A Reaction To Who Wants To Be A Filipino? - by me

At the first glance of the essay, I was quite shocked to see an author who isn’t proud to be a Filipino. Quite an ungrateful person, I thought to myself, but I realized his correctness, he mentioned the Philippine’s current state of affairs, it is pathetic; add to that there are growing number of Filipinos leaving the country by the hour; quite drastic to hear and witness the increase in the number of nursing students. Their sole reason is that our country has no chance in achieving its position in the past, the bonafide country that was once the richest in the Southeast Asia.
I never had a clue on the reason why Mr. Yumul wrote this essay, random thoughts just flowed through my mind hoping that this is the real reason why he disseminated these ideas to us. I was in 4th year high school when I read this essay of his in Bakit baliktad magbasa ng libro ang mga Pilipino? I was completely ignorant about him, so I was not really sure if my realizations were correct or not so here goes, I thought that he was just a Filipino who is tired of the damnations that this country is suffering so he wanted to voice out his sentiments to people concerned making a sound in the written industry. Another insight is that he was trying to unify the people by giving immersed criticisms that could truly cause a lot of people to fuse, curse him and be nationalistic.
I was lucky enough to encounter him on campus (Trinity College of Quezon City) when I heard a rumor that there was this terror professor who was a writer and who assigns a lot of tasks to his students, when I asked who this professor was, they anxiously said, “Yumul”. I’ve heard this surname before but I can’t put my fingers to it until he became my oral communication professor last summer. At the first meeting he assigned homework already, darn I was so stupid, that was the only time I realized that he was that writer who tried to barrage that nationalism of Filipinos, who is also became a nuisance to St. Louis University in Baguio when he wrote his essay, A Budding Atheist. Add to that, a professor who doesn’t approve of nurses leaving the country. He is not that ghastly, sarcastically I compare him to a suture that tries to mend the minds of those taking up nursing, making them realize what they really want. Quite dire but the demand for nursing drastically killed the future accountants, lawyers, doctors, and computer engineers. Now I realized that he just wanted in his essay is to preserve nationalism, making the gaps between doing what you really want and what you should want, in making our government and country work.
In all of his essays he never fails to mention this topic, nationalism. So for those who thought of him at first as a conceited, ungrateful idiot, think again; you are a victim of his scheme; he fooled you making you believe that he was anti-Filipino although his purpose was quite difficult to maneuver. Only a genius could do that, Herdy Yumul is a true mastermind.

I was uber bibo. hehehe To think I was able to come up with such reaction.