Wizard's Seventh Rule

Life is the future, not the past.

Terry Goodkind puts it, “..The past can teach us, through experience, how to accomplish things in the future, comfort us with cherished memories, and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished. But only the future holds life. To live in the past is to embrace what is dead. To live life to its fullest, each day must be created anew. As rational, thinking beings, we must use our intellect, not a blind devotion to what has come before, to make rational choices.”

On the NBA Finals

The Spurs won and the Pistons lost the NBA Finals; it has already past so there’s no need to sulk. Learn through experience (a 2 out of 13 three point shooting percentage won’t cut it in the Finals), comfort yourself with cherished memories (hey, they’ve came a long way from a 0-2 standing), and provide the foundation of what has already been accomplished (need more three point shooting practice).

On Jueteng

..”To live in the past is to embrace what is dead.” We, as a nation, have been haunted by the destablizing effects of jueteng, from the time of Cory to the current Arroyo presidency. C’mon people, jueteng is an old issue. As Tulfo puts it, “Why would Arroyo put her hand into the jueteng pie that caused the downfall of the Erap presidency? She’s either too stupid or too arrogant!” We cannot move as a nation if we continue to haunt ourselves with recycled issues such as jueteng.

Let’s pick up the pieces from our past failures, and move on. Anak ng jueteng naman oh!