this past month, my e-board has been working on addressing the Philippine elections that has been happening this past month. it will significantly affect the future of the Philippines moving forward, especially with the results that has been officially announced. i’m not going to go into detail about it but it’s something that has become very important to me.
im not really into politics because growing up i was surrounded by it 24/7 and politics in the Philippines is just not pretty environment to be in. i guess for this blog post i just wanted to let some thoughts that i have flow through regarding everything that has been happening this past month which is kind of centered around the Philippine elections and i guess just the filipino identity in general. as i mentioned before, i stayed away from politics so i wasn’t really caught up with what was happening back home. i hear friends talking and posting which a lot of them felt very strongly about. i kind of just brushed it off because im here and not there i guess. in my head, i didn’t feel like there was anything i could do and i also didn’t feel comfortable discussing about it just because i don’t want to spread the wrong information or ideas to anyone that’s in the same boat as me.
however, since my eboard decided to address, which they were right that we should and eventually did, i pushed myself to actively research about these things and start talking about it with the people who know more about it than me. i was kind of scared because the topic was very sensitive and we had to really choose our words carefully with information that we put out to our social media. coming into it, i didn’t have the the much confidence to talk about it but after going to the vigil hosted by Malaya and our own movie showing, i understood how much it meant to people, how much it meant to my friends and the community that are pouring everything they’ve got to making sure people understand the significance of fighting for freedom and democracy. i realized that this is something that’s happening for real and i can’t just ignore it because of personal issues. this is something much bigger than me and i hope to further educate myself going forward. i think i just needed a space to unpack everything, sit down, breathe, and process my emotions because everything was just happening all at once.
