There is sadness in inevitable consistency and inescapability. It happens everyday, and there is no force able to overcome it. We understand it would happen eventually, yet we still feel loneliness.
We actually discussed this at our Social psychology class. Salient point was people tend to commit fundamental attribution error which is inferring a trait to the displayed behavior. That’s bad because traits are relatively stable but are extremely hard to isolate and infer from a single behavior.
Ibig sabihin: hindi lang dahil nalusong siyang baha eh tanga na siya, hindi porket agit na agit siya ay mayabang na siya. Hindi mo masasabi na ganun ang isang tao by just seeing a video of him na malamang sa malamang inedit ng media para magmukhang epal siya.
Given what had happened to him, his frustration combined, I wasn’t at all surprised by his reaction. Ikaw ba naman, mangyari yun sa iyo. Tapos kung makatanong pa yung reporter parang andaming alam.
Oo nakakatawa, in the same way na kapag nadudulas ang isang tao o napiyok bigla ay nakakatawa. It was a bad day. May mga moments talaga na ganun eh. Hindi justification ang pagiging tunog arogante niya sa video para lapastanganin niyo yung tao at sabihan ng kung ano-ano. OA na eh. Hindi na cool. If you think it’s cool to call a person who probably just had the WORST days ever names, then YOU SIR ARE DEFICIENT IN ALL ASPECTS. konteksto naman mga pre, konteksto naman.
Oh isa pa! Epal ang media. Nagkanda-leche-leche na yung kotse nung tao eh ishe-share pa sa buong bansa. Kung hindi ba naman bastos lang.
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freemah-ness on the Cristopher Lao issue Ate Prima, I just HAD to share :) |
A good read: Christopher Lao - selfless, low-key, brilliant.
Chris is my blockmate. When I saw this video, like most of us, I laughed. But, having all the free time in the world to make fan pages and post hate messages and tweets is another.
Chris does not deserve this. At all. When my brother asked me if he was an arrogant guy (as he was portrayed in the news bit), I told him not at all - and that is the most ironic thing about this. It was edited in such a way that it made Chris look like a douche. The news bit did not serve any purpose but to humiliate Chris. And this, I say, is irresponsible journalism.
In our block, he is our savior from terror professors. Everybody knows he studies all the material for our class. He is not the type of guy who raises his hand in class and interjects non-sense questions (law students, you know the type I’m talking about). Chris does not even raise his hand in class. He only recites if the professor calls his name. He is the type of guy who the professor calls if nobody can answer the question. He is the type of guy who can stand in recitation for four-hour lectures.
The news bit did not even mention why he has to go brave the floods. Chris is currently studying for the bar exams. To all law students and lawyers, you know the intense pressure that goes in this process. Moreover, Chris is a father. He was on his way to his daughter since his wife was stranded in the office.
Chris hails from Mindanao hence his unfamiliarity with the streets of Metro Manila. And he just learned how to drive when he was in law school.
Having said that, Chris even issued an apology for his tirade caught on video and for blaming everybody but himself in the mishap (welcome to the law profession, Chris, where our motto is cover your own ass).
I know ignoring the issue would do more good for Chris. I guess, this would be the last time I will mention this issue.
To Chris, after the bar exams - and we are all sure you’re going to ace that - tell us if you need help. Let’s draft laws to prevent this from ever happening again. Or let’s sue who we can sue (let’s check the prescription for libel on this one)
Don’t go judging someone just because of one mistake. Listen to their stories.
Wonder. It bubbles from within us and rises and fills us. Until we can no longer hold it. And we have to shout it, to fill the world, that it may share in it.
I wondered what happened when you offered yourself to someone, and they opened you, only to discover you were not the gift they expected and they had to smile and nod and say thank you all the same.
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| — | Jodi Picoult (My Sister’s Keeper) |
You should date a girl who reads.
mols:
(In Response to Charles Warnke’s You Should Date An Illiterate Girl.)
Better yet, huh? I can ascertain that there’s a condition to that.
Eventually the fast text message responses will become slow. The long conversation will cut short. The attention they give you will become neglected. The comfort they give you will become something awkward. The time they have for you will become non existent. The feeling of being close to them will become distant.
Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow?
I am certain that, despite that threat- of man repeating past mistakes, we as a people would remain hungry for true independence. For as long as we are not truly free, we will forever clamor for blue skies which we can call ours, for lands we can till, for seas we can sail.
Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer.
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| — | Dalai Lama (via reluctantbuddha) |
