Think about it
Live for something
By Jun Velasco
“Sting like a bee, float like a butterfly,” Muhammad Ali
AS we celebrate Jesus Christ’s life on earth culminating in His ascent to heaven, we ask our readers to pause and reflect on the meaning of Lent.
It’s Wednesday morning that we wrote this column and not on the regular Friday deadline on the publisher’s directive since there’d be no work on the most solemn of days.
We urge the entire Christendom to unite as one universal body, aware that in the last analysis we are ALL one in Christ, yes, after the temporal gaiety, pleasures, humdrum living, ordeal, etcetera.
As we went to press, our attention was attracted by a Wednesday daily’s front page head “Muhammad Ali Pacquiao all the way.”
Hmm…what would that make of our favorite boxing analyst Mortz Ortigoza’s punch forecast of a Mayweather win?
Tuesday afternoon, we asked our Palanca-awardee sports authority Al Mendoza who he’d think will win? He sort of picked Mayweather with a snappy put-down “kung sino ang pananalunin ng Mafia!” He added, “Methinks it could go three ways, Mayweather to win the first; Pacquiao, the second, and nobody can tell the third.
The 3 way fight packs a lot of sense, since a mega-fight like this is surely ruled by money (that’s Mayweather’s namesake!)… unless an unscripted knock out from either one would decide the game.
Why are we on an Ali, Pacquiao, Mayweather mode on a Holy Week issue?
It is this. We agree with Ali’s pick on Pambansang Kamao for his own very noble reason: because Manny, not Money ha?, stands for something.
Ali’s daughter Rasheda said: “…it’s more about what he does outside the ring. He’s such a charitable person.”
Pacquiao and Ali have been friends for years; he was at Ali’s birthday party on 2012.
“My dad stood for things,” she said, “Mayweather… I don’t think there’s a comparison.”
We Pinoys are proud of Manny because he is a Christian. We don’t think it was for show although he couldn’t teach her mother Dionisia who shows off her new boy hubby without church’s blessings.
A future senator, Manny has been giving much to charity—he is Ph’s highest Man, we think, if he is to give meaning to his life should not just indulge in stomach and sexual orgy which, taken to excess, will exact a toll on health.
We admire those whose mind and heat are directed to others, beginning with family, then community, country under the wings of God. Man ought not to digress from that rule if he doesn’t want to live a miserable life.
We have it in Matthew a life-giving verse, what good would a man gain if he owns the whole world but forfeits his soul?”
We can all see the proof of the universal axiom “what you sow you reap” in the many things inside prison walls for taking the short-cut to fame, better known as pleasure.
The gurus of life warn that there’s no such thing as short cut to fame. True greatness follows a holistic growth, but a step-by-step, rigorous discipline inspired by the Holy Spirit.
Greatness need not be in the grand arena of pantheons amid kleighlights. If you ask, it’s won in one’s quiet battles against odds, the little devils, Sisyphus that weigh on us as we chart our way through to receive God’s proper reward—better without the ego-boosting kleighlights.
It is in the sanctuary of the soul where angels praise that one should address—and gain an entry to God’s land.
Hallelujah.
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