Think About It
FPJ in all of us!
By Jun Velasco
“Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God,” — Wallace D. Whattles
WHATEVER the psychiatrists say, we humbly submit that the gun has become a symbol of our defense against evil.
We were smiling when a grade school teacher was giving a lecture against pupils playing with toy guns. There really were times we slammed the gun-symbol because of its proximity to the un-Godly act of kill.
The Bible is full of accounts of violence with the use of deadly weapons including the saber, sword, gun, and others.
From the collage of it all, we applaud at the gun users who fell the villains, the gangsters, bandits, and other blood-thirsty elements in our society.
When we were kids, we loved to watch Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger and other cowboy movies and their heroes the likes of Glenn Ford and Gary Cooper (Vera Cruz), James Bond’s Sean Connery who always triumphed over the locos, the contra-bidas, the villains.
Close to home is – or was – the pog-yish Fernando Poe, Jr., whose birthday we celebrated Friday.
Who of us especially the males did not fantasize being a Fernando Poe, Jr. in our most private moments?
During our pre-teen years, brod Dante and this columnist would join the queue of movie goers at the first hour of the first day of an FPJ movie in Dagupan’s downtown theaters, with erpat Pio in tow!
When we reached home, we’d relate to our playmates—complete with showmanship the action and bidaism of our movie heroes!
Those enjoyable childhood experiences must have cut through the deep recesses of our subconscious, goading us to play FPJ in our everyday affairs albeit in civil, socially palatable dimensions.
We, most of us, anyway love to play roles that allow us to seek the alliance of the good, the brave, the heroic, the bida in our everyday war against the destroyers of peace, the bullies, the drug merchants, rapists, the corrupt, and all who belong to the other side, the dark, the bad side.
For all we know, in our workplace, we are unconsciously playing FPJ positioning ourselves as the upright, fighting the oppressors and the cheats, the dishonest, the “mapanira” the drug posers who inflict harm on families, the sipsip, yes, those who don’t play fair and square.
What, you may ask, is our basis for identifying the good against the bad? This query should be asked in light of certain movies that glorify evil such as the lords of the mafia as shown in the movie, the “Godfather?” for undoubtedly we love the suave acting of Al Pacino as Mike Corleone, don’t we? This is the rub!
Our solemn take is, the good and evil have been clearly defined by the Ten Commandments.
Whoever digresses from the Law should be punished.
In our daily lives these days featuring a kaleidoscope of good and bad personalities—deposed Chief Justice Renato Corona, Janet Napoles, P-noy, heir to great parents, Mar Roxas, Jojo Binay, Rody Duterte, Grace Poe, and Bongbong Marcos, it should be our solemn duty as fortunate members of society that upholds the Rule of Law to see through the maze, the moral mist, if you please, and the confusion and courageously act the role of Fernando Poe Jr. against all odds.
It is in this sense that we greet the father of Senator Grace Poe even in spirit, Happy birthday, idol FPJ!
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