The trouble with destiny TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/13/2010

The trouble with destiny

TABLETS OF STONE Larry Faraon, OP 06/13/2010 \"If Mrs. Cory Aquino didn’t pass away, Noynoy Aquino would not have run and won the presidency.” “If Sen. Mar Roxas insisted on running for president, then former President Joseph Estrada would be our president today.” “If Sen. Manny Villar gave way to Erap, then we have Erap as the president, giving Noynoy a run for his candidacy.” “If there was no cyber cheating in the elections that showed incredible results such as the zero vote of Erap in Montalban, Rizal where he put up his Erap City and landing third in his own hometown, San Juan, then Erap should have been proclaimed president.” “If the late INC elder Eraño Manalo were alive, the Iglesia ni Cristo could have endorsed him that could have given him victory.” The “ifs” are long and many. There is quick fix answer to these “ifs” — namely, destiny. This is how we perceive destiny, a set mind toward the finality of an event manifested through a barrage of unanswered “ifs” and “buts,” an intellectual exercise in futility, where the only delight is in the act itself of wishfully attempting to reverse events and their timing. Events perceived as chance are perceived as revelatory episodes leading to destiny followed by a willful surrender to the will of somebody “up there” who must have “arranged” such illogical sequence of events. This may be true if “somebody up there” is in the mold of Zeus, Venus, Hades or the Olympian gods who enjoy playing with the mortals’ lives and actions. Destiny is never god-play. For a game called politics, the gods may not be willing to play; only the lesser gods of fame, wealth, corruption and elitism are willing to gamble, and obviously, they won. The assumption of President-proclaimed Noynoy Aquino to the presidency is never borne out of destiny. Even the timing of Mrs. Corazon Aquino’s death on the eve of the election does not belong to that category. Indeed, Mrs. Aquino’s demise may be destiny, but not how the yellows and the sympathetic biased media swung such sad event and turned it around pathetically into a political leverage, as Noynoy Aquino stood at the parlor’s seat ready to be remade, recast and reoriented toward a political stage and future, something he himself never thought or dreamt he would step into.... MORE     Source:  The Daily Tribune URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/20100613com7.html

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