Nic's outright frustration

Posted on August 1, 2006 - Filed Under Punch Forum |

Eduardo Pontaoe
1 August 2006

Let us not condemn Nic as fast as he can blink. On what he said; I think it was taken literally and out of context.

His belief on the Filipino being born corrupt, is a supposition…a conjecture… an assumption on what he believes in.

To him, it’s personal. An outright frustration. He loses his cool. Not to be conceived as disrespectful, an insult or an unabashed intention to do damage to everybody’s self-esteem.

Can you blame him? Losing his pride and nationalism on a country he loved, is like having a knife embedded in his heart. What he is seeing before his eyes, a country destroyed by extreme factional politics is hard to endure.

The only outlet remaining is to shout to the world how the Philippines has become. Oblivious he is to his surroundings, missteps happened which he deemed insignificant.

He was wrong but he is right.