High hopes for the New Year

After struggling through a dismal year of natural and man-made calamities, even the advent of the New Year has not quickly dispelled the dark around us. Try as we may to be hopeful, we are tortured by the thought that our leaders and institutions will not perform any better this year, perhaps faring even worse.

President Aquino says we’re now in the last two minutes of his presidential term, meaning that it’s like the final minutes of a basketball game, when victory or defeat is decided. He wants to win. He’s confident that he can still win the game for himself and for us.