Feelings
February’s Child
By Emmanuelle
Properly wedded or otherwise, if your father and your mother coupled within or thereabouts the month of June, the fruit of such union . . . in February comes. That is, if the fertilized seed were cared for, and not scared off, from the moment of implantation to the time of expulsion. That is, birth to you, fruit. So it is fruitless to pretend to look around for other bananas or any of those fruits-of-the-loom, er, womb. I am talking to thee, February’s child.
Congratulations, dear. You would then be joining the very privileged circle to the mauve-born. The society of the indigo, the purlish blue or the bluish purple, the violet, the lavender and the lilac. To this august body belongs 10 % of the forty-three plus men who have more than the American Presidency in common. They share the same birth month, February. Go silent with first r, pronounce out loud the second r. As in, they are Febuarians. Abraham Lincoln was born Feb. 12, George Washington was born Feb. 22, William Henry Harrison was born Feb. 9, and Ronald Reagan was born Feb. 6.
Include also the musician Bob Marley, writer John Grisham, journalist Ted Koppel, celebrities with brains John Travolta, Cindy Crawford, Ice T, Lisa Marie Presley, Brandy, Chelsea Clinton, John McEnroe, Michael Bolton, and more. And from the local front, Filipino nationalist Claro M. Recto, communist leader Jose Maria Sison, multi-awarded singer and stage actress Lea Salonga, dramatic actress Maricel Soriano, and others.
Februarians are among the most original, inventive and eccentric people who ever walked the top side of this planet. Curiously, their sights or insights are guided by the stars far beyond the dust of this earth. Their pursuits concern the future and celestial know-ledge of space, outer space, and extraterrestrials. Of science and research, electronics and advanced computers, aeronautics and avionics, and the study of mind and the psychology of behavior, in connection thereof, their interest in the police force and other investigative fields.
Februarians also inherit from the curious stars the unlikely combinations of intuition and common sense, of ingeniousness and stubborn will. It would be to their advantage, though, to listen and learn when the ideas are not of their own making. There is much knowledge still to be gleamed from minds other than their own.
Among the Filipinos, it is common to older members of the family admonishing ikaw na lang ang magpasensiya, alam mo naman, ipinanganak iyan sa buwan ng Pebrero, kaya kulang-kulang. Meaning to exercise patience when one is confronted with a February-born, who more often than not, lacks something in the persona.
Taking aside their eccentricity, Februarians are very idealistic, and it would do them good to direct their innovative mental powers to improving the world and to looking after its well-being. Feeling superior and acting eccentric, tactlessly and selfishly at that, will surely earn their downfall and of those immediately around them. It may be a fall from which there is scarce hope of rising again. Like the falling star.
After all, there is a limit to the use of the frequent excuse: kulang-kulang kasi February-born. It could be mistaken for kulang-kulang kasi kulang ng turnilyo. Which is entirely a different matter altogether, covering those born in any of the twelve months of the year.
And before I end, let me share you a February trivia, true or not, which I stumbled on during research for this Feelings. On the 30th of February in 1068, a miracle cure for all diseases on earth was found. The next year, February 1069, such said cure was lost under a sofa and germs began a revolution, leading to the death of the entire population of a small eighth-world village south of Asia which was populated by approximately one (1) person.
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