ANO
AT SINO ANG PEG MO? When I say PEG KO si
Anne Curtis for a girlfriend ... what you’re saying is that you are setting a
standard for yourself. My next
girlfriend should and must be like or at least at par with the qualities of Anne
Curtis.
The ELECTION SEASON has arrived
in the Philippines ... and always, as some of us may had been involved in the
past ... we get into a lot of voters’ conscientization programs which hope to evoke
from participants their PEGS ... in terms of traits and qualities they wish to
see in an elected official. In the past,
we had so proudly formulated our PEGS ... the standard to which candidates whom
we will vote must subscribe. Thus, we
say: those candidates should exhibit the following basic qualities: MAKADIYOS, MAKABAYAN, MAKATAO at
MAKAKALIKASAN. Perfect SOUND BITE isn’t
it? MAKADIYOS, MAKABAYAN, MAKATAO at
MAKAKALIKASAN. A PERFECT PEG. A great
slogan and even a battle-cry ... that can also make good GET BLUED T-shirts.
PEGGING
as we know helps us set our ideal. But
will we actually meet someone really like Anne Curtis? Will any candidate truly fit our PEG of being
MAKADIYOS, MAKABAYAN, MAKATAO at MAKAKALIKASAN.
Our
Gospel today sets for us a very HIGH PEG:
“Be perfect just as your heavenly Father is perfect.” What a PEG?
You may agree that our BASIC PEGS for behaving in our communities are
themselves already difficult. Robert
Fulgum’s “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” suggests some basic rules of living (those
that may sound easy but often taken for granted). PEGS for community living says Fulgum include
the following: Share Everything; play fair; don’t hit people; put things
back where you found them; clean up your own mess; don’t take things that aren’t yours; say
you’re sorry when you hurt somebody; wash your hands before you eat;
flush; live a balanced life – learn some
and think some; and draw and paint and sing and dance; and play and work
everyday some. Take a nap every afternoon.
Basic as these rules are ... we acknowledge that we take the simplest
rules for granted. What more for a very
HIGH PEG suggested in the Gospel: “Be perfect just as your heavenly Father
is perfect.” Given so ... are we bound
to fail? Who can be perfect as the
Father is perfect? Even the scholastic
notions of the TRUE, GOOD and the BEAUTIFUL are traits ascribed to the
transcendent God. Is there anyone that
we’ve met who is totally TRUE, totally GOOD and totally BEAUTIFUL? How can God be our PEG and be at PAR with
Him?
I think we are called to
ASPIRE ... and to aspire is for FREE. To
follow the suggestions of the Father is to keep a closer relationship with
Him. He vows to call us a people peculiarly
his own, his own children. In aspiring ... we behold always that which we aspire to become.
