Verbo

 Naghukay ako sa blog site ko sa friendster, tinamad akong gumawa ng bago kaya eto, copy-paste mode muna ako. 

As time goes by, many people, friends, colleagues, and acquaintances always seemingly ask me, why did I always tend to write or create posts and write-ups using the not so familiar or “out of this world” Filipino language. When they read my creations, they sometimes go crazy to understand the things, ideas and words they sometimes called “understandable.”

Well, haha. Sometimes, I refuse to answer them right away. First I ask my self. Do I need to explain all the things that I do, act or say? Do I need to keep on staying on the probable norms of every individual that I encounter in my life? Is it my responsibility to elucidate to you all the words that comes from my mouth? And the weird things that pop on my weird wits, maybe all those things are unmanageable, involuntary.

I remember, when I was in Secondary level of “learning”, my classmate told me, “Hey Robert, I come to think on the idea that maybe in the near future I will see you shouting at Mendiola, wearing black t-shirt and having some stubborn wounds, blood”/”Hoy Robert, alam mo naisip ko, pagdating nang araw, makikita kitang sumisigaw sa Mendiola, nakusuot ng itim na t-shirt at mayroong mga di matanggal na sugat, dugo.” He said that maybe because he and all my classmates back then are always used on my profound Filipino words. I cannot blame them, merely because like what my Professor in Physics 1 said “…naging estudyante ko, ayun natuto nang magsalita ng malalim na tagalog, tas ngayon namundok na.”/ “… she is one of my students back then,then she knows how to speak peculiar weighty tagalog words, and know she is in the mountain.”

I do not know where they get their thinking that only the activists have the right to choose those words. And relatively, we might go on to the conclusion that for you as a normal citizen of the republic, you shouldn’t be inclined speaking with those kinds of philosophical or heavy tagalog words. That principle is truly weird for me.   

One of the things that really bump my head every time I read our High school memorabilia, is the part of the book wherein some informal recognition was stated. And the part where citations for special students with special character where highlighted and will be passed to the next batch.

One of the lines stated there was: “Ang katatasan naman ni Robert Lue Asturias sa Wikang Filipino ay muling makikita kay… (I forgot the name of the guy)” And for that, maybe I should be proud of. To God be the Glory of course.

And that is me, should I say, like music those kinds of creations, essays, editorials, poems, short stories and writings that I made are like sweet melody into my ears when they are used with a bulk of figures of speech in the Filipino background. I am a kind of a writer that do not tend to spoon feed my reader. Sometimes, I should use those words to let them come to think on the unseen truth beneath them, and let them realize that they are a part of the ink I used in writing those creations. Judge it not with your eyes, but with the heart that can see the deepest meaning of a word.

Each and eveyone of us has strengths and weaknesses. But beyond all of this things one thing is Important. You should use these things in building the better you, touching someone's life and making it worthy in the Eyes of the Creator.