Women... how i love women. They are such fascinating creatures: indecisive, fickle, finicky, walking bundles of contradiction, a bundle of nerve sets, paranoia, ball and chain, addictive, substantial, essential, scatterbrained, confused, workaholic, afraid of insects, loves to dance, loves to sing, loves to make men squirm, sexy, elegant, delicate, omissive, sly, foxy, conniving, manipulative, sensitive, wrathful, computative, puzzle, cursed, strong, setimental, endearng...infinite words to define them but can be summed up under one word...
...Beautiful. The Corral is about a girl’s contemplation on the idea that her life’s connection with Mr. Perfecto in fear of being labeled as old maid despite being really irritated with him. Despite not being able to stand him, her choice was made when she decided to marry him regardless of the situation that needed to be pondered on. This gives us the idea on the horizon on the choices we make that features a side of thinking that paves ground on decision making for most people.
Love in the corn husks is a loving depiction of romance once forgotten and relived. The story revolved around tinang a simple house wife that used to work for a family. As she returns to invite her mistress for favor, she was surprised by a letter longed to be read by her containing the passion and admiration by along lost love named amado. As she takes a walk into halls of her memories with the man, it saddened her of what could have been and in the end she is left to live a life that she had already started with another love.
I find it weird that women work so hard to aim for equality with men in an era where anyone has the freedom to be whatever they want to be. There are some who want to be equal in terms of ability and capability, there are those who want to be second to men by being like their sidekick despite the appalling idea to a select few who don't believe in it and there are others who believe that its time for them to shine, to take over and dominate the world just as the men did in the past. Honestly in my opinion, there is no point in being in whatever position in the gender role context simply because there will always be someone better and someone weaker than you and it doesnt matter if they are man or woman. But what is important is the LOVE and RESPECT that we as individuals need to supply our fellow people because of the lack that is essential in our society. We all have roles, but we'll never reach those goals if we can't even learn to fix ourselves in the beginning...we are left desolated in the end. This was something my girlfriend reminded me through her actions...her small and simple actions gave smiles to people around her and it rippled across one human being to another. I nearly forgot such an important life lesson... One act of random kindness could change the world.
