Sadly whimsical

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KATE Spade, Anthony Bourdain… What the…?

Upon learning about Spade’s suicide Tuesday last week, the first thing that a fashionista might have done was to hug her Kate Spade Sam bag.

Some of Spade’s designs can be described as whimsical—playful and colorful, bright and sunshiny, fun and happy. But her life was the exact opposite as she struggled with depression.

Three days later on Friday, Bourdain was also found dead due to suicide.

Dealing with life’s trials and tribulations requires a battalion of healthy coping mechanisms. There are incidents that may sadden you and it takes a lot of chutzpah to survive through it all. Try looking back to your own history and take note of the most difficult times when you wanted to quit and say, Bahala na si Batman. I used to say that often while trying so hard to lose weight two years ago. We called our wellness coach as Batman and each time we, his minions, hyperventilated with our empty tummies, we raided the fridge and yelled, Bahala na si Batman! Of course, we gained weight and are now back to a weight loss program we hopefully could live with forevermore.

Charlize Theron revealed in an interview that gaining 50 pounds for her role in “Tully” depressed her: “It’s fun for about three weeks, then it’s not so fun anymore… Eating like that, I dealt with depression for the first time in my life. I’d never experienced anything like that.” She said she “was drinking a lot of sugar and eating a lot of processed foods. And my body just kind of gave up on me halfway through.”

Checking out Facebook often and playing video games for many hours can also lead to the blues probably because the interaction is done only through a gadget.

So, is it food? Facebook? Video games?

Perhaps it’s time to be like Kris Aquino who’s always spontaneous in her comments and never backs out from any war. Two months ago in April, it was Kris vs. her ex-hubby James Yap and Kris vs. Korina Sanchez. This month, it’s Kris vs. Communications Assistant Secretary Mocha Uson.

She can make a lot of noise when she wants to, thus, the Kris-Mocha episode may continue to brew for as long as the Pinoy can bear listening to the rants from both sides.

She has a princess role in the movie version of the book, “Crazy Rich Asians,” which I hope won’t be used by some people to describe her: crazy, rich, Asian. And now that she has revealed she may run for a Senate seat next year, will you begin to agree with the description?

Uson may also be running for that same Senate seat, so, the end to their feud is as cloudy as the sky in rainy weather.

The skeptical and cynical Pinoy says that the married Filipina in the infamous South Korea kiss is part of a public relations (PR) machinery meant to distract the madlang pehpohl’s attention from the country’s woes. Well, the kiss has indeed helped us forget that China has been expanding to islands which other countries, including Pinas, are claiming as theirs. And these countries seem helpless, barely able to watch from afar as China continues to build, build, build on those islands. Much like what happens when Kris or Uson rants—the Pinoy seemingly helpless while listening to their blah, blah, blah.

Each person has his own niche and surely it’s not spreading blah. He’s better off focusing on his life and improving that life as he moves forward from one learning experience to the next.

A person who thrives in a world of blah must be the most insecure creature on Earth. He needs the blah to cover up his duh. But Kris and Uson are definitely not duh as proven by their respective achievements. If their rants will catapult them to the august halls of the Senate next year, give their PR teams a pat on the back, preferably the a**, and congratulate them for a job well done.

We look back to the years when Kris had talk shows where she always ended up talking about herself no matter who she was interviewing then. Thus, when Uson recently posted a video addressed to Kris and told her, “This is not about you,” somehow the Pinoy understood what Uson meant.

Kris roars like the indoraptor in “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom” which must be the dinosaur version of “John Wick,” thanks to action scenes from start to finish. Spoiler alert—at the end of the movie, dinosaurs are released to the world, much like the senators transferring to the new P10-billion Senate building in Taguig. Hmmm. Good luck na lang.

Meanwhile, the world mourns the sudden deaths of Spade and Bourdain, somehow reminding us that life is too short to dwell on the blahs and duhs.