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Marvin Leonardo commented about Utang Na Loob, On Thursday June 25th, 2009 11:53:48 AM
I have discovered a cycle that needs to be broken in the Philippines unbiblical and backward looking culture. Philippine parents give to their children even if their children are already old thinking they can demand it back later on in their old age. Children even when they are old keep asking from their parents thinking it will be demanded back to them later on in their parents old age. What is wrong in this scenario? Parents thought that once their educational obligation is finished they can just live life easy through gambling, drinking and so many other ways of wasting money and time. While the current generation children will help the remaining kids (siblings mostly 3 or more) to finish school to the point of marrying late or not marrying at all. The next generation will suffer greatly because of lack of forward looking preparation of the past/old generation. Utang na loob or hindi marunong tumingin sa pinanggalingan causes more sorrow and corruption in our country. Because of this idea in the long run the country will become poorer and weaker. Because of backward thinking, the old generation will pull down the current generation. The current generation will pull down the future genration. And the cycle will repeat itself. We call this talangka mentality.
Let me explain. In the first world country like Canada, this how they see life. The parents will raised up children and prepare for their childrens lives up to the age of 18 years old or once finish university (some only upto high school). They are trained and expected by society to live on their own by the age of 18. After finishing school, children are expected to live for themselves while the parents will prepare and save for their old age and prepare to live an inheritance to the future generation (grand kids). The parents will not demand or obliged their children because they know that their children will build a family and to raised up their own children. The old children will not asked from their parents because society expects them to live on their own. No strings attached and no one is obligating no one except providing for the future generations. The mind set is that, the future generation should be better that the current generation.
The first world mentality has a closer biblical way in raising a family, a society and a nation.
The sooner the children can live on their own the sooner they can build a family of their own. While the grand parents by this time are already finacially prepared for old age and had save enough to leave an inheritance not for their children but for their childrens children.
Our duty is to prepare the future of the next generation, our children. When its our time to grow old, we will not be burdensome to our children in our old age because we have prepared for that time.
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