And now I am really ambivalent towards P-Noy. Sometimes I do have misgivings on the consistency of his thinking, on his mindset, for there have been a couple of times when he himself displayed some behavior or judgment which one might find either theatrical or just plainly eccentric. One day in New York he would take to the hot dog stand to scorn at Gloria Arroyo’s Le Cirque freak that gave off a gaseous stink of her visit in the city in the twilight of her term, and the other day P-Noy would come out of the garage honking with his new Porsche. Once he will talk against haughtiness and the other day he will just put a foot in his mouth.
No vitriol. One may be correct when he says that this is among Aquino’s right, that even though he is a public figure he still deserves to be treated as a normal person who has the right to acquire not only everything he needs, but everything he wants as well just like any other people residing in this Great Island Nation (Newsbreak’s Inside Track has just proven the foregoing paragraph wrong).
But we are not talking about our rights here. We are talking about leadership, leadership and the gravity of its concomitant responsibilities. Sacrifice is the number one tenet of leadership, and being an example is the second. Transformative leadership is the ability to enforce change by starting it from within. From this point begins a wave of inspiration that will be emulated by a people who in the ankle of our downtrodden times are looking for an idol, a hero that can provide them the will to carry on and contribute to his neighbor’s recovery, moved by the very sacrifice his leader has exhibited; an icon who will prove that selflessness is not a romanticism of the past. Today when our correct sense of right and wrong is fast disappearing to the evils of liberal materialism, our people badly needs a leader that will show them that words can no longer make the virtue of our time.
All we need is action.
No vitriol. One may be correct when he says that this is among Aquino’s right, that even though he is a public figure he still deserves to be treated as a normal person who has the right to acquire not only everything he needs, but everything he wants as well just like any other people residing in this Great Island Nation (Newsbreak’s Inside Track has just proven the foregoing paragraph wrong).
But we are not talking about our rights here. We are talking about leadership, leadership and the gravity of its concomitant responsibilities. Sacrifice is the number one tenet of leadership, and being an example is the second. Transformative leadership is the ability to enforce change by starting it from within. From this point begins a wave of inspiration that will be emulated by a people who in the ankle of our downtrodden times are looking for an idol, a hero that can provide them the will to carry on and contribute to his neighbor’s recovery, moved by the very sacrifice his leader has exhibited; an icon who will prove that selflessness is not a romanticism of the past. Today when our correct sense of right and wrong is fast disappearing to the evils of liberal materialism, our people badly needs a leader that will show them that words can no longer make the virtue of our time.
All we need is action.
1 reacted:
Yes, he must learn to sacrifice his whims and act as a good example of using and maximizing one's resources well.
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