The Ultimate Pandoy Mentality

Lurking around malls, campuses, barrios, villages and hearing the young Pandoy kids today one may find them amusing, often these kids hang around their homes as groups, ‘barkadas’ by the time they reach young adulthood they are now on a route, seeking the most ‘in’ thing their peers can produce, come the most obnoxious trend of a neighbor having the excellence of landing a job and a luxury, these group of young kids, barely making it out of their schools alive, suffers a chronic dilemma of a redartade attitude making a yard stick of that person thinking life is easy “..see our nerdy neighbor made it! It will be probably much easier for me!” ten years later their neighbor had moved out and had traveled to different countries twice and them still the ol’ pandoy, they would now think that their neighbor was not fair and believes that there is an injustice to the system. …”(They) had tried their best and their best is just not good enough” A line from the lyrics of their present favorite past-time the karaoke, can be heard of them singing!

This mentality of thinking that their government, the system, the corporate people, the public, the masses, the foreigners, the universe in a greater term are against them in some ultimate systematic and ritualistic way is a delusion and a mental stigma that the young pandoy carries for over a couple of centuries now. Things never evolved for them, if the motorized tractors for plowing fields was never introduced to their great grand fathers after WWII they would probably still tender carabaos under their houses and till the farm until sunset and go the the nearest internet café after to play counter strike and sing their favorite tunes via the karaoke! All is a constant to pandoy and anything outside them are the ultimate extremities that it just matters because it’s the ‘in’ thing. Technology seems never shed a light to young pandoy’s head.

Crime today if they hear it’s done in a foreign country would probably be repeated here in the exact manner, copy-cat delusional deviant!

Whatever the ‘in’ thing for today is what pandoy will ultimately aim for, with or without, he will aim for the sky. Funny is, most of the Filipinos of today has learnt the value of investing (i.e., school, college, career, as well as in finance, etc.), in here the pandoys are at an end! They find no light at the end of the tunnel! To them the world has held a conspiracy that pandoys are looked as a third-world minority and they believe some sort of outer hand is doing this to them! They believe it’s cool (investing) that they should be able to do it as well! They believe whatever everybody is doing should be applicable to them as well. Probably Time had played a curse among their kind, they keep hitting the wall and still they cannot still find the light.

This is a REAL dilemma! May god help pandoy!