MOST often, there is a need for repeated reminders on issues so that the public, including government agencies, will become aware and be involved in them.

Some of these issues involve the environment and climate change.

True. There are in place laws and pieces of legislation designed to keep the environment clean and orderly but complacency sometimes takes the better of us and we tend to relax our guard as far as safeguarding our gains in environmental cleanliness is concerned.

We tend to have short memories on things of import and significance and only after misfortunes strike do we ruefully go back to our plans. Pity us therefore for these little shortcomings, we'd say.

We do have plans, oh, we do, but it takes a while before we implement them. We proscrastinate too often so the plans become relegated to the back burner.

We have nice projects but they become stale and irrelevant when we take too long to start them. They become passe' and forgotten in due time.

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The K to 12 syndrome. Some national legislators are seriously looking at the beneficial effects, if any, of the K-12 program introduced in the Basic Education syllabus.

Is it really worth extending the school lives of students? Can the K-12 syndrome bring good innovations in the students' upbringing and educational enlightenment? Would they be really ready for gainful employment sans college degrees?

Some of the legislators are now having second thoughts about the wisdom of extending the students' school lives. Some skeptics among them are mulling over some legislations to terminate the scheme and bring respite to overburdened parents.