22/07/2025
Filipinos are not born to suffer. We adapt because we are left with no choice. But survival is not something to romanticize. It’s something to question.
We keep applauding Filipinos for wading through flooded streets and carrying on despite soaked homes and broken systems. But resilience should not be the standard. Preparedness, proper infrastructure, and real climate policy should be.
Glorifying resiliency lets leaders escape accountability. It shifts the burden of failure onto the people instead of those in power. And the same communities are left to suffer again and again.
Why are we still here? Why are we still unprotected?
Resilience is not a substitute for governance. If people have to keep rising from the same problem, that’s not strength. That’s abandonment.
Stop romanticizing resilience. Start demanding accountability.