A few months back, me and my family were watching the boobtube (its slang for television, not a kaleidescope of porn) and while my long-awaited show was already on air, my family was torturing me with local telenovelas and "reality" shows. Seriously, local shows here are so crappy that you might scratch your eyes out with the crappy, overused plot lines, shitty filming techniques, and the overacting actors, and people pay to watch these shit! Can you believe that?
I was so irritated I stated these points to my family, going on and on about how crappy our local shows are, how overidolized (is that a word? My computer says its not...) our actors are, and my rant even went to politics. I went on on how people just watch what others watch and believes in what others believe. My dad, who was an avid fan of the shows, probably got irritated and told me, "You're being a villain. If you keep going against the flow, you'll drown."
No disrespect to my father nor to anybody who also believes this, but that statement is full of crap.
Right now, there is about 20,000+ nursing graduates here in Manila looking for jobs in the US. The problem is, the US demand for nurses is already on the decline. Also, due to the recession, the US is probably avoiding unnecessary expenditures on overseas workers, so the thousands of nursing students hoping to get a good job abroad are now doomed to wandering around the streets, waving around their hard-earned diplomas. Even I have a cousin who is a very skilled artist who abandoned her dreams to obey her mother's advice on taking Nursing for college to land a good job abroad.
Most young people who are entering college is taking Nursing because it's the "hip" course, with most parents also advising to take the course, hoping that they are giving their children a good future abroad. Too bad they don't realize they are promoting what we call brain-draining, which is exporting all our professionals abroad, which is bad because while foreign countries pay us for exporting them, we are losing precious intellectuals who could actually make our country a better place with a better economy, which roughly translate to more cash for us.
People usually just follow without asking where the crowd is going. They believe that as long as there's a person in front of them, they'll be fine. The problem is, with somebody in front of you, you can't see what's ahead. If you just keep following the crowd, then all I can say is that you are a lazy fucker who can't think for himself. Yeah, there are times when you are lost that you should look for a crowd to follow for a while, but set out to venture on your own when you find your way. Don' waste life following zombies.
Two quotes for you: "Only dead fishes swim with the current," and "The way to Paradise is a narrow, untrodden road."
And for those filipino nursing students who entered your course for the reasons like your parents think it'll land you a good job abroad or that it's a "cool" course of the moment, back out NOW! It's not too late and you'll just be wasting years dissecting animals and wiping old people's asses.
