Getting pushed around the train’s exit by a person just centimeters away from the door and having to endure their futile shouts of “excuse me” can really heat up my very irritable head. Can’t they wait for the train to stop and the person in front to move aside? Nope. It can also happen the other way around, a person stubbornly defending his place beside the exit blocking any easy attempts to get out. Can’t he step out for a while, so everyone gets out easy? Nope.

A jeepney driver dislodging passengers in the middle of the road, people who cut in between queues, people who can’t think outside the box and visualize the bigger picture, a small time barangay official pilfering from the community stash to congressmen and senators who do the same but on a larger scale. Discipline or lack or it, comes in all forms and magnitude.

The saying “Only in the Philippines” is painfully real. A saying that has roots in the lack of discipline nowadays in the Philippines. A very visible example is the state of Philippine traffic. One moment your drving on a very fluid stretch of road, suddenly your stuck in 30 minutes of traffic. The cause? Buses taking up two lanes beacuse drivers are too lazy to park the bus properly on the rightmost lane to pickup/dropoff passengers.

*Still drafting* But you can comment on the issues. Thanks.