question everything

talk is cheap. and everyone is taking advantage of the discounts.

i am a fence-sitter by nature. i try not to get in the middle of an argument; i avoid taking sides in public; i am usually careful about making statements because i do not like to be caught flat-footed.

i became aware of politics at a very early age. i couldn't avoid it, however much i wanted to. i was treading on dangerous ground, though we all pretended we weren't. so when i got older i lacked the rebellious (or activist) tendencies of people my age. some people might have thought that a person with a developed social consciousness that i had would have been out there running for student council, or joining cause-oriented organizations. sure i participated in sit-outs, or at no-tuition-hike marches around the campus. otherwise i couldn't care less. and the fact is, the other kids who were like me didn't want to deal with any more politics either.

which brings me to today. these past weeks i have been listening to all that talk on the media about the president. my roommate would whine about her clients getting worried, and we would agree that this sort of thing is actually normal. someone at the office would react at another statement, and would invite comment with her conviction that pgma should resign. all throughout i listened, watched, observed. i would utter non-committal statements, throw out questions, agree on some points. but i don't think i'll ever make a public stand about my opinion. to be honest, the conspiracy surrounding the whole presidency issue is too complex for one to be able to comprehend completely, because we are not god and we are not omniscient. i'll just wait for the events to unfold, because only then can we know where we are headed to.