Bakit ba Masarap ang Controversy?

Madalas ay di nakukumpleto ang usapang barkada o ang TV news kung walang issue o controversy.  Personally, sa di pagmamalinis ay ilang beses ko na ring nasubukang mag-level down sa chismis, back-biting, libakan, condemning talks and whatever.  And i kinda know what makes crap talk feel so good.

Here are three of a lot:

1. You feel so clean when you talk about how dirty people are.

Sila ay ganito - ganyan at ikaw ay di ganon.  You get to prove you're not something like the one you're talking about.  And your friends agree.  Pulling people down seems to put you up a bit.  It makes you feel so mighty when you're judging.

2. You have an opportunity for creativity sa pamamagitan ng fabrication.

Dagdag - bawaas! Who doesn't want a good story?  If we have good stories, let's make them better sa pamamagitan ng pagdaragdag ng kung anong possibleng rason ng pangyayari or an insight on the motive.  And siyempre pag sa opinion mo, a part of it is unnecessary or would give justice to your subject, e bawas na.

3. Sikat ka pag marami kang alam.

Siyempre naman, you're friends want news too.  The more you talk about an issue, the more you know.  The more you know, the more you talk and the more would listen.  Knowledge is power.  Masarap maging sikat.  You're the life of the conversation!

Para sa'kin, sa ngayon, it's enough that you're aware.  Maraming masama sa mundo.  Alamin para maiwasan.  Mas maraming mabuting bagay na pwedeng pag-usapan like how to make the bad things better.  And yeah.. I always ask myself, "Would you rather curse the darkness than light a candle?".

Everything works together for good.

The way you see people is as better, if not as much, as how you see yourself.

One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. 

François-René de Chateaubriand

If the picture you're looking at is kinda ugly, check your lense, baka may crack or something.  Fix it.  Peek again.  If it's really ugly, find a way to make it beautiful.

Encourage.