Washing of dirty linen in public has become, for some, that is, a practice, clearly out of spite.
When someone publicly airs his or her gripe at someone, it is probably done to unload a burden long kept at bay.
To some, it is to spite someone, to make him pay for his or her shenanigans in the past.
Washing of dirty linen does not make anyone a winner. Everyone who engages in it are always a loser, sore loser at that.
What good will it give if you publicly humiliate someone who is a close kin? While it may make you feel good, that feeling, in the long run, will be ephemeral.
What’s exceedingly painful in this process is that no amount of public apology can make you undo the pain you’ve caused the other party.
What’s done is done.
In the psychology of anger, the one who whips always end up being hit the hardest. Realization will come in the most painful way, mostly when the accuser does not come cleaner.
So, when one utters the harshest of word against someone, think of it as a ploy to put his or her nemesis in the negative light.
In case of a controversial feuding mom and son, there is no one to blame but the unfortunate incident of miscommunication. If one is to bridge the gap between the warring party, he or she should do so with the sincerest of his or her heart.
Pinoys love ogling at popular figures trading barbs publicly. Witnessing on a ringside view about what’s happening is giving spectators excitement.
So, be careful whose linen you wash in public. For all you know, you are giving your basher a vantage point of what you are and what you have become because anger reared its ugly head.
You are how you speak and what you speak about.
You are best defined by what you say and how you say it.
No in between!!!
You were not judged. You’ve just been classified.
Cinemalaya, a misnomer?
A film about missing sabungeros, Lost Sabungeros, did not get a screening at the ongoing Cinemalaya film festival.
The film’s screening was canceled “for security reasons” as per the festival’s statement.
In its stead, Balota was screened last August 8.
It can be gleaned, therefore, that there is one guy or one group influential enough to have caused the cancelation.
But what’s more palpable is the festival’s seeming lack of courage to parry off the pressure as it acquiesced to the maneuvering of one guy or one group. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth to say the least.
This is setting a bad precedent as it can be replicated in the future.
What’s left unanswered is who is pressuring the cancelation. How was the pressure done?
There is obvious intimidation going on here and the festival must expose where it is coming from. The public must know every minute detail of the personality involved in this despicable act.
A festival such as Cinemalaya should be functioning autonomously and be spared from pressure from the outside world.
Otherwise, it becomes obvious that cinema is no longer free or malaya.
