JOINT STATEMENT ON THE SENATE MINORITY WALKOUT
We strongly condemn what appears to be an attempt to rush a major change in the Senate Rules, especially when several members of the minority still wanted to speak and raise serious questions on the floor.
Bakit kailangang madaliin? Bakit kailangang pigilan ang mga gustong magsalita? Bakit kailangang i-divide ang house kung marami pang senador ang nagtatanong tungkol sa proseso?
Minamadali ba ang rule change na ito dahil gusto nilang maka boto si Senator Bato? At ngayong may mga ulat na may mga majority senators na maaaring arestuhin?
We walked out because what happened on the floor looked less like orderly deliberation. The proposed rule change affects how senators may attend sessions, participate in proceedings and exercise their mandate through remote means, and such a measure should be opened to healthy public debate instead of being rushed by the tyranny of the majority.
We have always welcomed healthy discussions on the floor, but this should mean allowing all members to be heard, not forcing the chamber to move at the speed preferred by the majority.
At the time the motion was taken up, there was no duly constituted Committee on Rules and there was not even an elected Majority Leader who could properly guide a rules amendment through the regular process.
How could there have been any action or discussion before the Committee on Rules when no Committee on Rules has been organized to date?
With due respect, the answer that no Senate rule had been violated does not settle the matter, because the rules cannot be treated as a matter of convenience when the very process for amending them is under serious question.
The timing raises a question that the public deserves to hear debated openly. Kaya pinili naming tumayo at iwan ang majority sa plenary. Kaya kami nagdesisyon to question the quorum and call for adjournment.
If the proposal is truly defensible, then let it pass through the proper route.
We owe it to the people who voted for us to do our mandate. This is why we want more time to discuss this further.
According to psychology. when someone knows they treated you wrong, they avoid you. It's called guilty conscience. They don't have the maturity to apologize for their disrespectful actions, and since they lack accountability, they simply remove themselves from your life.
Kayo din ba? There are days that you will not have energy for anyone. Days that you feel like spending your time alone, pero it doesn’t mean people around you are no longer important or the things you love no longer excite you. So,take the time that you need to be yourself again.
As long as your intentions are pure, don't stress over anything or anyone. Trust that you will always end up exactly where you're meant to be, and that nothing is ever truly your loss.
empathy burnout is real, after all these years of understanding the people around you, trying to put yourself on their situation, putting others first before you, and now you're drained and have became indifferent.
I don't know who needs to hear this but normalize moving on silently when someone doesn't want you. You don't need to send them long messages and beg them to see your worth. Let them lose you and find out once you're gone what they lost.
I don’t even have big words for it. I just feel… heavy. And I’m quietly praying for strength because I don’t want to drown in my own emotions.
I just needed to let this out.
I don’t really know how to explain it.
It just feels like everything is happening inside me all at once. The sadness, the longing, the confusion, the memories I thought I already made peace with. Parang sabay-sabay silang bumalik.
Some days I feel okay. Strong even. And then there are nights like this when it feels like I’m back at square one again. Like I’m relearning how to hold myself together.
My bf paid my $2,000 tuition payment a couple months ago cause I was broke & I just tried to pay him back and this boy really said "no it's okay remember that one time you paid for chipotle when I forgot my wallet" like in what way is that equal at all lmaoooo I'm cryinggg