In God, We Trust

By: Tony Rose Y. Paguirigan

The circumstance as it stands today is that corruption is no mumble as to any person. At this very moment, it has now become a way of living, it has been so directly and strongly contrived into life patterns of some people that, some only thinks much about it. This is because the structure has been let loose and in so many decades, some people are so involved in corruption that the subject matter is no longer that worthy in any such discussions.

Corruption exists and it is active in every parts of the world and, conceivably, without knowing it, is affecting and distressing many people in countless unlike ways. The outcome of corruption goes so far that even the whole nations are being affected by it. In what ways are they being affected? Why does corruption keeps on spreading like an HIV virus? Will this deadly, undesirable and wicked sin end some day? Many people have asked themselves these same questions. Because of corruption, some people suffer from poverty, poor health and low life expectancy, and these are some of the problems that the nations have to go through.

Corruption is a type of self-interest; sensitively and expressively encourage the some people to do or not to do anything in order to make such personal gains. Basically, it pertains to selfishness or self-centeredness of one individual in order to pursue his self-interest. This devious act may result to inconsiderate circumstances for the victims or sufferers, such as poverty.

Corruption affects a nation’s development, it is like a virus, and it remains as a serious state, financial, economic, and political and thus, a worldwide problem since then. In this very second, to explore and discover how this virus was allowed to develop and become large, the intact system has been affected and considered like an HIV Virus, totally incurable. It happens by spreading all the way through the entire system and still there is no cure for it. The answer to this question is quite simple. Since this virus was not treated in its earlier stages, it grew to this magnum size, which at present defies any treatment. It is not that the community did not know about the virus entering the system but, it was overlooked or ignored and therefore the outcome is here for all of the people to witness and feel. If only the corruption had been prevented at its very first exposure, it would not have dared to grow like a virus and contained in the present years.

Every person is neck deep plunged in this malady which had taken a passage of time and even took until in the present structure. It is a wonder, who will punish the corrupt? When in every organ of the system is corrupt to the hilt, who is there to situate all things right? The verity of all is that today, corruption has seeped deep into every corner of the entire system and there appears to be no light at the end of the tunnel, having no hope.