TODAY is “Boxing Day” in WASP (Western Anglo-Saxon Protestant) societies. Children put in boxes most of the gifts received for storing or for giving to children in poor families. But it is also the day when children of all societies, including ours in the Philippines, realize sadly that their parents, ninongs and uncles did not fulfill some of their Christmas-gift promises.

It is also the same with the promises made to us Filipinos by President Rody Duterte. The promises he has failed to begin fulfilling or has actually failed to do is making many of us sad like children.

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