GUDANI’S FACE

it’s one of the downsides of working in all center,we’re barely aware of anything on the local news,except of course when people come traipsing down ayala to conduct their rallies.thanks to my roomies and to the fervent political entries of fellow bloggers,i’m not a hundred percent clueless…

one particular issue that caught my attention is that of Brigadier General Francisco Gudani.from what i’ve gathered, he has made certain allegations of cheating and anomalies in the recent presidential elections.him being one of the four general’s mentioned in the ‘hello,garci’ wiretapped conversation made it even more controversial.my concern is not that of whether the allegations are true or otherwise.

saw his face last night on the news, he’s aged, and he looked tired.i felt compelled to know all about the case he’s involved in and i just found myself in awe after doing so.here’s a military officer who’s served for too many years, about to retire, caught in the neverending web of who’s won the last election, who cheated and who did not.

clearly, hasn’t anybody realized how everything has become a vicious cycle.campaign, elections,declaration of winners and accusations of cheaters, investigations, hearings and rallies in ayala, mendiola and God knows where.it’s becoming familiar like the plots of those cheesy telenovelas, only difference is, this one is real.

seeing Gudani’s face, two questions formed in my already clouded brain.what if he’s telling the truth?would he be guaranteed safety, security…of his life , and of his family…what if he’s not?same question follows…as it is it seems the man has nowhere to go to, it’s damn if he did and damn if he don’t…no wonder the tired face…

as jean valjean has put it in les miserables, ‘if i speak,i am condemned,if i stay silent..i am dead’…

if someone like him could possibly courage the fight that he’s putting up and end up in the uncertain misery that he’s in right now,what else is left for those who doesn’t have a title under his name or badge to brag about?how else is anyone with less stature in the society going to face the government’s instability?

we, like Gudani, are becoming actors of stories we’re not even commissioned to act for…except of course we do not have a choice.maybe that’s it, Gudani…did not have a choice.

in time, the truth will come out, and Gudani will either be a hero or the opposite of it…in time Gudani will emerge triumphant or defeated…but either endings, i doubt if his face will return to what it was before…it will be just that, tired, wrinkled in a way that not even the Belo group could improved…the story would forever be etched in the eharts of those who’ve been involved…exhausted of our country’s theatrics…

if those people in those are up there already in the firing range, aren’t our faces the ones that are next in line?