In Mar-Noynoy scenario, history repeating itself

By Al S. Mendoza

AGAIN, timeout.

Let’s focus on Mar Roxas. And Noynoy Aquino.

Let me count the ways.

Let’s liken it to basketball. Mar and Noynoy are teammates.

Umm.  In the game at hand, isn’t Mar doing the most damage?

He is the pacesetter, leading his team to point-production.

At the half, Mar is top scorer.

From the opposing side, the coach is in a quandary.  How to solve the Mar riddle?

Double-team him, triple-team him?

A swarm defense on him?

Full-court press?

In a stunning move, Mar himself provides the solution.

He quits.

“Self-sacrifice,” he says.

But more than that, he says:  “Unity over division.”

Mar’s team isn’t united?

By being the leading scorer, Mar is dividing the team?

Well, Mar hears the crowd chanting, “Noynoy!  Noynoy!  Noynoy!”

Mar’s heart melts.  He gives way.

“Team above self,” Mar says. “Noynoy had better lead our team to victory.”

Humbled, Noynoy capitulates. Wavers  even.

After thanking Mar for his graciousness, Noynoy rethinks his position.

The coach is thrown in a dilemma.

Suddenly, the team is orphaned by its leading scorer in the first half.

What to do now?

Noynoy himself calls a timeout.

“I need to be alone, coach,” Noynoy says.  “This is simply a hard task that Mar has asked me to do. I need divine guidance.”

In fairness, Noynoy is an extremely decent person.

All this time, never has his name been tarnished.

Mar, too.  He’s been the team leader for so long now. As an ardent follower, Noynoy has been a good soldier all these years.

Mar and Noynoy have been teammates since they were kids. Their friendship dates from way back; it began with their fathers being stalwarts in the Liberal Party.

In their heyday, Gerry Roxas (Mar’s late father) was Liberal Party president. Ninoy Aquino (Noynoy’s martyred father) was Liberal Party secretary general.

They were as inseparable as horse and carriage.

Even when Marcos separated them – he put Ninoy in jail for 7 years – Gerry and Ninoy stuck to each other, glued together by their love for freedom and country.

Gerry and Ninoy had been the idols of their sons, Mar and Noynoy.

Indeed, fate has a way with us, mere mortals.

Destiny loves to play cruel jokes on us, mere mortals.

A while back, Doy Laurel wanted to be president.

He was close to achieving that dream but, as in Ninoy’s fate, Doy would also become the president this country never had.

So, through People Power in Edsa ’86, Cory, the mere housewife and Ninoy’s widow, became president and Doy vice president.

Will Noynoy, a mere overseer of his late Mom Cory and four sisters and the “yayo” of his autistic nephew (Joshua), be also thrust to the Palace by the Pasig?

And Mar will reprise Doy’s destiny of becoming the president this country never had?

Indications seem to point to that.

Against fate, against destiny, us, mere mortals, are no match.

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