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There is one main reason that Filipinos have in leaving their country, the Philippines, and that would be financial reasons. It is a somewhat common fact that Filipinos have a tendency to think that the only way to get the real money is to leave their country. We have come to believe in the saying that the grass is greener on the other side and have decided that we want that grass. A vast amount of Filipinos have gone abroad to the Middle East, Europe, and North America in the hope that they can better their own life as well as their family through the money that they expect to earn. Sometimes, though, this may not come to fruition.

This leads us to an underlying fact that many Filipinos believe that the only road to a fulfilled life is the road out of the Philippines. The privileged few are able to send themselves to school out of country for their tertiary education for a jumpstart in a career. They’re also able to find doctors out of the country for extremely complicated procedures that the doctors in the Philippines are not ready to handle, or so they believe. Going on this belief – that there are greener pastures – many also believe that sneaking out of the Philippines and into their country of choice will give them a new chance at life and a positive outlook.

In future response to this culture of leaving our own country, Rizal could have been saying quite a lot to us. He himself had left the Philippines in order to escape the prying eyes of the authorities and also to educate himself. He had a passion to establish a country of equality in the Philippines and saw to it that he would do everything in his power to make sure that he would succeed. Using himself as an example, wouldn’t it be possible that he wanted to tell the Filipinos to not only further their own comfort but to help Mother Philippines?

He could have been trying to tell us that we mustn’t think of purely selfish reasons when leaving the country but have the clarity to remember our roots and try to help our country in any way we can. For those working abroad, they should remember their family and help out in at least a financial way. For those being educated abroad, it’s quite obvious on what they should do – go use their newly attained skills to aid in the progress of the Philippines. It may be a reversal of what they did in trying to escape from the Philippines but it’s sometimes said that those who have forgotten where they have come from have forgotten their own selves.

The main aspect I want to show here in this short piece is how the Filipinos who go abroad in furthering their own lives need to live their life and try their hardest for success. In succeeding, they shouldn’t keep to themselves the fruits of their harvest but also share this success with their home country. This choice, as stated, is strictly limited to the Filipinos who have gone out of country to live a better lifestyle whether it is by working or learning.