Garcia: The early worm

The early bird gets the early worm. I always thought this line only applied to my pres-school classmate who was always an hour early for class. I envied him, for each day, he gets to greet our teacher good morning before any one could. I was afraid my teacher would soon give him more gold stars than the rest of the class. But as I became more rational and thought more than just twinkling stars and jumbo-sized crayons, my eyes were opened to an appalling portrait of society's obsession to get ahead of one another. We see would-be political candidates each playing their game whether it maybe of altruistic origin as relief missions and house loans or simply getting the rubbish out in the open of other contenders. We see officemates having their own cup of coffee blended with creamy nepotism and sugary bribery towards looking... [read full story]