Stephanie Nicole Ella Case: What can we do with this celebratory gunfire during New Year's Eve

Just watched the news today and again the News about the little girl who died because of celebratory gunfire during New Year's Eve. Sad faces of her classmates were shown because they miss their friend who loves to have fun. I guess she's a very upbeat and positive girl.
 
She has a little brother that is so young and her parents don't know how to explain to him that his sister is gone. It really cuts my heart while watching this.



I remember the things I learned when we did our animation business last year. We learned something about tribal leadership. I was thinking about this while watching the news. I'm asking myself who is to blame with this issue.

Since I'm practicing not to blame people, I started to think about this in a different perspective. I based the perspective in the things I learned in tribal leadership. The problem roots in the culture. It's not necessarily the Filipino culture but the culture of human beings in general.

The people who do criminal acts, suicide, neglect the value of life and so on can be in the same culture based on tribal leadership (Google search Tribal Leadership Book and you can download free ebook to know more). Do we blame them for having this kind of culture? They may have their contributions for having this kind of culture and of course we also do have our share of contribution.

The recommendation of the book is to help this people upgrade their culture to a better one. The culture that they have as of the moment is ''life sucks" culture. They see happy people as just pretending to be happy. The assume that happy people also have a miserable life and they just pretend to be ok with their lives. That is why, people in this state do not value life.


To upgrade the culture, it takes steps and a process. It would probably take a long time. And it doesn't work to everybody. Only to the people who are willing to improve their culture and lives can it work. Knowing this, I began to reflect more: what little things can I and a few people do? After understanding a bit about these people, what can we do?

I guess I can only start with the people around me. Just like the saying think globally and work locally. And maybe if the circle grows, we could influence more people and share the successes. It would be great that not only the government will take the initiative in doing something.

Ludwig

Photos by Valine Villanueva