Think about it
Why Christmas?
By Jun Velasco
CHRISTMAS Day is a few breaths away, but here we are catching our breath with many explosive news items descending on our very existence.
The threat of martial law is still very real. You can be sure it would not be the same as that Bung Ferdinand slapped on the land. The lady president has a searing temper.
Entwined with martial law is the May elections. If you have been following the news with an eye of a tiger, it won’t be hard for you to mix them together like a sweetened halo-halo. The lady is not predisposed to step down yet. Know what that means? That simple intention of the lady has colored the coming elections differently.
And then your anxiety is worsened by Jimmy Licauco’s treatise that the coming alignment of the planets in two years “does not rule out a bizarre cataclysm” that could descend on humankind and, for that matter (have you seen the movie 2012?) all forms of life on this planet.
The reason we got Jimmy to our Rotary club a month back was for him, being a paranormal guru second to none in our book, to tackle the cataclysm yarn. Oh, my, the guy, instead of lifting our fears all the more confirmed it by asking us to zero in on it much more … but this time, we hastened, with prayers that it wouldn’t come at all.
The best argument against universal catastrophe, we said, is the brrr season, the fresh smell of brewed coffee wafting through your window and filtering through your eardrums with Johnny Mathis’ “Silver Bells.” Christmas is the mass for Christ who came to this world to save humankind.
Let’s pray that all would be well. All it should us take us to do probably is to peel that fake skin that says, “I love you” when you actually mean, “I love myself.”
Make it true this time before it’s too late.
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How’s our political circus going on? That’s it. It’s a circus, that’s why we’d rather leave it to the news analysts with the proverbial endurance, the unsinkable elan vital.
You know in our more than half a century of existence, we’ve seen so much of it already we’d rather, like what Gonzalo puns, “mas maganda itong papitikpitik lang ng mga behinds ng mga pulitiko sa kolum natin rather than play the unwinnable game. Masaya pa.”
Why unwinnable, we asked. Because, he says, we are in the art of saving souls. In politics, you will lose your soul if you are not careful, the unquenchable chap said. Gons said a mouthful there.
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A rare Christmas gift. We received a one- of- a- kind gift, a coffee table book advertised earlier by our former boss, Neal Cruz, “The First l00 Years of Philippine Komiks and Cartoons.” We encourage you to buy a copy at National Book Store. It will, as Larry Henares says, make your day.
Our favorite quote this week, “Team work is the catalyst that yields excellence from shared strengths.” Make it your club motto.
Here’s a text message from Rod Ydeo, “Feel the earth underneath your feet, and you will never go wrong.” Merry Christmas!
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