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Sunday, June 27, 2004
Obenieta: Unmasking ourselves
By Myke U. Obenieta
Sun.star essay
For them who make and sell aspirin, it’s time to let their hair down to the tune of those banging their heads in this migraine-merry season.
If the authorities would lock Elly Pamatong behind monastery doors, could we now let the good times roll? Yes, indeed, if we pull ours legs first. An axe-kick smack on our scalps, that seems to be in the minds of those out to shake and rattle our focus for a sense of Zen in the wake of May 10. Can’t we hear the grumbler’s bugle, the boom of bellyache?
“We expect peace after the storm? Not immediately. Only Jesus can do that,” avers the Archdiocesan media liaison officer Msgr. Achilles Dakay, in reaction to the administration’s upbeat talks of reconciliation. That may not work yet at this point in time, he surmises.
A rain of aspirin. What a godsend in this time so tempting for tearing off the toupee of Eddie Gil, now singing as if only he is spared from the concerns that scrawl furrows on our foreheads: political instability, economic anxiety.
It’s redundant, a nest of lice on the President’s hair. Especially when there’s a whole league of belligerents out to trick or trigger her to scratch and blow her top. Even as her face glows while lighting the peace pipe, FPJ’s friends could only frown and see a smokescreen. It’s all a matter of earning “pogi points,” they glower as they gear up for a “symbolic and parallel” proclamation of their idol at the Gaisano Metro-Colon area on the very same day that she will have her oath-taking at the Capitol.
Short of smashing their skulls on the wall where the people’s handwriting thumbs down on them, the opposition is cold-blooded--hot on the heels of Pamatong’s steel spikes--about airing their grievances in street protests. So goes Dakay’s advice to Arroyo: So that there’ll be no rain on her parade, she should also talk to anti-administration camp to ensure all “frictions and frustrations” are weathered through
Then again, it’s easier to aspire for aspirin when sobriety seems a bitter pill to swallow. To all aggrieved parties in the last national elections still sleepless over the results, Supreme Court Chief Justice Hilario Davide has urged “to exhaust all legitimate remedies under the law.” Instead of resorting to extralegal means, yes, they can style their hair into spikes like punks in protest of conformity. Or have their heads shaved in the manner of thugs at the street corner. Beware the barber, if his heart beats for Gloria, who might nip their locks before cutting their necks.
But, come to think of it, blessed are the troublemakers. Not only do they compel us to crave for peace, or acknowledge that this is as urgent or basic as bread; they also lull and nudge us into a snoozy, if snooty, notion that ours is the side of angels.
That, in a time when wishing for peace of mind and serenity of spirit is as constant as the sound of heartbreak, might be comfortable enough a cushion against the hard bumps and the headache.
(June 27, 2004 issue)
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