Hi. I'm just here to post about my feelings about my country. If it's bad, well, I can just remove it.

Have you ever found out about the lies of the people with higher positions in your country that makes you feel like you have been deceived and lost hope..?

I love my country. But I don't like some of the people here...

The people here who still think that June 12--our Independence Day, was real. When in reality, our first president sold our country to the US. The US made a bluff that we won a "war" against them and had our "Independence Day".

Those people who had the opportunity to live in a different country and starts posting it on social media and they tell about it like they forgot about where they came from.

Most of us forgot about our tribes whose homes have been taken away by mining corporations that aren't even ours, but from other countries that wanted to get resources from us and make them as cars, gadgets and stuffs like that. We have great resources for stuffs like that, but we can't even make our OWN good product. Plus, people of those tribes don't even get any justice. They end up going on streets begging for alms. Unless if one of those people are "good-looking" and gets viral on social media, they will be taken by companies and give them the things that are sometimes not a good idea for some people.The others? They get nothing. They're still homeless.

Our school never even told about the real death of our heroes (who fought for our real freedom). They say "he got shot by a gun", when in reality he was murdered. He trusted our president for our freedom, but he was betrayed.

Some of the modern activists who wanted to fight for our country gets murdered or had gone missing.

Some of us don't follow rules. Even those who are in the government. Who would even let a boxer enter in such a place?

Schools in some provinces don't get enough school supplies or even safer buildings or even medical care. Higher-ups don't care about it unless it's almost election day.

Umm.. I'm sorry for ranting too much. I feel depressed about this. Seeing the lives of other developed countries envies me that sometimes I wished I lived in a different country.

Yet sometimes, I just feel like, "Guess what, I don't care. My family is here, my friends are here, and they love me like I do to them. I am not alone in this place. There are still people who is aware of what is going on. This is not the end."
I hope that didn't sound selfish. It's okay if this post was boring. I have to burst this all out on somewhere that is (at least) hidden...

Thank you.

Just another day in another country.
Humans.

I'm guessing you're either from the Philippines or Russia since June 12 is the independence day for those countries.

Unfortunately you have to do the song and dance to get what you want. Knuckle on through. Get an education and get out. Heck, you can even get into politics if you want and try to make some major changes in your country.

I feel the same way as you :'( (I'm from the same country, btw).

It's really frustrating how people seem to be so forgetful. But then again, it's not "forgetting" it's "brainwashing".

I'm currently in college. I chose a different university than my alma mater and now I think I made a good choice. I took a look at my works in high school, and I saw that there was a time when we had to write a criticism/review/whatever about the president then for a social studies paper. You know what I wrote? I wrote how this and that projects by that president was good, about how it's helping the country and all that shit. Then I remembered how our teacher then never actually mentioned how shitty his administration was, what its flaws were. And I, being the crammer I am, simply wrote that the administration's work is good because I don't understand anything. I have no idea what the consequences of his projects will be and I could only look at the news -shitty bias news which shows its supposedly "good" outcome.

I'm like "holy shit. I fucking wrote that?" Now that I'm in college, not gonna mention which (but I guess you could guess...), I learned each and every flaw his administration and its projects are. I learned about its good side too (albeit a it's a bit irrelevant to solve the actual problems in our country). I learned about how to judge whether something is indeed helpful (for our country), and which is not. Even without other people pointing out the flaws of whatnots (ex. 4Ps), I could see its flaws.

Well, long story short, only a small amount of our citizens actually get lectured about reality. They could only base their judgement from the media (shitty biased media) and from what they learned in school (although not everyone can afford education -but tbh, I believe most of those uneducated people from the marginalized sector know more than those that are educated, in regards to social and political issues).

P.S. Lucky you, I'm so bummed about how most, if not all, of my family (and friends not from my college) are so ignorant about social issues and when I try to lecture them, they either "listen" but don't actually care, or tell me to stop like what I'm talking about is black propaganda, that it's not real.

Well, that's that. I can't do anything to change our country (or the world) in an instant. I'm now a student-journalist for our school (activist) newspaper (or was actually, I quit because even though the people there are socially aware, smart and critical thinkers, they kinda talked bad about me behind my back (or so someone indirectly told me <_< I can't help saying them when I'm angry.

It sounds like you're talking about the Philippines(June 12 is our "independence day")where I'm currently visiting for a month, and it's been kinda bad, I kinda feel miserable here. For a few reasons it has kinda messed up my life in a few ways. Anyways I have nothing really important or relevant to say, so... yeah.... I mean it is a cool place, but it has its downsides.