On self reliance

Message 1: Kit, may sked ka na para sa enrollment? (Do you have the schedule for the enrollment?)

Message 2: Pila na da simo ya class card? (How many class cards have you kept with you?)

Message 3: Simpon kuha class card simo? (Would we get our class cards all together from you?)

Message 4: Ara na ya mga class card? (Are the class cards there?)

Message 5: Ano requirements mag-transfer? (What are the requirements of transferring/)

For chrissake, tigilan ninyo ako.

I had been trained (luckily) to be self reliant, from our home, to my grade school, to my secondary years. I was trained not to rely on anyone. I was urged to use my instinct, my initiative, my own will in making my decisions, and to move by myself. Up to now, my training continues. Since I am living far from home (about 80 kilometers), I learned that reliance on people for your food, housing, assignments, projects, requirements, do not work well in my system. So I end up being relied upon to (ginasaligan in Hiligaynon). Which I totally don’t dig.

Due to the unfortunate scandal (if what others call it) involving our curriculum internal officers, there was a complete re shuffling of the first year classroom officers. And, as the tide turned, I was elected as chairperson of our section. Pak.

Well, I clearly do not want to be THE chairperson. But since, parang walang direction sa buhay ang mga tao sa section namin, I decided, what the heck, sige na lang.

Now, I feel that there is nothing that I can do for them. *Waving a white flag.

Some are just too superficial. To the point that you have really shallow arguments every single time! Ay naku, nakakasakit sa ulo.

Some, well, super negators. Mga re-incarnation ata ni Che Guevarra at Mussolini. Putok ang fuse box mo pag sila ang katapat mo.

Some are the local versions of Moymoy Palaboy. From the name itself, ‘Moymoy’, baw, daw moymoy gid man sa kilid. They don’t even know how to process their clearances for putridsake. They don’t even know how to get forms, talk to the professors, everything.

But in general, most are lacking of self-reliance. Super wala.

Maybe it was also my fault. I always say, okay, I never deny a request.

Or is it the training?

That’s why I have texted them all, group message in SMS this:

1D, good morning. Due to the messages I had received, I will give you all an advice. Self-reliance is the key to success in college. Please, do your transactions for the enrollment and get your class cards from our respective professors. Please see for yourself the enrollment schedule and flow. I do not know the schedule and what-to-do because I am not the registrar. I am not your keeper. Learn to work individually. Madamo nga salamat.

That message was sent in three parts.

I know it is my responsibility to inform them, but they don’t need to squeeze the information out of me. I have told them earlier on that I do not live in the university and that I will just inform them of the schedules and dates if I can see and IF I know the date. If they are so impatient then why don’t they see for themselves if there is a post on the bulletin board? Now that is using some brains. Instead of wasting load on texting me, ‘Te, when ang enrollment ta?’, why don’t they just go here.

They would say, ‘Magasto sa plite, kanugon lang.’ (Fare is costly, it’ll be such a waste.). Well excuse me, you are a student at a university, therefore, it is your PERSONAL obligation to transact PERSONALLY your PERSONAL needs in terms of PERSONAL matters AND this includes ENROLLMENT. Besides, I go back to school PERSONALLY to know the 5 W’s. I do not text someone na, ‘Hoy, ya class cards ta ara na?’ (Hey, are our class cards there?). I go to school. I rely on myself.

People here are just simply childish, immature, and insufficiently equipped.

Kulang sa training at kulang nang concept of self-reliance.

As the saying goes. You can never teach people to rely on themselves. They’ll just have to wake up one day and realize that.

I hope that day comes. /KP