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Philippines is My Home

 

            
             Home is a place where most find serenity, a sense of belongingness, feeling of comfort and relaxation, and our heaven here in earth. It is more than just the infrastructure rising from a village with interiors personally handpicked by the owner; like a fairy godmother enchanting a barren place into a majestic kingdom of hers. This is our own kingdom where we are its kings. For Filipinos like me, Philippines is my country, my home, a place where first lessons are learned; how to walk, talk, love and live. This is the abode of my rich history; a witness to my becoming a fine young lad, a land conquered by many aliens yet survived all the wrath and pain, a nation that considers me as a first class citizen. That is why, Filipinos overseas take time going home because there is no place like home.
             Somehow despite all those flowery things I mentioned, reality hurts and saddens me badly with a knowledge that some of my fellow citizens disgrace and put up disgust on our country when their only bases are other countries of Western and some Eastern civilizations. It is a reason so lame yet accepted that makes me feel so down. With that, I pose a challenge to show the blinded eyes the real colors and life beneath the smoke, fog and busy streets of the Philippines; the life we as Filipinos share together. We must not indulge in a voyage looking for a better place to stay because we are already there, the problem is that we fail to realize and recognize it. What causes this? I am not sure but my answer is certain, this is our place and lets make it really ours.
             From the sky above, Philippines looks like a pearl shining from the great vast sea, proclaiming its beauty and luxury but from the sky to the land, my land is more than the Pearl of the Orient Seas (Cruz, I., 1990) for it is a sea full of pearls. Philippines, because of intertwined conquests, is a land of unique mixed culture. People here share varied ways of living from the simplest to the most complicated.


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