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  • Saturday, February 11, 2006

    Tragedy - Really?

    ULTRA - the most talked about place last week and it continues nowadays.
    Reason - a stampede brought about by an overflowing crowd pushing against a temporary wall.
    Responsible - many. Others are investigating, others are insinuated, still others are guilty.

    Why were so many people went to ULTRA?

    To win prizes? To see Willy? There are so many reasons. Those who went there to win prizes were not really the poor of the poorest. They were the ones who have no work. I personally know somebody who is affluent but he has no work and still want to win a prize. Thank God, he's okay. Is it greed? Somebody said so... Each of us have a different opinion and view on what happened.

    But the reality is, 71 dead (as corrected, previously it was 74) and 627 injured. Nothing else. Because we cannot do anything else. The damage had been so big and is already in the history of the Philippines.

    This is life as it is. Tests and experiences abound. This is what we are destined for. To experience something that may point us to where we are going. What are the lessons that we learned? The lessons I learned just by hearing and seeing anything about the incident is that, Filipinos love to compete first. They love to offer and show strength. After a while, they show their soft side.

    We can be as strong as steel yet can be as soft as cotton. But we prefer to do the former because of pride. And we only do the letter because we want to be acknowledged. In anything we do, we love our own self no matter what.

    Ponder on this and examine yourself. Do we really need to be strong in order to show our weak side? Or are we exposing our soft side by appearing to be strong?

    Yet, we say Filipinos are unique... Yes, this is our uniqueness.

    And again, as days go by, we can possibly witness this tragedy fading into oblivion and probes and investigations hanging in the air. Proof of the Filipino impulse. It will be sorry for those who were used to expose the Pinoy blood. We can't really blame anybody, but ourselves. We can't blame the victims, they were just made instruments. We cannot blame politicians, they are just human. In every corner, we see reasons and justifications based on perceptions we possess given to us by life's experiences.

    This is REALITY... A world of disorder where anything happens on the opposite end. A world where anything can be expected to happen, even the most gruesome ones. Little by little, I hope we see the pattern in this random world. The pattern which is so random we cannot determine if it follows laws or just the opposite.

    Confusing, yes. I'm confused... Goodbye anyway.