This is how I felt for many, many years, in terms of who I am as a Filipino. In fact, I feel most comfortable when I forget about my personal, individual self and am simply in the midst of many fellow Filipinos. I think now that our being is a collective, more than an individual experience (despite our Westernization) -- then it flows. Individual identity is ... painful, somehow. Maybe because then it has to be compared to other individual identities, i.e., Western. I don't say being separate is bad, or competitiveness. It's good to be self-aware, to like competing. But in Western life, that's ALL THERE IS. You can't be truly human if all you're about is being separate, and being a winner. To me, it's an aberration when society is not much more than an ego demolition derby. Are you a winner, or a loser? I've been more of a loser and a nobody. I figure, this way the balance of things is sustained."They also serve: those who only stand and wait."
Have a good one!
1 comments:
mama, que es anchoring?
Y I.E.?
BESOS
TANYAITA
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