No fight won
Well, right now I don’t feel the sense of community and the existence of public realities with some kids of my age. There are some instances that when I am in a group opening a discussion for a social issue, people tend to be quiet and seem to be uninterested. In my experience, my friends’ stamina in talking rise up when talking about gossips, cell phones, branded clothes—things to brag about and people to get envy with.
When I try to put a finger on social issues, silence comes—urging for a topic change. Sometimes I am considered to be overly concerned with things that I can not change—things young people should not be touching in a conversation. They think such topics are irrelevant and inappropriate.
Well, the standards have changed. Young people are more individualistic. They are more concerned with their own dispositions on how they want to manage their lives.
If it isn’t for young people who fought for the rights of their age class and other dominated strata years way, way back, these kinds of choices everyone is crazed to be putting much attention with would not exist today.
I argue that if there are struggles already won few decades ago by our fellow youth, then we should stop there. There is no such thing as a state of completeness. We can not be sure of an absolute social justice. If the youth of the past generations fought for the struggles of their time, then we have our own struggles also.
We should consider every bit of hardship, inconsistencies and contradictions that we feel in our daily realities. Let us consider also our own interest. The battle is never been over unless we try to move. No battle has been completely won.
Meaning social issues that seem so distant from our concerns might actually be ours. They are not hard to find. We just have to realize every bit of questions that we set aside everyday. We should envision our own interest—the youth—part of society which ideally should have been questioning the existing way of things.
Well in some sense, part of the youth is regressing and rotting for conformity and consumerist individualism. Still, there are some who know how to stand on their own interest and active in their role as responsible kids struggling to make history to the Filipinos.
Well, right now I don’t feel the sense of community and the existence of public realities with some kids of my age. There are some instances that when I am in a group opening a discussion for a social issue, people tend to be quiet and seem to be uninterested. In my experience, my friends’ stamina in talking rise up when talking about gossips, cell phones, branded clothes—things to brag about and people to get envy with.
When I try to put a finger on social issues, silence comes—urging for a topic change. Sometimes I am considered to be overly concerned with things that I can not change—things young people should not be touching in a conversation. They think such topics are irrelevant and inappropriate.
Well, the standards have changed. Young people are more individualistic. They are more concerned with their own dispositions on how they want to manage their lives.
If it isn’t for young people who fought for the rights of their age class and other dominated strata years way, way back, these kinds of choices everyone is crazed to be putting much attention with would not exist today.
I argue that if there are struggles already won few decades ago by our fellow youth, then we should stop there. There is no such thing as a state of completeness. We can not be sure of an absolute social justice. If the youth of the past generations fought for the struggles of their time, then we have our own struggles also.
We should consider every bit of hardship, inconsistencies and contradictions that we feel in our daily realities. Let us consider also our own interest. The battle is never been over unless we try to move. No battle has been completely won.
Meaning social issues that seem so distant from our concerns might actually be ours. They are not hard to find. We just have to realize every bit of questions that we set aside everyday. We should envision our own interest—the youth—part of society which ideally should have been questioning the existing way of things.
Well in some sense, part of the youth is regressing and rotting for conformity and consumerist individualism. Still, there are some who know how to stand on their own interest and active in their role as responsible kids struggling to make history to the Filipinos.
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