Rizal's Unconditional Love

Mi Ultimo Adios, the last poem of the National Hero of the Philippines, Dr. Jose Rizal is composed mainly of his farewell but challenging message to the country and the Filipino people.Our country, the Republic of the Philippines is a beautiful country blessed by God with favorable climate and wonderful natural resources. Every Filipino, being blessed by God, should give all their strength to be able to preserve and protect this gift, even to the extent of giving his own life. There, those patriots who fought and died with all their power and strength, those who loves his country's sake than his own vulnerable life, and those who fought with their mighty pen and ended in martyrdom. All of them have a common cause, to serve his countrymen.
On the day of Dr. Rizal's Martyrdom at Bagumbayan, he knew that every Filipino's dream of freedom from the long-year slavery from the Spanish bad friars and tyrants will soon be realized. But today, it's a different story but of the same plot. We, Filipinos, are free as a country yet still imprisoned by the political, economical, social, and cultural crises. It is every Filipino's dream to live in a society and a country as a whole which is in peace and prosperity, but the chain since the Spanish regime was not totally broken. Here we are, not a slave anymore but a nomad in a country of jeopardy. Our National Hero died and he was happy for the day of freedom of his country is nearing. Out National Hero have a beautiful dream for our country. He dreamed of a country that is in peace and free from any forms of inhumane acts. The struggle of freedom is endless and should be continued even in the times that we feel we are in that state of being "free". It is what Filipinos think of what is happening today. We are the author of our own fate. The power is in us. Our country today is suffering from a lot of deadly political, economical, and social diseases. There are those political issues which keep on killing our economy and those social diseases which not only destroy families but also the "hope of our fatherland". We should not only rely on our leaders to solve these problems, for we are the nation, we are the state, and we are duty bound to protect and promote the common good for our fatherland, which is also us. Therefore, we should not only move now; it should be all the time. Rizal died along with other heroes who had also fought for our common dream. But there also exist those "victims" who were not able to fight physically and was weak enough to stand in their own aftermath. We, the Filipinos of today, their sons and daughters, the one they fought for yesterday, should pray for all of them and should act in order to prevent another one to come. It is happening today, and the number of victims is still the same. The Filipino nation should protect and take care of the unfortunate ones for they are our brothers and they contribute to the development of us and the country. When our dreams will be fulfilled and we are living in a happy life, we should not forget that we are Filipinos the people of the Pearl of the Orient. The spirit of a Filipino patriot should reside in our heart and soul. A patriot who do not only fight with guns and bolos in the battlefield; a patriot who do not only parade their protests in the streets; a patriot who do not only use pen as his weapon; a patriot who do not only assemble with his fellow men and call for reforms; a patriot who do not only run for a government position to lead his country to a better life; a patriot who do not only share his extras with the unfortunate ones; a patriot who do not only pray for peace and for the best of the all; but a patriot who perform his very own duty as a Filipino, with all his heart, that is to serve not only to Filipinos but all men with justice and with love. Even our country is not completely free, nor completely peaceful, nor in rapid progress, if we will just have this heart of a Filipino patriot, then, it's a perfect world after all. Dr. Jose Rizal will then be happy with his rest wherever he is. This is Rizal what is trying to say in his Mi Ultimo Adios.