insight after a hard day's work

This afternoon I was on board for my 5-6pm radio program. Normally, my play list is made up of folk, rock, and country music and some local alternative hits. I had this very persistent caller who dialed the phone 10 times just to hear his favorite song. Feeling annoyed, I granted the request. Suddenly the lyrics of the song struck me. Napaisip ako ng todo. Bakit kaya may ganun?


"There's a fruitcake for everybody, there's a fruitcake for everyone. There are three sides of every story....." These are the lines of the song of the Eraserheads entitled "Fruitcake" which kept a lot of people asking; "why 3 sides?" Reality is matter of perspective. Most of the time people see reality from their own point of view and conclude that this reality is the TRUTH irregardless of how the other person would see it. However, the epistemological process is not just limited to the subject interpreting the object. It is the relationship of the subject and the object. And talking about the truth as conformity to knowledge, fact, actuality & logic, therefore personal interpretations does not cover the whole of the so called "truth". This will lead to the "third side" of the truth which possibly could neither be found in the subject nor the object. It could be that this truth is the product of the relationship or experience between the subject and the object. However, this reality which is the product of the said experience becomes a "mystery". It is not the poverty but the richness of the said experience. It is a reality which man cannot speak directly. To attempt to clarify this said experience is to draw on analogies afforded by the experience of the world.

In the movie Goodwill Hunting, the psychologist who was played by Robin Williams asked his student: "If I am going to ask you about Michelangelo, probably you are going to tell me about his personality, his works, the Sistine Chapel or even his sexual orientation. But can you tell me the smell of Sistine Chapel?" This dialogue in that movie is a typical comparison between understanding and perception as based from readings and from concrete experiences. There is a great difference between seeing things from afar just like reading them in the books or watching movies and the like than being there and getting involved. In the movies or in books, it is the author or the director's point of view which guides the spectator or the reader what to see or where to see. Not counting out the role of the Music Director who is there to add music to lead the feelings of the spectators. But real life is not like the said experience. Just like in the movie Walk in the Clouds, when the leading lady's father told her: "Tell me the truth!" she responded, "Who's side of truth, yours or mine?" The closer a subject gets to the object, the more engrossed and affected the subject becomes and in the process, the subjects identity could not be separated anymore from the object because they are involved with each other.
Ang dami ko nang sinabi... hehe ang gulo...

All i want to say is that let us just be reminded that still there are things in this world which doesn't change: sincerity, concern, compassion...... And there is this four-letter word which is most often neglected: LOOK!