BAGUIO CITY – Mayor Mauricio G. Domogan challenged every resident of the city to reforms themselves as part of their New Year resolution to help the city achieve its goals and objectives of making the city a peaceful and orderly place to live, work, study and do business in.
The local chief executive exhorted that setting a good personal example is the best way to influence others to change their ways of life for the better, thus, everyone must start changing their attitude, behaviour, and outlook in life so that they will be able to set an example for others to emulate.
“Change should always start in ourselves. We can influence others to reform if they see we ourselves have changed our ways of life for the better, abandoned our vices, and are striving to improve our status in life without stepping on the toes of others,” Domogan stressed.
He pointed out vices such as smoking, drinking liquor, gambling among others will force people to find ways on how to sustain these, thus, they may have to resort to illegal activities that will taint their reputation, thus, the need to abandon such vices to avoid burdening themselves looking for means to sustain their vices and compromise their status in life.
The Mayor believes the best gift a person can give himself or herself for the new year is to abandon these vices and focus on performing well in their professions that will bring them success which can also improve their resources.
By using the message of Christmas which is peace, love, humility, sharing and caring, he claimed people can lessen their burden in life if they forgive and make peace with their enemies and spread love, sharing and caring to those who are in need.
He explained a person can be a model for the members of his or her family by improving his or her ways of life and such collective attitude and behaviour of their family can serve as an example for their community to emulate.
Domogan asserted it is best for everyone to simply improve their ways in life to succeed in their respective endeavour and to help the city to improve its status as a highly-urbanized city.
He pointed out one can help the city improve this status by following simple rules and regulations such as by not smoking in public places, not littering in public places, observing traffic rules and regulations, and adhering to the rules and regulations promulgated by the city to instil discipline among the people.
He looks forward to the time that residents will be law-abiding citizens and make the city a place with highly disciplined and competitive people serving as a benchmark for other people in other places in the global village to follow and emulate.
By Dexter A. See