A personification of Zeus?
Tiburon
7 June 2012
Re: Playing with fire – sino ka ba?
I almost missed your column last week, Mr. Gonzalo.
What got me interested in your response to The Benjie, is not how you approached his arrogance, but how you tried to explain the repercussions to Nanoy … your son.
Nanoy, your son believes in you. You give him life, the cloth on his back, roof over his head, food on the table, but most of all let him feel you’re the guiding light, to defend and protect him in time of need.
“Pa, bakit ka ginanon?”
It was this complete honor-wrecking disbelief, when your reaction to The Benjie’s … who the hell are you … insult, is too passive and timorous.
Your son expected a vigorous response not resulting to fisticuffs, but in words spoken to shove back in The Benjie’s face the humiliation he’d given you.
To him this instant, no way in Hell you can give The Benjie a . . . pass.
The loss of face . . .
It will never be the same again how Nanoy will look at you. He thought he saw in you the . . . gonzlinger . . . who won’t hesitate to draw his gun in defense of the right.
He knew how you threatened to sue people; to bring them to court at a moment’s notice, if you felt wronged. How you flexed your political muscle to clean-up the garbage, the sewer in your part of town. How you play with people on a string.
To your son, you are the personification of Zeus, a god he looks up to.
However, Nanoy found out the hard way, the god of Dagupan, is too much for the god at Olympus.
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