be plunged into anarchy and chaos. Far greater than us are the dreams and aspirations of those who will outlive us.

If we continue to bicker and fight one another, our children may not have a bright future to live.

Sadly we are becoming our own worst enemies.  Yet, what we truly need, is to rein in our horses and look at the greater good.

  • Good things cannot be accomplished if we adamantly stick to our positions and not budge an inch.

    At a time when we are tempted to think highly of ourselves as right, we must learn to be humble. There are no cheerful winners here as we all could end up losing what great things we have valiantly fought for.

    Today is a litmus test of our maturity as a people. We may not like the way things are happening but sometimes we are called upon to make sacrifices.

    Unless we cast aside our differences we cannot achieve anything. The die has been cast and we can only wait and have faith that our institutions will work.

    At the end of the day we can ask ourselves where best can justice be served? Here, there, wherever or at our own behest?