THE POSSIBLE DREAM

I have listened intently to all the presidentiables talk in public trying to read the truth between the lines or at least catch them speak in forked tongues ,so to speak. Listening to Villar on his former speeches in schools way back 2004 and now in Forums he attended, however, I can’t detect any trace of double-talk. He look at you straight in the eye as he talk extemporaneously full of sincerity, almost passionately.

He speaks of the truth from the heart.


WHAT COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH BEGINS IN THE HEART. Mbv discourses on alleviating the poorest of the poor from the fangs of hunger and shame. A kind of governance that promote commerce and programs that directly help them. As his humble beginnings likewise suffered abject poverty, he successfully freed himself from its clutches and became super rich by sheer determination,and hard work. And now he said, he wants to share his blessings, experience and competence, to rally the people in breaking free from the bondage of poverty, a malady that plague the Filipino nation from generation to generation.

National prosperity is his ultimate goal, an obsession that he pursued to the extent of pouring all his wealth for the upliftment of his country and people. “If I can come out triumphant from my own private war against poverty, he retorted, why can’t every Filipino do the same?” Given much better opportunity, they can do more for the welfare of the people: the whole nation breaking free from the bondage of poverty and national shame, and so he said and I quote: “but all that I have achieved would be nothing if at the end of my public life I would not have been able to translate my own success into the success of all our people”.


Truly, the words of MBV struck me as a strong evidence of an intense love. No doubt MBV is passionately in-love with the Filipino people, especially the less fortunate and marginalized. His life is not only a revelation of a person destined to lead this country and people, but also serves as a beacon light of a path to follow, a godly path that leads to life of prosperity.

It suggests to us that his life involves direction, decision, and determination to propel the nation into national dignity and recognition. MBVs’ life is not only the kind of success that we ordinarily know. It means much more than making a living. It means making a life that honors god as it serves others more important than riches and power, because his kind of a success helps you build for all eternity. Yes, the Filipino people are worth dying for, but we don’t need; to commit national suicide.

What we need is to have FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE, and he believes that LOVE of his people is the greatest of them all.