Early morning thoughts

I woke up this morning with thoughts on the coming election. It might have been due to the news article I read yesterday regarding the SWS survey saying that around 60 to 70% of Filipinos believe that cheating will mar this election. I don’t know the real objective of this survey but, for a moment, it surely made me lose interest and trust in this coming electoral exercise. It may have been the effect to the others who have read it as well. If it was really the goal of the survey to incite such attitude, then it succeeded big time.

Rebounding from the temporary ‘brain wash’, I thought I shouldn’t be influenced by this survey. I should still hang on to my faith and hope that things would be better after the election, and that the best people for the positions will win. I will remain optimistic that life will be better in this country of mine.

I am now in the process of evaluating each and every candidate running for office and this early, I have considered some who are not that popular, but with sincere platforms of government. It will be a risk that I will take voting for them because they might not win, but then again, it will be a well-taken risk. I remember reading one article that said, “The greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Because the person who risks nothing, accomplishes nothing, has nothing, feels nothing, and in the end, becomes nothing!”

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