The true symbol of the nation

Posted by Makabayang Supremo
Rome, Italy, 11/06/2014

I am not physically present in my country and could only follow  the preparations for the upcoming 116^th!independence Day celebrations through the pictures posted in internet, and what do we see? Numertous flags along the streets, public buildings above the people going on their daily cjores, their jobs, most are in the uniform of lowly workers: rags. These make me wonder,are flags the true symbol of the nation, or the people, the ordinary everyday people who are struggling to eke a living in a country immersed  neck-deep in povety?Are we celebrating the wrong independence day? Can we call ourselves free when the people are living a life not even fit for animals? Where is the prosperity of the nation being heralded I the papers when the people are not toiuched by the so-called economic progress? Is it because it was not the nation that is prospering but only the state run by the lucky ones who share the wealth, not by the nation who bear the hard luck of being poor?

All these questions boils down to only one question. Is the nation truly from thedomination by the overlords of wealth against whom our forefathers fought and died?

And is the nation as free as the flag above them seemingly free to fly in the breeze but, in reality, restrained by the cords that tied it to the pole?

If we have to choose which is the true symbol of the nation, it has to be the people, not the flag which are but pieces of cloth.