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The People Will Live to Die Another Day, and that Day is NOT in this Lifetime!

I was reading Condrado de Quiros' article during lunch break and had to ask:

Why do history repeat itself?

Why is it that the Philippines has always to be in a position where people has to say "Ang Mamatay ng Dahil Sayo". Our ancestors have already given us the clue to the answer but the clue had been always been misinterpreted(or interpreted singularly). Old folks would always say "Ang hindi lumingon sa pinanggalingan, hindi makakarating sa paroroonan". Indeed not reaching your goals is fearsome, that is why the quote is used most of the time. But we seldom hear the interpretation of it which says "If we cant learn from the past, history, or previous mistake, we can not push through".

As engineers by training, we always have said, its hard to learn from our mistakes, lets learn from the mistake of others from the past, we can't build a building and kill hundreds of people because we need to learn from our mistake.

People let us learn to the past.


Here is an anecdote from de Quiros:

Three drivers were being interviewed to drive for a rich man. Asked how good a driver they were, the first answered: "Sir, if I were your driver, even if one wheel of our car juts out into the cliff on a mountain road, I will make sure to save us." The second answered: "Sir, if I were your driver, even if both wheels of our car juts out into the cliff on a mountain road, I will make sure to save us." The third answered: "Sir, if I were your driver, I will make sure we do not get into that situation." What will you do if tomorrow one pillar of our country collapsed? Surely a lot heroes will be made there. But isn't it great if the pillar have never collapsed after all? What can you do to prevent this?