For Today

 

04 January 2022

Who says I'm not curious? Why did I think I've given upon learning? I haven't. If I did, I wouldn't pause My Fair Lady on Netflix to check what Wagnerian denoted when the deuteragonist said wagnerian mother in his dialogue with an orchestral accompaniment.

If I'm not, then I wouldn't have browser tabs open in double digits.

It's interesting how stable I am today.
First I read 1 King 8:41-61. It barely made sense to me. Now I re-read it. It is the king Solomon, praying to God before his constituents. He did not fail to acknowledge  how exalted and powerful God is: hear prayers of the faithful though they are foreigners so everyone will fear You; God can give people over to their enemies and as quickly cause their captors to favor them.   But he also acknowledged how God has feelings, how he becomes angry and how he bestows favor.

All of which can be swayed by prayer——the foreigner, those at war, the captives, the contrite——if we pray to God, He will favor us. It is conditional - hearts must be fully committed to the Lord God, living by His decrees and obeying His commands.

It is a reading on the power of prayer. Without the covenant of Jesus in place, prayer was sufficient to gain God's favor, prayer supplemented by inner obedience at outward behavior.

Then I went to work. I still hear myself thinking I don't want to go to work and I'm tired. I still have stomach trouble when I think of work. But I still went.

I watched The Sound of Your Heart which was about as long as Blue Period with episodes less than half hour in duration, but with 2 episodes less.

Here, I was in stitches, the edges where my lips meet almost gaped like Joker's. It's hilarity comes from the absurdity of his situations and his zany family. I remember thinking at times how unintentionally Seok got even with his brother and how though they try to exercise their logic, being obedient and dramatic caused them to traipse along an original life.

With fortitude I am now conscious of, I moved on with my task, no matter how gradual. The tasks involved in completing the IPCR is progressing. I still jump through different tasks as I've done in my private time, switching unceremoniously among chores like folding and storing clothes, keeping strewn objects, searching song lyrics and watching 3 shows in Netflix. Despite the let down of losing water service (Thank goodness it's temporary but this might be commonplace in the future if we don't heed Greta Thunberg. Then I envision myself pointing fingers randomly and saying you first as I'm also being pointed at on taking steps at abating climate change), I was composed, thinking of the setback as a challenge I could find a way around. I will adapt (chanelling Yatora Yaguchi).

I came home to a house without water in a place where the advisory stated the water interruptions would start on Jan 5-20 from 7am-midnight. I have the right to despair not having water as early as Jan 4. But in this life, within the 5 kilometer radius, there are homes who have no water since yesterday. Same as my pre-Christmas travel of approximately an hour from the orange building to my house on my bike compared to those in Katarungan who had to travel 4 hours to get back home from commuting from Muntinlupa. Other people have it worse than me but they live on. I should too.

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My Fair Lady tackles discrimination based on speech. Being a function derivative of one's lifestyle, speech dissects people into sects of status. It was supposed to present a bygone time but it prevails notwithstanding. People with certain inflections are deemed provincial and seen as less than literate, as inferior, less cultured or gullible. We are to live free but should wear the trappings of civility to have unbridled access to our freedoms. Consciously subjugating yourself to societal disciplines leaves you free to exert your freedoms within its confines. I'll definitely get back on discussing My Fair Lady after watching its entirety. Streaming it is until the 31st so Perfume could wait.