Philippines, a place where people take pride of their own ethnicity, culture and nationality. A place where it is bountiful in natural resources with great historic features. It is also known as land of gold and rich with specimens, natural resources, assets, treasures and beautiful places itself. And this is one of the reasons why the country of the Philippines was chosen to be colonized. Such history of ours had gradually shape our system, our society and prior regimes.
Though us as Filipinos had this great flaw which is compromising specifically, we let ourselves be compromised with the deceptive manipulators that made us compromised. Colonizers from a well stablished or wealthy country of Spain, America and Japan wanted more for their own places. They tried to manipulate every citizen in the country. For these developed countries wanted to make the developing countries Philippines is one these to be manipulated and become puppets. A peaceful life of Filipinos became a tragedy and brought burden on their living. From these colonizers, Filipinos experience a lot of suffering, abusive actions and discrimination. Stigma in the society is highly evident specially in the treatment of colonizers towards the country men.
Despite all the burdens and grief carried by the beloved nation, there are still the brave ones who would sacrifice their very well being just to fight and win for the noble nation of Philippines. Countrymen cried for independence for several years. For that time, revolutionary groups came out and fought for independence from the country's manipulators in their very own way either through writing speaking, bloody war and even smallest way to help their fellow countrymen. And one of the leaders who fought for the country was Andres Bonifacio y de Castro.
Moreover, Andres Bonifacio was the founder of the revolutionary group Kataastaasan Kagalang- galang na Katipunan ng mga anak ng Bayan who is also member of the revolutionary group for the country's independence. Bonifacio had courage to fight despite Rizal, his friend doesn’t want to fight in a bloody way but he still pursued his stand for there are no other ways to conquer the independence and its through unity of the countrymen.
Choosing Andres Bonifacio made me think a lot of why did I choose him as topic for this essay. Thinking about our history, Andres Bonifacio was the one who caught my attention because of his perseverance to fight for the country. There are three question that I would like to ask Andres Bonifacio. First is, why does Andres think that independence is important? This question is being throwed in a way of what independence are fighting for, it's just that they do not wanted to be claimed or there is something else they were trying to fight for. According to testimonies, Andres Bonifacio died because of this betrayal by our own countrymen. And because of that the troop of Andres become disable, to the point of their fighting hardly. So, the second question that I would like to ask him is how significant his contribution brought to the modern day. Because of his confidence of his own people, he opened the minds of the countrymen and let them have courage to not be enslaved. Lastly, I would ask him were his expectations met with Philippines current situation? Yes, the Philippines today meet the expected independence that Bonifacio always wanted. Knowing that there is progress happened in the country not just living independently but also with the different aspect for countries improvement.
As what the revolutionary group of Philippines fought who only wanted is freedom, it can be seen that all their efforts and what they fought for were achieved. It’s not easy to get independence that everyone was expecting. It takes a lot of works, courage and fighting spirit to gain the things that Filipinos do hope. The journey of Filipinos in the hands of colonizers was very hard to imagine. That they experience a lot of changes and downfalls. Now we gain what the Philippines deserve, and we still looking forward for more progressive and developed country. Loving our country makes us stronger and hard to be break. “What love can be purer and greater than love of country? What love? No other love, none.
