Saturday, September 16, 2006
Maxey: Random thoughts
By Ram Maxey
Bar None
WHEN you're sick in bed for several days and time seems to move as slow as molasses in winter, a chain of myriad thoughts may enter your mind that are not connected to each other; random thoughts from out of nowhere that fleet in and out of your consciousness as you stare blankly at the ceiling and reflect.
For instance, you wonder why old age seems to come at a bad time. Does it ever come at a good time? Not when intimations of mortality start insinuating themselves into your mind.
Isn't it a truism? Hard work has a future pay-off, but laziness pays off right away.
As for the issue of the proposed ban on aerial spraying, you wonder why a banana-producing firm invited media people to observe how it is done. They ought to have invited the members of the City Council instead. Journalists don't legislate laws, although they love to eat bananas just like anybody else.
God must have a reason for prolonging some people's lives. The more they complain about life in general, the more He makes them live. If we stop complaining, do we stop living? Either way, we lose.
It is said that in this country anyone can be president. It's just one of the risks we take to live here. Remember a guy named Erap? For that matter, anyone can be senator. Look at the Revilla father and son. Remmember the Big "J"? And how about this guy called Jinggoy? Yet, not just anyone can be a movie actor or basketball star. Or be an ex-president's son.
And when you scan the newspapers or watch the boob tube, your intelligence is insulted by what you see there -- politicians who play havoc with our lives by their inane antics. You know what? Some people are alive only because it is illegal to shoot them.
There's a lesson to be learned there: Stop repeat offenders. Don't reelect them. We deserve the kind of government we get. But it seems we never learn.
And finally:
God must love crooks in government. He made so many of them.
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