As the continuing political drama that is meticulously covered and played over by the commercial news and social media rages on, it’s slowly beginning to look like hot pandesal sold by the local subdivision pot-pot guy in his motored cart every morning. How long before a different type of bread, others wondered? A fellow retiree has an even somber view: how long before they come up with a novel script for a change? “This Moro-moro plot has been repeatedly-used for so long, our grandparents were still in their early teens”. As for the cast of characters, that too has become as predictable and stale as the plot, he added.
Because of this, one could not help but wonder, what really goes on in the minds of other ordinary people? One taxi driver intimated he has been religiously listening to the congressional proceedings on his cab’s radio and it irritates him no end. When I asked what course of action should he take, that was his meek reply : wait and see.
True enough, even as several segments in society may have already began rattling their war shields and yelling spirited battle cries, the rest of the majority has remained largely aloof, as though adopting that safe wait-and-see attitude.
Meanwhile, social scientists, along with many self-proclaimed experts and analysts-cum-vloggers have their day in the sun, dissecting at whatever issues crop up and diligently spewing out their personal takes on the everyday developments. Like some poker-faced prophet, they present their own blow-by-blow accounts of what may have transpired, complete with a battery of motherhood predictions which, safe to say, can all be readily interpreted both ways, in case they fail in their predictions. Perhaps, too, this may have also been part of the overall agenda. Who knows?
As for myself, I’ve learned to just be quiet at whatever’s stirring slowly in my pot. The missus for one, has vehemently refused to listen whenever I start to rant over what I have just read on the political K-drama going on. She says I shouldn’t add to whatever’s stressing her atm. I’m glad for that too, while I’m kept in check, I’m helping out too.
Thing is, just recently, I’ve discovered a timely method of cooling down whenever I begin to rage or feel discomfort over of the political drama going on. I put up Christmas decorations. Now short of putting up a Christmas tree, I am 90 percent over in doing the outside lights and finished with hanging up the parols or the stars. Therapeutic it is, says Yoda.
