During my recent vacation trip to the Philippines, inside the plane I have a chance to sit beside a returning engineer. We have an exchange of stories during our 8 hours travel back home. I learned that he is working for 20 years now in the Middle East, 5 years in Saudi Arabia and currently in Qatar. He is holding a very good position in Qatar Petroleum earning a very big salary. He left working from NPC in the Philippines.
Now I realized that this is one of the so called unsung heroes who keep on pumping needed dollars in our country sacrificing lost precious time with his wife and children. In our project and my company where I am working there are also handful of this elite who for almost their lifetime work abroad to sustain or send their family into a much better life in the Philippines.
Although this I can say and in my opinion not a normal life for a family man being away, like in my situation going for two years now, we really deserve a very good life in retiring or settling back in the Philippines. Good life mean to me as having successful sons and daughters, taking care of my wife, nice savings, fulfilling spiritual life, decent properties or even a modest business.
I hope our countryman or the government we left in the Philippines will have a heart to focus working on preserving country's environment, sustaining peace and order, improving public infrastructures/transportations, establishing honest and efficient governance. Those are the things we only asked for after being an instrument to contribute building malls, condominiums, subdivisions, strengthening banks and businesses where our families funneling the resources we send back home. Philippines is our home, nowhere else.
By the way the man whom I have a chat in the airplane have his trip in the Philippines early not only to celebrate the Christmas season but also to tend to his daughter who is sick of Dengue.
No comments:
Post a Comment