By Atty. Antonio P. Pekas
It is better to be good in one area compared to being bad handling two. It is momentous now that I have to choose again, as I tried but failed before. A heart and kidney failure inexorably brought me back to the same issue. Should I continue being a lawyer and a media person at the same time? Not choosing can be fatal. Being quite far from total recovery, the choice is the latter. I just have to wind up one or two legal cases and that would be it.
A few words to say goodbye. Starting as a lawyer in 1986 it did not take long for me to make my mark. Barely after a year in practice, I ended up handling a case that went all the way to the highest court of the land. The Supreme Court’s decision came out in 1989. So it has become a part of legal references.
And how good God can be. My last bunch of cases in the appellate courts came down some months back. It felt good to exit by being vindicated and winning in the Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court. Particularly in those I badly wanted to win, in the interest of justice.
Where do I go from here? To do what I always wanted to do. To give the ZigZag Weekly the time it badly needs at a time when old methods and ways of thinking are in their death throes. New realities have to be embraced for us to be able to ride the galloping changes now being thrust upon us by technology.
Scary, as any major change or expansion in this business entails humongous capital and effort. It would be like starting all over again. Certainly, it is not from scratch but not far from there.
That means one has to be at the top of his game. Fitness wise, am very far from there, way below. But no choice. As I roll out the mat every early morning to meditate and to do yoga exercises, bits and pieces appear in my brain which could turn out to be the future. Easy to dream but how daunting things can be is easily felt as I factor in how things are on the ground.
While I have to heavily rely on myself, it is a big blessing so many friends (that includes you) are very much around. Without all of you out there, I would prefer to just fully retire and slowly expire.
But you are there so I and ZigZag Weekly will be there. As we prepare everyday, no matter how compromised our situation is, to take on daily challenges.
Where we will end up is not our business. That is God’s business.
We, as everybody should, will welcome our destiny. Certainly, all our future will be good. By God’s grace and because WE WILL MAKE IT HAPPEN. There is no safe way to jump off the runaway train (at high speed). And there is no Plan B.
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