*Spongebob
and Patrick, buddies for life! That is how your relationship revolves now. But you
know what? She could have been your queen, you could have been her king;
together, you could have been your own kind of Mickey and Minnie; the living
Romeo and Juliet of today…if only you tried, if only you believed...If only. *
Every
step we take is a matter of life and death, well probably not as much if it was
on picking what kind of cake you were going to get, but then again, all the
choices we make, make us. And believe
me, for some reason, life could not get
any harder, it keeps on bombarding us with yes or no’s, a great deal of should
I do it now, or will I let it go, and many other things that make us oh- so crazy!
But
what should we do to get through this rocky road of decision- making?
Let
us get it from ‘Lather and Nothing Else’ by Hernando Tellez- a thrilling and
creditable story of a barber determining on whether to execute or not to
execute an executioner who came to him for a shave; reminding us that it is
very important to actually think before
you act, to do the right thing even
though it is hard, and at times, to accept
that some things are just not meant for you.
Whenever we get too happy or too sad or too angry or
overwhelmed, we tend to do things, which in our right consciousness, would never
think of doing; that is when the problem comes in: when we let our emotions
outweigh our intelligence. Fortunately, in Lather and Nothing Else, that was
not the scenario. Because although the confusion and slight idea of persecution
came shooting into the barber’s mind the moment Captain Torres went in his
shop, sat down for the shaving, chatted, and most especially closed his eyes, the
barber, amidst the temptation recalled the significance
of not acting impulsively and weighing his possible actions first, before
finally choosing what to do, thus, leading him to do the right thing which
is to let the captain go out of his shop, shaved nicely and alive.
It is true that “Sometimes the hardest thing and the right
thing are the same,” may it be in attaining your goals, making sacrifices,
or simply in matters of life and love. It could have been hard to just give it
up or to leave somebody behind, and most of the time, we do not even understand
fully ‘why?’ but we do know deep inside that we should, because it is right and
someday, the reason will be clear to us
and we would be happy that we had made the right decision. Just like the
barber who, despite the fact that he wanted so badly to kill the man as he fully
deserves it for all the lives he destroyed, did not, because the barber knows
that although he may be angry, he is a professional barber doing his job well and
will definitely not want to be likened to the man he is shaving- a murderer.
That killing in the patio of the
schoolyard should have been the last if only he did it already. He was almost
there, just a speck of force and inches away. Just- one- stab- then it is done.
But, the point we should remember is that there
are times when we just have to let go and that ”we do not even have to understand
everything, because sometimes it is not even meant to be understood, but to be
accepted.” Also, maybe Captain Torres would wake up one day and change for
the better and how would that happen if he is dead? The barber, by doing that
also went away from staining his name permanently for an encounter that is
temporary.
Every
so often we regret why we were just until “almost there”. "So near, yet so
far," it is said. But likening it to Hernando Tellez’s Lather and Nothing
Else; the barber, just by pondering deeply before making his choices, giving
worth to self- control, simply letting go of things unintended for him and by
purposely missing that chance of killing the captain meant saving his life and
leaving that mark of him as a good and honorable man.
*And
probably, God has it all planned out; we simply have to believe that tomorrow,
the sun will shine brighter and that once’ dying’ chapter will end as a
'happily ever after, after all.' Maybe one day, when you are so over with your
life and you are an inch away from bursting
in tears, you'll suddenly hear a knock from your door and as you expect someone
to just "end it now," instead of a knife popping out from behind,
held gently in his hands is that cake you have always loved or that ice cream
that makes you feel like a kid again, or fine your favorite flower or whatever;
instead of giving you a swoon with a
poisoned handkerchief, he electrocutes
you with the gleam in his eyes- you just stay still, nothing coming out of your
mouth; instead of killing you, he gives you an asthma attack. Lol no he hugs
you so tight you cannot even breathe and instead of saying, “hands up, give me
everything, or else this is the end,” he says…” just listen and forgive me in
everything, please, let us start again?” and finally, your face betrays you and
that smile just escapes. “Yes.”*
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