Thursday, October 20, 2011

Reasons

People tend to give endless reasons. We tend to give reasons to the point that they are already obvious fakes, impossible, awkward, or whatever adjective you can tell. People give reasons for various reasons. Maybe we did something wrong, made a wrong decision, or probably we forget something, or we are just lazy to do it so we give reasons.

Reasons delay a job, like if you're working for a deadline, but when someone does not do her job and just makes a reason so that she might be safe like for example, she's on duty, or the other people are not contacting her. You call that excused? Probably. But here's the catch. You see her at school hanging out with her friends. You receive her text messages telling that she's roaming a school with her boy friend. You chat with her best friend saying that they are both watching a show. Is she excused? Nope. Not at all. Hypothetical conclusion to that, she's plain lazy to do it and just plain stupid to act like it's just nothing important. But, don't mind it. After all, those reasons might jeopardize her in the future.

Reasons bring burden to other people's lives, because reasons only focus to own desires. He leaves a group of strangers in a hall while he's there on another group, practicing his songs -- for his group. Hello?! He is the head of the group and he'll leave them like that? He might reason out, he's busy doing this and that, but he's still the head, and he might start leading them first before focusing on his own things. He was given that task anyway, so he must prove that he got what it takes.

Reasons kill one's reputation and integrity. He gives an impossible reason for being caught having kodigos (a kodigo is something [eg, paper] where the answers are found. This is where keywords are found and are pretty used by cheaters.). He says that he wrote those just after the test papers were given, but, seeing the kodigo, we can already see many things written in there. How improbable was that reason? Now, he must face the consequences of cheating. He's got good intentions -- to be the best in class. But the means of doing that is just plain wrong, and the reasons for doing those, let's ask him.

I don't mean to hurt people here. My reason is that, I just want to tell the whole world the wrong side of reasons. Let this be constructive criticisms to those I openly attacked here. No harm done. But let these serve as challenge to, at least, improve your reasons for the future. Or maybe, just do their jobs correctly, or even better -- tell the true reason behind it. Or even better, do the right thing. It will be for your own good after all if you do this. No more bushing around.

There are also good things about reasons – if we give the true reasons.

Reasons like when we broke something, like for example, a glass. At first we might deny we did it. But, after a while, we may tell the truth and tell the reason why we broke it. We may say, “I did it accidentally because I was cleaning the house. I suddenly broke it.” Or we might say, “I broke it because I was so furious. I was not able to control my anger.” At least, we told the truth, didn’t we?

Or we give reasons when in class. Like when the teacher says, “Why are we not flying?” We proudly say, “because of the gravity of the Earth.” That’s good reasoning there!

In the end, Reasons has two faces, the good one and the bad one. Still, it’s up to us to give reasons behind something. As an adage goes, “there’s a reason for everything.” There’s a reason why you’re here. There’s a reason why the sky is blue. There’s a reason behind this and that. The only thing left is to tell the real reason or not, or just use reasons to make alibis.

Let me conclude this post with a song by Rico Blanco entitled Antukin (literal translation: Sleepy. LOL):

"Kung ayaw may dahilan, kung gusto parating merong paraan."

(If you don't like, there's always a reason. If you like, there's always a way)

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