You must have reached a point where nothing matters anymore. Not even the blogger's pleas for you to stay in the group until the issues are resolved and we shall be one and indivisible again.
The enormity of the oppression committed by a member whose moral-intellectual orientation has been the subject of unsavory conversations must have been too much to bear. The blogger understands. You can't take it anymore.
Speaking of "you can't take it anymore, " does it also apply to the blogger. I was coming out of a noisy computer shop yesterday, when suddenly, I was seized by something--was it inertia or ennui?
And then the blogger remembered the "encounter" where the oppressor heaped expletives against him. You know that we did not hit back but treated the incident as an activity of a mad man in hell.
But there was a postscript of what happened in Laoag, my hometown, my pride. That was during the 5th International Iluko Literary Conference at the Mariano Marcos State University. The Fil-Am Australian Lady met the adversary in private in one of the rooms of the university.
Days later, the blogger learned that the Lady gave money the tormentor in the amount of at least P1,500. We are not faulting her for her generosity. After all, she is kind and generous to people, especially member of Timpuyog dagiti Mannurat iti Iluko iti Filipinas.
But there are moral interpretations of acts. In this case, was the oppressor rewarded for verbally abusing the blogger, who is the adviser of Timpuyog dagiti Mannurat iti Iluko iti Filipinas? Was it alright for a senior TMI writer to go outside, as the foul-mouthed writer did, the boundary of decency and fair play?
The best thing that should have been done under the circumstances was for the parties to talk among themselves and solved the problem right then and there.
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| The blogger with the late Kerima Polotan, one of the Philippines best essayists during her time |
