![]() ![]() Your friends schedule a last-minute event that sounds fun, but tonight is your only night of the week to stay in.Someone needs a shift picked up and while you could use the extra money, you've only averaged five hours of sleep each night for the last week. ![]() Here are some examples of when you might want to say yes, but should say no: Stripping your schedule of events (and even work projects, if possible) can help you reserve more energy for the important things. Most people today are severely overworked and overbooked, and can profoundly benefit from saying no to things that don't make them squeal with glee. Not everyone is willing to use their one and only chance at living just to be bogged down by ineptitude and ignorance and self-serving agendas.It's really quite simple: Say yes to things that make you feel good and say no to things that don't. Not everyone is as deluded and willfully blind as you are. I hate to break it to you, but not everyone thinks like you do. Who cares if we have the highest number of people being encouraged to leave by our very own government, exported and packaged as overseas Filipino workers because there are no opportunities for us here, right? Who cares if we have crime and oppression as a part of our daily lives, cowed into submission not just by abusive authorities but by a desperation to survive so strong and tangible that it might as well be an actual person? Who cares that we have been sold to another country by a group of people with only their interests in mind? Who cares that we have been essentially left to fend for ourselves during a pandemic that’s not going away anytime soon, with health care workers already tapping out due to fear and stress, but are told to shut up because apparently they’re not contributing hard enough, not sacrificing hard enough, not dying in vain hard enough? Who cares, right? Surely you don’t mind, that’s why you’re still proud to be Filipino. ![]() You would rather all of us continue accepting every morsel and crumb that keeps being thrown at us derisively, mockingly, because you don’t think elected leaders should be criticized because darn it, they’re just human and trying their best and are all good at heart deep down? Okey dokey! You don’t feel anything when the youth and the marginalized take to the streets despite a pandemic to voice out their concerns about how we are being exploited, calling out for others like us to join their cause and amplify our collective voice, to stop being apathetic? No problem. You think it’s okay to continue reading about elected primates guzzling taxpayers’ hard-earned money down the drain, without even the tiniest bit of remorse while they’re doing it? Go ahead. You are either from a privileged background with your safety nets to catch you when the crap hits the fan, or far worse, a person who’s deluding himself into thinking everything’s fine even when your home is being engulfed in flames. ![]() I also don’t care if you’re going to burst into song about why you’re proud to be Pinoy despite everything. ![]()
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