Someone asked me why Visayans are so laid back, always not on a rush and celebrate fiestas in a way that the whole downtown streets close. And why is it that we tend not to rush things…rush things like there is no tomorrow and instead would go on to fiestas and celebrate. Are we that lazy and that’s why we celebrate things too often?
At first, I have my eyebrows raised…What? Lazy? WTF! But again, if I went emotional I couldn’t explain rationally… eh di sumemplang pa ako lalo! So..first I becalmed myself and faced that guy and gave him some frank answers…
At first I said, we’re not lazy. We just love life to the fullest. We tend not to rush things as if we’re on caffeine steroids.
Second, if we are indeed lazy, how can we manage to have created empires and cities out of sugar, shipping and so much more. Haven’t he forgotten where the Aboitizes, Lopezes and the once powerful political entity called the “sugar bloc” came from? Where did Cebu’s, Iloilo’s, Bacolod’s, Tacloban’s, Bohol’s progress came from? Di ba, from the people’s own blood, sweat and tears? Culture and the environment we’re living are different as his.
Yes we may be laidback, but hey…we’re not lazy either! Enjoy the life to the fullest extent!
As what Mahatma Gandhi say “Live as you are to die tomorrow, Lean as if you have to live forever!”
My dos pesos worth…
I must agree to this Berniemack! That doesn’t mean that because we Visayans are laidback, that we are already lazy. We also do our best and enough proof of that are Visayans who have excelled in their fields.
Posted by Kevin Ray N. Chua at January 12, 2010, 8:38 amIt’s just tiring hearing stereotyping…I couldn’t have answered him but I have to correct what’s wrong.
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I'm Berniemack Arellano, just a simple and boring guy who wants to go amok whenever he's being prevented going somewhere else.
Inspired by the Lonely Planet/Pilot Guides series, I desperately went on to see places and culture as a cure to absolute monotony of life in the early 21st Century despite of financial incapabilities.
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