Right now we celebrate the EDSA Revolution where 23 years ago, People flocked to EDSA and through peaceful means ousted Dictator Ferdinand Marcos from power. Remember I was in third year high shcool when that happened. When people gathered in EDSA, me and my family went went and we took part in a three day historic event that changed my country. Unfortunately, it failed to take advantage of the golden opportunity we had to make real changes in this country and as a consequence, things are worse off now than before. When I think of the time when it started, I remember Tracy Chapman's song "Talking About A Revolution".
We were hailed by the world because we were able to achieve our goal without the use of violence and when that happened, all we needed to do was make real change come about. Unfortunately, we underestimated the old status quo and some of our so-called heroes started to show their true color and once again plunged this country into new lows which have gotten deeper today due to the world financial crisis. The worst part is opportunist think that anotherEDSA is the answer to the problem. If that's what they think, the method of a peaceful revolt will now be manipulated by so-called power seekers and the worse part is they're using the people and the concept of people power for their own personal gain which tragic.
Nowadays whenever EDSA rolls by, it saddens me that we did not make full use of the opportunity that we had achieved 23 years. If we keep on using people power a tool for change the way we have, we will never have a legimate government and the people will be manipulated once again to change one dictator with another. People need to open their eyes if they want real change to happen. If not then, we've proven that George Orwell's book Animal Farm is true and it's happening now as once lauded movement have been corrupted by the powerhungry who are using the masses for their own gain.
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