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It is love of country and faith to countrymen. But how could you love a country that had caused you so much pain? How could you thrust countrymen who betrayed you and was the source of the misery of your family? I was put in jail for nearly seven years. I underwent a criminal prosecution for a crime I did not commit. For sheer inefficiency, my case dragged as if I was already a convict. And the corruption of the judicial system has blurred the vision of court authorities. I had to pray to the gods in the heaven to make a miracle. And my story is not a singular story. It is a story repeated and told over and over again. How many of my cellmates were incarcerated for months, and sometimes years, just for shoplifting a pair of jeans in Shoemart only to hear in the news that lawmakers awarded themselves with millions of pesos of bonus for a "job well done?" The high and the mighty are "legally" stealing money in our coffers and they are rewarded, while the low and the powerless are "illegally" eking out a living and they are punished. How could you be a proud member of a nation with dual standards? How can you be a part of a nation that does not treat you as a human being, which does not develop your maximum potential and instead place you in a chain of poverty and perpetual ignorance?
Approximate Word count = 899
Approximate Pages = 3.6
(250 words per page double spaced)
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