Beyond the titillating comments
Beyond the titillating comments on Sen. Leila Delima’s lovelife, the noise of the anti-Marcos groups, the scary effects of having more checkpoints and other strong arm measures, we the ordinary Cordillerans have to go home every end of the day to be confronted with the usual bills, tuition fees of kids to settle before the end of year exams, monthly rental payments, machinery maintenance costs, grocery requirements, transportations costs, etcetera, etcetera.
So we should not be sidetracked by all the noise. If we have to take sides, let us do so without forgetting our obligations to family as parents, or children, or as “whatever.” For after the dust or smoke clears, we have to feed ourselves and our families, and for many of us, this has to be done by keeping intact our careers or vocations.
Some people take a side of some burning issues and then cast aside caution to the wind and give up everything for the cause only to rue it much later. Their having wasted their sources of income such as careers and opportunities that should have been taken and maintained resulted in their being miserable. For the worldly life would be still there to undertake and to face, and that could only be done if you have a source of income to sustain you and your family, and in many instances this requires some competitiveness in one’s field.
And one has to have a family for it is our nature to have such, if not the natural goal of a social being, unless you want to become a monk and aspire for enlightenment in this lifetime— but only very, very few become successful in this.
So let us so advise our children, friends, and others who can comfortably listen to us.**
