People

Oh people!
People judge
people envy People condone people

People conform to norms
People think of absolute truth
People create their own convention
Convention becomes the truth

People creates people
And destroys what they created
Even love and trust
But people teach people not to trust other people

People oH people
people follow so typical a pattern
People lives so eventually they will die
And goes up and down along the way

People say you are up when you have money
Lots of it and people say you you're down
when you have none

people live in opposites
positives and negatives
Oh people I don't understand people
As sometimes I cannot understand myself

Pinay In DUbai

Gender: Female

Status: In a relationship/Domestic Partnership

Nationality: Filipino

Location: DubAi, UAE

"Blame RiZal and Bonifacio!", cried my colleague next to my desk [I was eavesdropping]. "Only if they weren't so proud to be under American Rule - they wouldn't revolt against them, then PHilippines would be one of America's States and PInoys wouldn't have to go thru the long process of applying for American or Canadian citizenship". [I don't know what my HIstory professors would have to say upon hearing this]. What happened to the word "nationalism"? Maybe it died with the Katipuneros and now remembered as a mere Urban Myth told by sunog-baga's in the alleys of Quiapo and Ermita.

They were discussing about having a Green Card and holding American Passport so they wouldn't feel belittled by other nationalities around here -so they would be at par with them and be confident enought to chat and laugh with them during socials-so they would be easily be invited to parties.

Hearing my collegues cry, I thought maybe nations are not as important today as it was yesteryears, when Bonifacio and Rizal thought that keeping is above anything on earth.