POLITICS is here, there, and everywhere in Pinas, and gotta start ‘em young through the Sangguniang Kabataan, the training ground for the future barangay kagawad, future barangay captain, future city councilor, future vice mayor, future mayor, future congressman, etc. It’s through the SK that the politically inclined young ones are first exposed to politics.
The SK winner who ends up as the country’s president can be the best politician of all. How about that for rising from the ranks? But anyone can be president. No need to rise from the ranks. For example, from martyr’s wife to president.
After surviving through the many trials and tribulations that made her husband a martyr, the Pinoy must have felt she could lead the country. Kind of the Pinoy’s gift for her, out of gratitude.
Now, their youngest daughter is having health issues that have attracted the TLC — tender loving care — of doctors in Pinas and other countries. But I gotta feeling the daughter still believes that what she’s currently going through is nothing compared to what her family endured for her father’s martyrdom.
Resilience is gained and learned. The problem of one person may be deemed trivial by someone who has quietly survived through the worst. But the latter will still not dare look down on the former’s woes. After all he was also in that level of problems before and coping with it was not easy, it gave him anxiety and panic attacks, there were days when all he wanted was to stay home and sleep, but he still had to leave the house to look for solutions instead of focusing on the problem.
He doesn’t have anxiety and panic attacks anymore. Or perhaps he still has but he has learned to skip over them. His reaction to current woes is always robot-like. He wakes up, takes a shower, brushes teeth, gets dressed, smiles as if everything is fine, and does whatever needs to be done to make his world a better place. No drama. No tears.
So unlike “Only We Know”? Which does have drama and tears. This is the movie that only I knew: I was the only one inside the cinema. Perfect for Julia Cameron’s advice on having a weekly “Artist’s Date” which should be done alone. Still, such a waste of talent — Charo Santos-Concio and Dingdong Dantes are two of the best actors in Pinas — if only a few would watch it.
I became more convinced that only I knew about the movie because upon searching for it, Keane’s “Somewhere Only We Know” kept on insisting it’s what I was referring to.
But I now know why — it could be the movie’s theme song:
“And if you have a minute, why don’t we go/Talk about it somewhere only we know?/This could be the end of everything/So, why don't we go somewhere only we know?/Somewhere only we know
“Oh, simple thing, where have you gone?/I’m getting old, and I need something to rely on/So, tell me when you’re gonna let me in/I’m getting tired, and I need somewhere to begin.”
The movie is about friendships, more particularly between a woman of a certain age and a much younger man. Cougar? Hmmm. That word will diminish what Betty (Santos-Concio) and Ryan (Dantes) has, so, perish the thought.
