AND what could be the common roots of all simple cases involving principals and teachers which if examined are actually gossips or if not are bad manners and wrong conduct. Manners define men and women, but power and the exercise of it describe their outcome.
And what would that gossip’ be about, other than accusing someone of either partaking that powerful fruit grown in the garden of paradise or sucking that sweet succulent honey from bees in a forbidden relationship.
Indeed, love what a powerful beast you were, if you enter the arteries, in the heart of human, all are disturbed except no one, for you chant a natural sound which deafened reasons beyond.
From contemplating, Manong Bert then laughs, at how he sealed the good relationship between three disputing ladies involving simple gossips by using his talent as arbiter of administrative conflicts. He recalls the looks of Nicole, Eve and Bruno. The first is single, the second was married and the third was a man who declared himself, a lady.
Nicole was rumored to be in a relationship with Eve’s husband, while Bruno is Nicole’s best friend, but daydreaming also of the same man.
Whoever started that buzz must have been good at it, because it has changed the attitude and behavior of the two real women in school. If the world is narrow, what more in a school.
From an observer’s view every time the two ladies meet in alleys and corridors their faces are in opposite angles – one looks at the left while the other to the right. The simple rebuff was turned into an oral and almost physical conflict between the two, which at one time some faculty members including Bruno intervened to hide the conflicts in the eyes of the students.
Else, it is a despicable act to see adult mentors fighting out over some petty and silly causes. Again, what aggravate matters are administrators who lack knowledge or fail to exercise the very basics of due processes – hear first before you decide or take sides.
Now, the conflict was at Manong Bert’s table and to settle it, had a separate chit chats with the three mentors. Starting with Nicole, Manong Bert said: Nicole, if you love for good reasons, a thousand flowers will bloom, but if you love for the wrong reason, you will end up in eternal misfortune. With the usual five “W” and one “H” strategy, Manong Bert asked Nicole, how did these ones came about? And so tears on Nicole’s eyes dropped as she began to narrate how the conflict started.
Nicole has the looks and brain but in all the years that she has been teaching, No one had ever seen her being fetched by a fine gentleman in school. Manong Bert taught of any reason why this lady despite of the good looks and strong appeal was rumored to be in a relationship with a married man. To be continued...