labels: slut, dumb, corrupt, a*shole. yup, just like your typical grocery items, human beings are labeled to determine their so called "value" to society.
my sorority sisters and i have been extremely close to each other over the past few weeks (for good reasons!). well, not all of us. i haven't seen a good number of my younger sisters for quite some time. today at our project with gawad kalinga, i had the chance to interact with a very special sis. she is special because i couldn't count the number of times that i had the inkling to recommend her expulsion due to her shady reputation. i was dumbstruck when i found out that she got a very HIGH score in an aptitude exam for aspiring _____ students [sheeesh! i'm a bloody senior law student who had the (mis)fortune of interacting with very intelligent persons but boy was i impressed!].
i remember my philo professor who once taught us about how we tend to reduce people into categories - rich, poor, beautiful, ugly, righteous, dishonorable. what a slap in the face! i've been trying to get rid of this person whose potentials far exceed mine. not only that, today i saw how good she was in dealing with pesky little children (something that i will never be able to achieve even if my life depended on it).
what i learned today - "you can never can tell :)" - a life lesson that has been dangling in front of my face which i chose to ignore. i'm 100% sure that tomorrow or the next day or the day after, i'll be back to my old habit of categorizing, compartmentalizing and "kahon-izing" people. thank God! because when i start having this so-called monopoly to morality, that's the day when i will shoot myself in the head. but i'm grateful for what happened today.
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