My EDTECH 101 (Instructional Media Resources) is a very media-savvy class, more than I expected it to be. We may start a class with a PPT, a song, or a YouTube video like this link.
Today, we watched and listened to this song in the beginning of the class. It was touching and I had to fight back some tears because I didn't want to look too emotional among my classmates. It was a beautiful song though not all my classmates seem to agree when the professor asked if we liked the song. Watching it elicited images and feelings of sadness and worry from the recent tragedy that fell our countrymen in the Visayas region.
"How are the majority of the survivors? Have I extended enough help? What's happening in those places now? What efforts are still being done, for how long, and how can I help?". These were questions that whirled through my mind like the storm surge that claimed so many lives and property in Tacloban, Leyte, Samar, and nearby provinces.
The truth is, our job is not yet done. Yes, it is "our" job, to continue to contribute and help out at the relief operations. It is "our" job to know and be informed of the state and progress of our fellowmen's struggle to rise and triumph over this tragedy that has challenged their bodies, their minds, and our spirit as a people. It is "our" job because it's the ethical thing to do; because it is nobody else's job but ours; because though a song may remind us of what we have to do; we already know it deep within us.
Our job is not yet done.
