Article Writing

One Article a Day (April 7, 2012)

From this day forward, unless there is something wrong, I pledge to write at least one article a day.  I have been delinquent in my writing output for far too long.  This will be an easy thing to do unless laziness in my back.  There are just too many things to write about and I am far too lazy by letting things go by unrecorded.

Today is Black Saturday.  Such is called such because Christ is supposed to be dead (according to Christian legends), but just like any phenomenon, it just took a life of its own.  For lazy people, the holy week became an excuse not to do things or to put things off up to next week. For some, it became an excuse to party, to celebrate and to bum around.  For some, it became an excuse to create a new tradition of their own thus a platform to a new variety of mutation of bizarre practices.  And believe you me, a decade from now, such a celebration would turn into another thing which is far from its intended rationale altogether.

For me, it is a reason to take a rest, for my employer, it is a reason not to pay its employees.  Yes, you have some free time but no money to finance other pursuits.  Now that is irony.

You have time to spend with your family but too much time with them and the nerve under your skin gets irritated.  You want to do some other things but you realized that there is not enough money to go around to finance whatever catches your fancy.

Yes, it is a once in a year time to bond with your family but you come to realize that even your own family  have their own pursuits that doesn’t include you and the twist now is that you have become the intruder in their world.

Black Saturday is supposed to be a holy celebration, the irony here it that we Filipinos have taken it into our own and transform it to something altogether.  From the religious to the mundane and trivial - from something holy to petty.  I started writing this article with some half hearted effort and now that my wife and family are up and about, I have totally lost the motivation to go on because of some unavoidable distraction.  There are just too many things to do and just a limited time.

The computer has a term for this, multi-tasking, unfortunately – I have not mastered such.  So many things to do and so little time.

Can I have some creativity to say something significant or just like anybody else; I am just occupying space waiting for something significant to happen.  From something holy to something that is called inspiration.

Or maybe, what I need to do is to combine ideas, holy and inspiration thus the word holy inspiration.  And now we are back where we started, from something holy coming from Black Saturday and Holy Week.  Now that is the ultimate paradox, the more you want to change things, the more identical they become.  From persons, events and places, such rings true.  Maybe the phenomenon “organized chaos” is not really organized after all; maybe we just don’t have the complete picture.  Maybe it is really organized; it is just our myopic perspective that is in the way.