Commentaries: BBM Absent in The Forum: Good Move or It Will Backfire?

Two important interviews/forums:  

First, the Interview of GMA's Jessica Soho last January 22, 2022, with all the presidentiables and everybody was invited to attend.  This was done to help Filipino citizens make an informed choice for Eleksyon 2022. In this must-see special, Soho boldly asks the presidential aspirants the questions that need to be asked – their intentions behind running for the position, the controversies thrown at them, their stand on pressing issues, and their concrete plans should they be elected.  Unexpected and revealing questions will also be asked for viewers to get to know the aspirants in-depth. Unfortunately, BBM declined to be a part of the show for personal reasons.

Second was the Kapisanan ng Broadcaster sa Pilipinas Prexy forum ("Panata sa Bayan) in cooperations with CNN Philippines last Fenruary 

4, 2022. It will be the first time for the five presidential candidates to appear together in live nationwide radio and television broadcasts. 

The event had given the candidates the chance to present their qualifications and platforms of government to the people. BBM also was a no-show due to a hectic schedule.

It seemed as though Bongbong Marcos was copying Joseph Estrada's strategy of snubbing the interviews/forum two decades back. That scheme worked in Estrada's favor when he won that year.  What makes people wonder why the frontrunner of the race kept on absenting himself from these opportunities to showcase himself and further cement his lead. As one analyst said being available for interviews or dodging the interviews will either reinforce or discredit a candidate's narrative and chances.

"it might even backfire" the analyst warned.

It looked like BBM abide and is loyal to the,  "less talk, less mistake; no talk, no mistake" doctrine.  However political pundits are worried, "This strategy can fall flat and misfire. 

Those who live on social media can perish on social media. It remains a question whether it is actually a good strategy at this point 

in time to actually skip these interviews and fora,"

Your thought guys?

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If You Feel Something Is Wrong Seek Professional Help

Everybody has to take care of their own side of the street and make them clean. It means being clear and self-responsible in your life and cleaning your emotional state up when you mess up. Just like dog owners, it’s best not to leave your emotional poop stinking up the sidewalk for others to step on. Scoop the poop out right away and move on.

So when you realize something is wrong you should know how to act when depression hits. When you get in that space, you recognize it, and when you identify what’s going on, and what needs to be done by all means do it right away. Seek help and make it your first option.

You can always argue that it is easier said than done. You see when (a voice from within) your inner demons and personal struggles are whispering to you, that it is A-OK to harbor anger and resentment or deny or deprive someone of your love and the other voice (your conscience) castigate you for it, this is where the conflict and the battle from within starts.

But somewhere amidst the noise and the cacophony of your internal combat, there’s is still YOU, the final arbiter, the final judge, the voice that chooses which road to tread. You can’t tone down which voice was deafening but you have the option to follow the clearest one and teach the others to back off.

After that, you seek help from professionals.

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Happy Faces Is The Real Face of Depression

  Mostly depressed patients has these hallmark signs:

Feeling sad or empty

Having little interest or pleasure in doing things

Experiencing a change in appetite with weight loss or weight gain

Trouble falling or staying asleep, or sleeping too much

Being tired, fatigued, and having no energy

Feeling worthless or guilty that you have let yourself or your family down

Moving slowly or the opposite – being overly fidgety and restless

Having difficulty thinking or concentrating on things such as reading the newspaper or watching TV

Letting personal hygiene go – not bathing or dressing well

Recurring thoughts of hurting yourself or thinking that you’d be better off dead

But there are people who manage to show the world a happy facade.  And you know the reasons? They don't want their loved ones to worry. Maybe the situation is too much for her to share with anybody. Or the situation is too personal that confiding it with a family member is adding more stress to the person. 

Some doctors are calling it a smiling depression. Although this is still not a clinical diagnosis per se, it is very common. Smiling depression happens when the patient masked her symptoms. They hide behind a smile to make loved ones feel that they are okay ... that they are happy.

This type of depression sometimes remained undetected as the patient make all the effort to make her symptoms obscure. To the untrained, a depressed person is somebody who is very sad and has crying spells, & are unable to sleep or eat.

Individuals with smiling depression make use of her defense mechanisms as they often look happy to the outside world and keep their emotions bottled up.

Indeed the mind is difficult to understand, not to mention its complexities.

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Trolling Destiny Wagner's Hair

There is a new internet hobby Thailand has, and that is trolling.

Well, it's all about trolls and their captive audience.  Trolls such as Nawat, Coco, Ian et al, are people who leave intentionally provocative or offensive messages on the internet in order to get attention, cause trouble, or upset someone. 

The trolls promote antipathetic emotions of disgust and outrage, which morbidly gives them a sense of pleasure. They are Someone who brings something off-topic into the conversation in order to make that person/ or person mad.  

They are the monsters who hide in darkness and harass people. Internet trolls have a manifesto of sorts, which states they are doing it for the “lulz,” or laughs. 

The controversy between TalkMissThailand and Destiny Wagner is creating a lot of hubbub and noise in the pageant world. But this time The admin of this Thai group has gone an all-time low when they compare Deestiny's braided hair to cow's shit. Really ...  and from the looks of it this Thai group has really gone berserk with the way they disapprove or criticize somebody, this group's actions are bordering on ethnocentricism - it's the belief that one's ethnic group is superior to another. Ethnocentric individuals believe they're better than other individuals for reasons based solely on their heritage.

What is wrong with braided hair? Destiny is a black woman why shouldn't she have braided hair?  She is proud of who she is, her culture, and her heritage, And for this group to dictate & insinuate preposterous and absurd ideas is like throwing mud to political correctness that everybody wants to practice.

As a matter of fact, Kim Kardashian has a fancy for braided hair, and on one  MTV awards night, she sported Fulani braids which should have been treated as some kind of flattery (as in imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. However, Kim was accused of CULTURAL APPROPRIATION  - defined as the adoption of elements of one culture by another, especially in cases where a dominant culture exploits aspects of a minority culture outside of its original cultural context and/or at the expense of the original culture for personal gain.

I don't think Kim meant anything bad when she sported that hair style. There are Blacks or Asians dying their hair blonde, who can say no to them if they want that.

Going back to this Thai group who are playing with words just to make a point, Pia Wurtzbach has already warned us the dangersof not CHECKING OR toning down our emotions when serving  their opinions especially in social media: THINK BEFORE YOU CLICK!

We already see this scenario a lot of times.  Somebody is gung ho about giving somebody a piece of their mind ... and then later when the heat is unbearable you see them cowering in the corner looking for safety.  And the first thing they do is erase what they posted.  Silly but true.

#Talk Miss Thailand in Destiny's case is most likely driven by a need for attention. Their comments, however, that Destiny's braided hair looked like cow's manure sparked negative attention from netizens, so they thought they succeeded as it gives them the illusion of being important because people are talking about it.

And now that the case is burning, and netizens are showing their disgust, they are raising a white flag of retreat.

And as they surrender their first instinct is to remove and delete them.  Fortunately, some well-meaning members were able to copy and paste their work, thus giving them an indelible and never-to-be-forgotten lesson in internet use.