SABBATICAL NOTES. 31 MARCH 2014. N3. MONDAY. Maylene Morcoso says some OFWs are not telling the truth. SOMETIMES, THE PROBLEM lies on the OFW herself or himself, so says Maylene Morcoso, one of the three friends I met in a Zurich park. I know some who never tell their families how difficult life is over here, and that the money we send does not grow from trees, she said. Some OFWs put up a front that OFW work is fun, and that there is an endless supply of the money that comes from that work even if so much of the money is a loan from others. Some OFW pretend--and they pretend a lot. I know this to be some kind of a compensation, some way of assuaging ones feeling of guilt for being absent from the life of our family, such as our children. But this act of putting up of a front , of wearing mask, is counterproductive. Our families tend to develop dependency, and that in the end, all they know is ask money from us as if we are the central bank. This has got to stop. We have to educate our respective families and tell them that the money we send them is equivalent to our strength, pride, dignity, and decency. We do not pick money from the streets. We work long hours, we work so hard, we are always at the mercy of our bosses, she says. I just listened. And I fully understood. ZURICH/ 29 March 2014
Posted on: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 03:24:03 +0000
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