Justice

I truly enjoyed reading Madelline V. Romero's blog entry on February 25, 2009, titled "A Sad Sight" (http://mvromero.livejournal.com/).

Madelline, a fine young lady all of 27 years and a native of Tarlac, was a former colleague at a USAID-Winrock International program called AMORE. She writes rather well. She hit the mark, so to speak, in the blog entry I am referring to.

At a time when we reminisce and celebrate a former president's greatest legacy, i.e. toppling a well-entrenched dictator and restoring democracy, the downfall of overlords and despots, and their cohorts, is very exhilarating. Madelline's blog entry almost sent me into an adrenaline-driven fit of frenzy, much like the tarantella dance, with its feverish, wild, erotic gyrations which are supposed to be an antidote to the bite of a venomous tarantula. It also imbued me with the fresh realization that karmic laws operate in our midst. It is almost a universal belief that we reap according to what we have sown. Madelline's tyrant (who was also my tyrant for the whole of nine months) could not escape or be exempted from these "laws of life".

Revenge may be sweet, but it is morally wrong. Divine Justice is sweetest.