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IT’S March! And it’s beginning to look a lot like… No, not Christmas.

The weather is hot, hot, hot. Sweat pouring down the spine; humidity that may need the coolness of the Carrier Klarwind which reminds one of EVE, the female lead in “Wall-E”; runny nose caused by the sudden change from hot to cold and vice versa while hopping from one venue to another.

Makes the Pinoy wonder if hopping from one political party to another also causes the hopper’s nose to run.

Now that the PDP-Laban has a collection of political hoppers, it’s pushing to end turncoatism by including its ban in the proposed new constitution.

There are times when you may also face similar circumstances, made to believe that a certain group is better than the other, and there you are, picking the one that can advance your vested interests. Between the unknown and popular, the weak and powerful, the poor and the rich, no need to make a wild guess on who will gain more votes.

If your priority is your life, then, you will always choose you. On where you’ll have peace of mind with less pressure, less stress, less drama.

But politics can’t survive without drama. It needs drama. As the barangay and Sangguniang Kabataan elections and Election 2019 peek around the corner, vested interests will be the deciding factor for the political candidate and his minions. That’s Survival 101 in this oh so cruel world. The truth doesn’t matter anymore. What matters is the public image that can win votes, even if it requires fake accomplishments that produce an empty shell of a candidate propped up only by his own press releases.

“Don’t believe your own press,” as the saying goes. Otherwise, well, you’ll only make a fool out of yourself.

One look at a public-image ploy may prompt a political candidate to say, “Buotan kaayo ko oi!” or, “Oi, buotan diay ko?” He knows the truth, and he knows who can help him hide the truth once it becomes ugly.

He may have to surgically remove the ugly truth from his minute brain, for he will remember it forever and ever, that is, if he still has a conscience. Usually, that conscience stops to function after a bombardment of pretend scenarios, and he will learn to choose any ladder that will allow his vested interests to prosper.

“A fly that lands on a carabao feels itself to be higher than the carabao,” another saying goes. There are political minions who also behave like that fly as they hop from one carabao to the next for loftier goals. The wise political candidate knows who among his minions are that fly, while the unwise will only know once he sees his minions on another carabao.

There could be whispers on potential hoppers who are not hopping for loftier goals but for less drama, you know, the ones who have finally learned to choose their own self. The wise political candidate may talk them out of hopping if he believes in their time, talent, and treasure. But if he’s convinced that he can get that time, talent, and treasure from some other minion, he can easily let go of the hoppers, and only regret his decision later once it’s proven these new minions are no match to the ones whose departure he somehow facilitated.

The minion who has had it will never go back to his first carabao, or to any other carabao, after realizing all carabaos are more or less the same. So, he switches to cows? Prime beef. Uh.

The more beef in the diet, the hotter this summer will be. A summer diet should have veggies, fruits, fish, chicken, and lots of water—lighter stuff. You can drink that water, swim in it, dive into it. It’s time to visit Boracay, Panglao, and El Nido, unless these three will be temporarily closed for a much-needed rehabilitation.

Yup, Tokhang surrenderers are not the only ones lining up for rehab.

A beach vacation consists of eating, swimming, and sleeping, with the eating there focused on inihaw nga isda, tinolang isda, and kinilaw. Imagine all that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. And once you’ve had enough of those three, you can switch to escabeche or sweet and sour fish, isda inun-unan, and sinigang na isda. Yum!

Whether you’re a political candidate, a minion, or a voter, a vacation can prepare you for this summer’s barangay and SK elections, to clear the mind and help it tell the difference between public image and the truth.

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