A Ray of Hope or Idle Pleasures?

A GRIP OF GIST 

Maricon G. Gonzales

 

We live in a precarious world where change is the only constant thing present around us. Thus, I say change is inevitable among us human. It is permanent to change. Changes happen because we all want to develop and improve ourselves as a special creation of God. Same as in our government then, it undergoes changes to fulfill its mission to serve its people.

As I observed in this very recent year, our government had made necessary plan of actions, reforms, and changes on its system to help citizens of this nation especially those unfortunate ones to alleviate their way of living.

One of the specific actions that our government had implemented today is the 4P’s (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) that will benefit the poor household in the entire country. This program has these dual objectives: to give social assistance and to promote social development in every household beneficiary qualified for this program.

But as we undergo this program in order to change and uplift the lives of those qualified beneficiaries, will you think that our government had really made the proper and right action for it? Will our government be helpful enough to those four million household beneficiaries to ease their burdens? Is 4P’s (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) can really eradicate poverty and hunger? And will our government be able to mold those beneficiaries to be productive citizens of this country?

I don’t purely say I’m against with the program, but somehow I say this 4P’s (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) of course has its flaws. Not flaws in the program itself, but flaws in some negative consequences of it. Why so? It’s because I think that some beneficiaries being selected and registered in this program are really not worth to be recipients of this aid. Well, they are those ones who relied their survival and own living for the government’s programs. I consider them to be inexplicable people; weaker people who can’t move and escape their very dour fate.

Poverty! Hunger! Being Uneducated! What an absurd alibis for them in failing to meet and sustain the basic needs of their family and children. Why shouldn’t they make their own big move today to at least appease the fate they got in? Why they keep on depending in the government all these times?

These household beneficiaries I would say are becoming lazy, idle, irresponsible and dependent on the government for their survival day by day. In some cases, some of them used the financial assistance of 4P’s for useless matters. The given money which should have been intended for health and nutrition of their children just goes to waste and nonsense ways. They spent it unwisely.

On the other hand, having said those things, still I would like to commend the 4P’s (Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program) for certainly being one of the best programs implemented by the government in today’s era. 4P’s had given the worthy beneficiaries a ray of hope- an abundant and greener pasture ahead of them.

Pondering upon the thoughts I had brought here in this article, somehow I leave this: “In the long run it is not the government who will uplift us from the grassroots of poverty and illiteracy but rather our own self, strong enough to face changes- may these changes be good or bad.”

And who does not want change at all?