Friday, July 15, 2011
Daredevil writer
I have always been afraid to speak my mind; more so, write it. Since childhood, I have been keen at avoiding criticisms. Yes, I admit, I was a pleaser. The kind of personality I have developed, perhaps but not entirely because of my upbringing, has always made me feel a great distaste for going against common or in any case, anybody's opinion. On the one hand, it allowed me to be open to a lot of views. I have come to respect the fact that there are a lot of ways of thinking, or in the academic parlance-paradigms. I have come to accept and honor diversities. I believe that through this and in a way, it helped me become a better person---one who is more accommodating of others. Yet the downside is gloomy: such fearfulness has prevented me from taking leaps as I am contented and paranoid with every conscious and tiny step. I have not allowed the person within me a chance at the microphone, not that I have issues about being listened to or expressing myself. I am only worried that such silencing would impede my and every man's very nature: that is, to reason out and take a stand. Having to consider all differing and at times conflicting perspectives makes me feel motionless, floating helplessly amidst a sea of confusion without any current. Nevertheless, what is clear is that I have to believe that somewhere, there is an island and I have to make that conscious and bold effort to swim and not just allow the buoyant forces to keep me alive yet stagnant. The first conscious stroke has been transcribed into words and these firsts are usually what awakens that daredevil of a person in us.
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
"Boxing is not for killing each other." How beautifully this was uttered by Manny Pacquiao! This is so because the beauty is not in the use of utterances which are unheard of. Rather, it is in the ability to animate even the dullest and most routinary words with the realities of humane-ity often ignored or taken for granted.
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