Galit, Mary Rose Q.

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Resilience is not enough

Resilience is a word that describes us, the Filipino people in times of calamities or
adversities. It somehow foster an image of a strong nation, the one that bounces back quickly
with a smile as a weapon. This trait gave us hope that everything will be alright again, everything
will bring back to normal or resume to their normal life soon. It is by no mean a negative trait,
after all, it becomes necessary especially when we have challenges , or there are misfortune that
happened to us.

However, there comes to a point when resilience will never be enough. At its worst,
resilience is being used as a diversion from real obstacles facing our country, yet another instant
fix proposed by planners who are blind to the powerful evolved resilience of poor and minority
communities or who, alternatively, by to appropriate it as if it were their own. They create
organizations and trainings for us to be resilient but they fail to go deeply enough to seriously
confront the barriers to resilience. When business are still allowed to destroy the nature because
of their waste, environmental problems we currently dealing with will just keep getting worse.
When rules and laws are not be enforced properly for the welfare of the people, it is those same
people that will be burdened because of the devastating impacts of disasters. And also if different
sectors of the government will corrupt fund that supposed to be for the preparation for the
preparation for the disasters then maybe us, people, can only be dependent on ourselves.

Being resilient is good, but why do we need to be resilient when we can avoid needing to
be and save ourselves the costs that might be too much to handle?