CHANGES

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Change. The world’s only permanent thing and yet one of the most battered words. In this era of innovation, it is difficult to think of something not going through the process called change. According to others, even change changes.

Today’s women with social rules as they struggle to break away from the society’s conservative standards. From the way they dress to their attitudes, women are being criticized. They are constantly frowned upon. Most people who object to women’s new ways of thinking raise their eyebrows and continue to argue on the proper behavior of women.

How long ago was it when we used to see girls inside the comfort of the homes when the clock struck six o’clock? When they held on to their skirts that were all below knee level? When they kept their mouth shit on “chizmiz” for they are encouraged not to have an opinion on such matters? Or when they stayed in a corner and prayed to at least be allowed to vote a national election? Probably those are now memories we should treasure.

Currently, women have earned their respective places in community. Their voice are being heard everywhere. Their ideas are accepted and honored. Their actions are being looked up to and admired. They have refined their own independence and broke the chains of ignorance. Women have known much more about their worth. We have our very own women leaders that never forget to balance power and heart (Pres. Gloria Arroyo).

Modern Maria Clara’s as we have called them, do more than cook, or wash and sew clothes. A woman’s influenced has penetrated the walls in the stock markets and entrepreneurship. They can now spell and smell career under their noses. Even in the military and police force, the navy and air force the jobs where the dirty work was usually done by men, these are not anymore male’s sole control.

If before, were usually home earlier than when we are dismissed from our classes, now girls can have their social functions; go and shop at malls, and if not, stay at the campus to talk about the latest “chickaz” with their “barkadaz”.

Somehow, women can manage to show some skin now. They can dress themselves up in anyway they want. Even Filipina names have also changed in presentation. Seldom do we hear Maria, Juana and Apolinaria. Most of them are mocked now. They have been replaced by names like Mary, Jane and Apple. All of these indicates how liberated our women have become. From Maria’s they have now become the modern Marie’s.

Presently, a lot or almost everything has been altered in our society and all that we have to do is just adapt to them and accept the new demands of our time. As the cliché goes, what man can do, a woman will strive to do better. We have to accept the truth or we can say the fact that nothing will ever really stay the same as they were before.