YOU ARE THE WINNING BRAND NOT A DEFEATIST

Pres. Rodrigo Roa Duterte (PRRD) said last night, Tuesday, during the launching of the Go Negosyo’s “Pilipinas Angat Lahat” program: "Sinabi ko sa mga sundalo at sa mga pulis, 'Guys, I want you to know that I am thinking of stepping down because I’m tired,".

TO MY BELOVED PRESIDENT, try to read this:

You have to be mentally prepared for possible violent confrontation. If you are shot or injured, that does not necessarily mean that you are going to die. If you give up, if you lay down to die, then that’s exactly what will happen, you will die. If you give up the will to live, your spirit would dissipate, will disappear. If you lay down to die, most probably the subject that got you in the first place is going to come around the corner, come around the car whatever, and he’s going to shoot you at point blank range and you will die. So if you lay down to die, the message is you will die. You have got to maintain the will to live.

PRRD, I know you are drowning in a sea of grief because you were overwhelmed by the enormity of the problem of corruption and you feel helpless like you’re being pulled underwater. You feel the stench of failure coming on. Nevertheless, from day one, you have distinguished yourself as a Leader of substance, and although your words cut deeper than a knife and your angry words were bullets to many, but your heart is a cold iron.

All Filipinos know You have the fillip; courage and all that was required to fight for the common man. PRRD, you have already relished in encountering the devastating force of the domineering corruption syndrome persistently troubling our country. For a Leader as ebullient as you are, the road to success in your leadership would never have been too tortuous. Your exemplary life has taught you that “from the cradle to the grey days is a war, do not rest on your oars in your effort towards a greater height in life”.

It would be unfortunate that You, PRRD , who had good intention for your people and beyond could not be fortunate enough to fulfill your life’s aspiration; to totally liberate our country from the exhaustion of the domineering power of corruption. Perhaps the scale of corruption you are facing tended to blind You to the fact that not every person is endowed with the same measure of energy, enthusiasm, and ability as You were blessed with.

Yes, the road to free the country from corruption was a ribbon stretching across the desert but as you tread along, you are also the thunder of a mighty lion which stomach was a bottomless pit.

Just remember, the hardest is found in the easiest. Everything in war is easy, but the easy things are difficult. Pls, DO NOT GIVE UP and be perceived as a defeatist, which You don’t seem to fit. For 30 years as a politician, you never lost in the election, including the presidency. This is the inexorable proof that you are THE WINNING BRAND.