THE NEXT ACT

I have permanently bailed out a number of times in many years from being totally disgraced in some groups that I have been with. Over the years, sometimes I forget the reasons why I left. Thinking maybe the coast is clear I tried to be reunited with my past and there you go....Bham! Here goes the rudeness, the crabbing and judgmental. Sometimes going back helped me remember why I left. It is ironic when I think of the reason why. Where I am now is a blessing. A big leap to a different environment has given me a change to start all over again with a clean slate. And with God's grace, I have risen anew. The gift that God has given me are put to practice again. But this time I am more equipped to take care of them. Never again I would let others take the gift from me. He who began a good work in me will be faithful to complete it. Anyone who tends to block the progress of my achievement in putting what God has entrusted me in good use is simply blocking the consequence of God’s

You are much powerful than what I was thinking.   I thought that I would not get it done because I am not that confident.   Yet somehow you have outdone my fear and just conquer it for me.   You overshadowed my fear.   You have shown me that once a provision has set and it has to be done according to Your will, all I need to do is take action no matter what I feel about it.   There seemed at first to have some situation that would say it couldn’t be done, but you have made your way for me to make it and all I need to do is to carry on.  My Faith draws the courage in me.

What is this? A celebrity couple versus a veteran reporter in a brawl. It all started when the reporter taking pictures or video of the female celeb in her worst mood in public which upset the husband. Regardless of who punched or kicked first, the mere fact that one is  being recorded without consent especially when the intention is to showcase the not~so-good side of ones image is something to be upset about. I would be upset if people would record my bad side in the wrong intention. That is really low.  Now it becomes  business to watch out and highlight famous people's not so good side. Paparazzi is such a common term.  Money talks your way out of good conduct. It is still rude. It is low. Yet technology carried in your pocket is a handy dandy tool for you to easily do it whether it is right or wrong. Not all of us are reporters. Yet most of us possess the means. Be responsible. Put the means in good use.

I was reading an article by Maria Rezza, Head of ABS-CBN News and Current Affairs. I was struck by what she says about people who are giving justifications on swaying against principles.  And I quote: "Evil people don’t think they’re evil, and corrupt people don’t think they’re corrupt. Corruption is endemic in our country because people rationalize it. They split hairs about definitions." To put in a much simpler or in kindergarten-ish form, there are people who do bad and they think it's okay because blah blah.  Whatever that blah-blah is, that suddenly becomes a license to harm.  Well I put it that anything bad is harmful. Anyhow, being a smart ass is still an ass.  We know better.  We know what's black and what's white. We know what's wrong and what's right.  But one thing I don't know is how wrong can be right when you put a reason on the action. "I cheat as long as I am not caught." "I make fun of him because he is a dork