Let me start with this story. God called PRRD and the entire Catholic Priests to settle their differences. The priests’ head told God: PRRD said that our God is ‘stupid’ and we want him punished and our witness is the media. God asked PRRD: is this true? PRRD answered in his usual combative stance without fear, yes God because it is my God who is perfect. Then, God said to both of them: you are both fathers in your own right—PRRD is the father of the nation; and you, is the father of your respective parishioners, that’s why you are called father. Now, listen, God said to them, leave PRRD to do his job for the nation; you, father, do your job as the father for your parishioners; and both of you stop your quarrel with each other so I will not be hit in the crossfire. And you media, God said with a dagger look, stop acting as a turtle by making the Elephant and the Hippopotamus engaged in a Tug of War. Shape up or ship out, trouble makerrrr, God rumbled.
The country’s problem: Drugs, criminality, corruption, rebellion are such that they are like tracing our finger on a Mobius Strip, going round in an infinite loop. We all have to learn to think ourselves into PDu30’s place; to put ourselves into his shoes, and to make room for PDu30’s hopes and dreams for our nation. For the more we can appreciate one another’s perspective, the more dimension and depth we add to our own. We look to the clerics for support for PDu30 to keep the parties on the path to peaceful co-existence as they take down the walls in their hearts. True peace depends on reconnecting the bonds of our common humanity. We will never move forward by closing ourselves off. The only way to grow is to reach out. In our interconnected world, there are no zero-sum games. We win or lose together. We all have a stake in peace and progress – for all of us are diminished by their absence. Let us work together to make peace and progress come true, for good.
The country’s problem: Drugs, criminality, corruption, rebellion are such that they are like tracing our finger on a Mobius Strip, going round in an infinite loop. We all have to learn to think ourselves into PDu30’s place; to put ourselves into his shoes, and to make room for PDu30’s hopes and dreams for our nation. For the more we can appreciate one another’s perspective, the more dimension and depth we add to our own. We look to the clerics for support for PDu30 to keep the parties on the path to peaceful co-existence as they take down the walls in their hearts. True peace depends on reconnecting the bonds of our common humanity. We will never move forward by closing ourselves off. The only way to grow is to reach out. In our interconnected world, there are no zero-sum games. We win or lose together. We all have a stake in peace and progress – for all of us are diminished by their absence. Let us work together to make peace and progress come true, for good.
Let’s keep the momentum going; let's keep our spirit and attitude right in all things, and let our enthusiasm and zeal be tempered with much courage and wisdom. Let us always remember that "It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, he sends a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples to build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” We must forget the bickering that tears us apart, and instead of falling into the pits of knocking each other down we lift each other up.
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