Heart to Hurt

Racism is everywhere, you might not feel it but it exists even in your very own self!

It is been my habit to attend a public leadership conference where you witness speakers sharing their thoughts about life practices, for instance; practicality, mentality, emotionally, and spirituality. Attending this conference made a big impact to my life until there’s this guest speaker turned me off because of his reckless introduction referring to a survey with regards to the marital and relationship status of most Filipino living in provincial areas.

According to the speaker, if a person above 25 years old is still single, you better go to these places; and then he presents that "BEST PLACES FOR A SINGLE FILIPINO TO FIND A PARTNER SURVEY!" after he presented that, everyone around this conference laugh.

What turned me off is why did this speaker have to present something where most of us Filipino knew that these places are dominated by the Rebels, or New People’s Army, or places where there’s a Low Production and Cost? In other words, these places are in a desperate need of a miracle to be reached out and become productive. What is this speaker up to? Reach out to these places? NO! He’s just making a joke out of it! He's just basically saying that if you are desperate to find a partner, a lot of desperate people are waiting for you in that place. Do you find this funny? that’s no fun at all! The speaker is a Filipino so why make fun of your own kind? What if there’s someone who’s originally raised to one of those places and came to that conference? What do you think that person would feel?

Maybe for some of you this is just a joke but making fun of other people’s lives are no fun at all! You see we are a natural born racist, we describe everyone, we comment to anyone, but we have to understand that if a life of a person is at stake, that's no fun at all! If you make fun of others maybe keep it to yourself!

People have a center core of bloodstream inside their body that is called “HEART,” and the heart is very sensitive that it could easily be changed into “HURT.” So be very careful of your speeches specially if it concerns other people’s lives.