A Letter For The President

Dear President Duterte,

                       How are you sir? I hope you’re healthy and well. I am not able to vote for you in 2016 election because I’m not yet allowed to vote to, but many people are rooting for you.

 

                     As Filipinos dwelling overseas, we had excessive hopes that you'll be authentic to the guarantees which you uttered while you have been nevertheless going for walks for presidency. As years passed, we've got visible how you've got got dealt with the conditions that our u . s . a . has confronted and are nevertheless facing. You had selections that have been good; you had movements that had deadly consequences.

 

                      When the COVID-19 pandemic began out to invade our country, we have been hopeful which you could be on top of everything. But as we watched you deal with your countrymen in mild of the situation, our hearts sank. We predicted higher from you. Must it's your age, or perhaps your health? Or possibly the humans surrounding you? We do now no longer know. But we nevertheless saved on believing and hoping. We persevered to consider and recognize you due to the fact we consider that we're known as to honor our leaders.

 

                         But heartbreaking news, one after another, bombarded our social media walls. Aside from the developing quantity of COVID-19 nice instances withinside the Philippines, the various Filipinos now no longer being capable of acquire assist from the government, the frontliners now no longer having sufficient non-public shielding equipment, POGOs nevertheless operating, and everyday residents being positioned to prison for violating quarantine measures at the same time as the wealthy doing the identical are loose to do so, such a lot of extra matters made us pray earnestly for the country.

 

                       We believed in you. We nonetheless do. And we can keep to consider and recognize you; despite the fact that there are numerous times, we disagree with you. We will pray for you, that you may have information as you're making decisions. We will pray that you may lead in righteousness and justice. We pray for renewed ardour for the country and compassion closer to your humans. We pray for grace to awaken every day, understanding which you had been given the privilege to make a high-quality effect to the country you're leading. We additionally claim best fitness upon you.

 

                      Several Philippine Presidents had been ousted due to the fact they did not lead the country well, and that they selected to pursue their egocentric targets earlier than the desires in their humans. This isn't always my desire for you. It is my prayer that you may redeem yourself, that you may show your enemies wrong, such as the ones whose agree with in you're waning. I desire that you may end your time period with flying colors, despite the fact that what’s earlier than you're gloomy and dark.

 

                     President Duterte, many humans suppose and communicate unwell of you. I apprehend them. People are hurting. People are suffering. But to talk unwell of you, even when you have damaged my coronary heart many times, is the closing issue I will do due to the fact I recognize which you love your humans and also you need what’s fine for them. Will you show me right? I’m rooting for you.

 

A concerned citizen,

Princess Anne, a student from ISNHS