Ang Batang Parating Api

Just a while back, I was hanging around with my friends until a beggar kid came. She was asking money from the people around. I personally know this kid and how her life is. She goes out everyday to ask money from people so that she would have enough money to bring home so that she and her lola could eat a little bit of something. Today, I got irked by her persistence to ask for money. She was up to a point that she was already harassing my friend. At the end, she failed and she said something like: 

"Napakadamot mo, Barya nga lang e!"

My only irk with kids like these is that for the most part they grow up to become good for nothing dependent people. They wait for others to help them and thats the only thing that they do. As they grow up, the pity that they used to get from people would fade away and that they could not get money anymore. That is when they turn into Juvenile Delinquents and future schemers & criminals. As much as I do not want to generalize, the path seems clear until a proper intervention is done but as they always say: Bad Habits die hard. 

This is a clear manifestation of the inequality with the distribution of wealth in the country. As this inequality becomes clearer, it instills a mindset with the poor people; that they would be helped by the government and the richer people. When one thinks about this, it is not the case. They are supposed to help themselves, other people could only do so much for them. Their mindset have spread all over their socio economic status, and for the most part everyone is just waiting to be helped and to depend on someone. 

Hey, for what's its worth my great granparents were also poor, my grandparents were not that well off but it is all about the mindset that they had. They wanted to get out of the hell hole so they worked their asses off just so that they could provide a better future for their children and grandchildren. 

Just my two cents.