WRONG PRIORITIES

Why is our country suffering from economic hardship including us Filipinos where more or less 80 percent of our countrymen were much affectted of the crises. It is because much of our countrymen had been derailed and disoriented on the way this country should be developed. Politicians and government managers are focused on, for me, wrong priorities. Instead of prioritizing the physical development of the country, today, the government should also give enough importance to supporting the moral recovery of its people. Since the root of all this chaos and problems happening in this country is the wrong value of its one important component of developing our country- the human resources. I believe that developing this country, we don't need arm uprising or revolt but we do need a revolution that is very much timely needed -moral revolution.

In our personal experiences also, we put too much importance on developing the physical things and everything that surrounds us. Good clothings, mansions, brand new and expensive car are among the things being valued and fantasized by the many. Majority of us considered that possessing all these things made someone progressive and developed. They have not realized that a greedy man doesn't have any satisfaction at all. Haven't we realized that life is so short for us to live and waste it without realizing the true meaning of its existence.

The story of the "shopper" is one of the most common concept of development that most of the people believed . A shopper entered in the shopping center, gather all the things that he need, everthing that money can buy and brought it to the cashier for payment, In his astonishment, when he was going to pay the goods, he found out he left his wallet at home and nothing remained in his pocket. He went home empty-handed.

For us people, everything in our possession be it cheap or expensive can not be brought along with us to heaven when our life expired. Everything will be left on earth. We therefore focus on improving our chances of going to heaven which is the ultimate goal of every soul- developing our human spirit while in earth. Value reorientation towards improving the relationship of man to everything that surrounds him including improvement of his relationship to God is one of the most important revolution the Filipino should undertake to make this country a peaceful haven again.