As if an annual ritual in the closing year, some of my colleagues send me emails and messages questioning the fate of our anomaly group. A new year relates to salary increase approved by The House of Representatives. It always brings a bitter sweet feeling. Every fiber of our core hopes it will bring changes to our current state. Yet, deep down, we somehow know that it will only bring a sad premonition, a taste of hopelessness. No matter how much digit IPK (working performance index) we get, our salary will remain staying as an anomaly that will always have a domino effect on other facilities we receive. With higher grade, higher IPK, we receive less and less every year. We are the forgotten, lost inside the collective memory of the policy makers.
As always, words of wisdom are left as our soothsayer. It stands as a remedy to our broken spirit. Yet, this year, perhaps, I no longer have such comforting words for my colleagues sharing the same boat with me. That would be asking them to swallow a hot iron down their throat. It would be just cruel.
All I can offer now is an encouragement of not to give up. My Dear fellow anomaly group, great moments are born from great opportunity. Let's prove it right! We have bled, cried, and fell; over and over again these past three years. We have seen how high ranking officials always try to save their own neck first. We have witnessed how we are sacrificed as the poor lambs. We have been cut, scarred, and trampled over and over again. We have suffered losses. We have endured too many.
Yet, we refuse to back down. We refuse to give up. We refuse to go down without a fight. We may tumble and crumble. We seal the wound, then heal. Someday, we will see a wind of change. Someday, we will witness that even a voice from a commoner can make a diiference.
As in life, it is all just a game of inches. We have a thorny bridge to cross, a hellish road to conquer. We put one foot in front of the other and keep on moving inch by inch, yard by yard. That's what makes it different. Winning or losing doesn't matter because we have given our best.
People will say we will lose the battle. But I can assure you that we are the winners so long we pay our dues. So long we hold our head high and complete our job satisfactorily. This misfortune will not break our character. This will make us stronger. We will prove them that we are so much better!
As always, words of wisdom are left as our soothsayer. It stands as a remedy to our broken spirit. Yet, this year, perhaps, I no longer have such comforting words for my colleagues sharing the same boat with me. That would be asking them to swallow a hot iron down their throat. It would be just cruel.
All I can offer now is an encouragement of not to give up. My Dear fellow anomaly group, great moments are born from great opportunity. Let's prove it right! We have bled, cried, and fell; over and over again these past three years. We have seen how high ranking officials always try to save their own neck first. We have witnessed how we are sacrificed as the poor lambs. We have been cut, scarred, and trampled over and over again. We have suffered losses. We have endured too many.
Yet, we refuse to back down. We refuse to give up. We refuse to go down without a fight. We may tumble and crumble. We seal the wound, then heal. Someday, we will see a wind of change. Someday, we will witness that even a voice from a commoner can make a diiference.
As in life, it is all just a game of inches. We have a thorny bridge to cross, a hellish road to conquer. We put one foot in front of the other and keep on moving inch by inch, yard by yard. That's what makes it different. Winning or losing doesn't matter because we have given our best.
People will say we will lose the battle. But I can assure you that we are the winners so long we pay our dues. So long we hold our head high and complete our job satisfactorily. This misfortune will not break our character. This will make us stronger. We will prove them that we are so much better!
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