Timeliness: A Problem Among MANY Filipinos!

It's really a BIG problem in the Philippines that most Filipinos operate on Filipino time. I can't help but think how much consequences this kind of modus operandi has affected much of the images Filipinos have abroad. And how true. Let's think of how thins type of movement is such a BAD THING NOT TO BE PROUD OF:

• If one operates based on being late, investments can be closed earlier than they think.
• Performers wake up early to be on the practice on time only to discover that their instructor is the one who's late.
  
• Audiences will be snoring for an hour just to wait for the program to begin.
• Creativity is stifled because of tardiness.
  
• If the school's model is in always being late, the students are most likely to carry that bad attitude too when they work.
• People who are to deal with their other important stuff are most likely to suffer.
• In the world of chemistry, wrong timing can destroy the whole community.
  
• And not to mention lives are involved. A pregnant woman can die and not be able to deliver the baby/babies. Think about more than one fatality in one setting!

It's been an issue also that many Filipinos will say, "Are you sure you're Filipino? If you like being on time, go to a Communist country." Just imagine- being proud of the stereotype of being late. Assuming that Communism becomes the Philippine way of government, a LOT of government employees will get killed per day!

Also, being untimely is LYING. Why? 1:00 is always 1:00 on the clock, not on one's own timing just as 1 + 1 = 2. It's not keeping one's word of honor.