The daunting task of a politician…

I wouldn’t be so tight lipped when I say that I have ambitions in Politics. As much as I condemn that practices of some politicians, I do acknowledge the fact that connections are important, especially here in the Philippines.

I have long been an idealist, but as I see the picture more and more visibly all I see is a road that could never be passed by a saint. It’s filled with thorns and snakes ready to take a bite of you or pinch you when you least expect it.

Long have I heard of “Jedi” or aspiring politicians who have held ideals that they learned from their “Masters” but soon as they enter that carnal pit of ravaging fools, they are sucked in to the dark side. Sad. A Tragedy. But what’s worst is that this story would be told time again as new batch of graduates enters the political and public scene.

POLSCI, all the time we study power and how it interacts with society. Who gets what? when? how? Its all too grand but then granduer hold lies that would lead us down to delusions...And soon most of us, I know would strive for power or atleast get to a proximity to it. We are studying something dangerous but then again vital... I realized now that POLISCI isn't POLISCI-yang since it studies one of the more important aspects of society, if not one of them then it is the most important of them all.

I wish not to be sucked by the system when the time comes but the more the future comes the more I see the inevitable. I just hope that my principles would be stronger than my temptations.

I do not want to be another Charles Foster Kane.