Sometime ago, about the time that Johnny Depp’s (one of the most handsome faces of Hollywood) “Finding Neverland” VCD hit Calbayog City, my children kept bugging me into viewing it. So I did and found out that the story was really good and that Kate Winslet’s, Johnny’s leading lady in the movie, performance was at par with his. And because we are hopeless romantics, except for those who have truly hardened their hearts, I cried a river - which was well applauded by my children. They got me once again!
Getting back to contemplation and reflection again, especially in my moments of solitude, I could not help but pity the women fighters in the frontline who are there to attain “gender equality”. Sensing something wrong in our approach, we are probably going nowhere and maybe finding Neverland instead.
Unless we give absolute seriousness in this fight and put our whole hearts into it, we will never realize that education or re-education (others call it “evaluation or re-evaluation” but whatever the term maybe doesn’t really matter) regarding human nature is the only way to go. There are definitely no shorts-cuts to answers/resolutions on big issues and problems like this. We have got to launch our appeal on every human being. Every human being matters because “rebellion is a knot of the heart, not of the mind” (Stephen R. Covey, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People) “for what is in the mind is in the heart” (from the book: You Are What You Think). The mind and the heart are two (2) very inseparable important parts of any human being.
This is where education on androgyny must come in. Unfortunately for the most of us, most of the times we choose to remain in our comfort zones upon information of the difficulty in obtaining androgyny. It is either we are raised in complete tolerance or total negligence that we lack self-discipline and thus, acquire the wrong kind of values that we become who and what we are. Indeed the acquisition of androgyny is very difficult because it involves a lot of self-discipline and prayers. We need to be creatures of our great God that must do our part and trust for His grace.
We must change ourselves first before we can effectively ask of the others. Thomas Harris’ equation in life to believe is something worthwhile to think about: Knowledge + Ethics = Behavior. Quite simple and easy to look, friends, but it is very difficult to work out. However, if one is dedicated enough because of healthy self-love he/she is sure to find true joy, peace, and contentment in his heart.
To believe in matters and things ephemeral is to fail. We have to be convinced that until the world’s end there will yet be enumerable frontiers. It must be because of this and the fact that we are mere passers-by here that we must acknowledge the urgency to look at ourselves honestly… and fight our evilness fiercely.
The truth is, we are a very insecurity-driven people! And until the time that we have gathered enough courage to accept this we will never, never find our true selves. In effect, we will forever be divided among ourselves simply because we are lost!
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