04/05/2025
Most of us who have seen video footages of the past week's tragedies involving vehicular incidents that killed innocent people, left us traumatized, maybe even distraught, angry. But the pain. How it must have been to the family, we feel, definitely. Masakit sa dibdib.
We have seen the sorrow of fathers losing their small children, big men weeping, in agony. Who wouldn't be? We can only imagine the pain of the rest of the family.
A small, small child who had been in the SCTEX accident, survived, lost both parents, in his young mind, not understanding what had happened; how he survived, how he felt at the time, we wouldn't know.
Painful. Painful to watch. So painful that you can't watch anymore new videos. So disturbing that you wake up in the middle of the night, still with the images in mind, and still cannot believe that these separate incidents happened, how it happened, and WHY?
The frustrating question of why???
But we move on. We have to.
Today and who knows how many more days weeks months years, we mourn with the families. But move on we will. That is the resilience of human spirit. We pray to God, to console most especially the families, and to include all of us, for we as a nation, are grieving, too.
May the lost of innocent lives be not in vain. May we move forward, with new laws and regulations, with proactive initiatives, to ensure that these horrible incidents do not happen again. With a little less corruption (we will take no corruption, if possible, thank you!), with infrastructure and processes that work to protect human lives. With elected and employed people working in government FOCUSED on real public service and not on fanaticism, idolization, self service, nor on creating chaos.
Today we grieve with the families, but with a strong resolve to make things better. We start with us.
Let us choose wisely the people we put in government every election. Yung magtatrabaho na totoo, may kakayanan hindi dahil sikat; yung may kaalaman sa trabaho na papasukan. Yung magpapakalma sa mga tao, hindi nagpapagalit para lang makakuha ng simpatya. Yung marunong umako ng pagkakamali, pagkukulang, dahil may intensyon at plano na itama ang mga ito. Para sa kabutihan ng mga mamamayan.
Dahil ang kaligtasan at kalusugan ng bawat isa sa atin, ay konektado sa galing o sa kawalan ng kaalaman at pakialam, ng mga tao na nagpapatakbo ng gobyerno.
Pati mga empleyado sa gobyerno at mga contractors nito, maging responsable sana sa aksyon, isipin ang kahihinatnan at magiging resulta ng pagpatol sa korapsyon, magkaroon ng accountability. Buhay ang nakataya, buhay na walang kapalit na halaga. Buhay na kapag nawala, hindi na maibabalik pa.
Simple lang naman ang gusto natin, ang mamuhay na mapayapa, ligtas,
maayos ang kalusugan. Na magiging posible kung maayos at gumagana ang mga serbisyong pampubliko. Deserved natin ito, ang maayos at ligtas na pamayanan.
Department of Health (Philippines) Department of Transportation - Philippines Land Transportation Office - Philippines Senate of the Philippines
