My Random Thoughts on the #AMALAYER Incident

I opened my Twitter last night and my feed was flooded with #Amalayer tweets.  At first I have no idea on what was it all about.  I went trhough the hashtagged tweets and saw the video (which I eventually found out went viral on Facebook) of a confrontation from an outraged girl and an LRT lady guard.  Well I don’t have to tell the whole story because I assumed you guys were able to watch the clip.  I went through more of the tweets and people were able to put out jokes out of the incident.  Pinakabumenta sakin yung AMADOVE GIRL and ALABET.  I laughed on it for some time and even reposted it on my Facebook account.  Later I realized that I should’ve kept it to myself.  Gaya ng girl na nasa video, may mga point sa buhay natin na sa height ng emosyon natin, nakakagawa tayo ng mga bagay na later on marerealize natin na pagsisisihan natin sa bandang huli.  In my case, reposting a joke that I found on the internet because I really found it funny, not knowing that I’m making fun out of her expense.

People also made fun of her English grammar.  Well, I think it’s part of our Filipino nature na mang-correct ng grammar ng iba, even others do it like they are proofreaders or editors. 

Let me share to you my thoughts on this incident:

1.       On the part of the uploader

• Iba iba ang motibo ng mga taong nasa social networking sa pagpopost ng mga content sa feed nila.  Some do it out of concern, some out of fun, some out of boredom.  Bear in mind that anything that we post on our feed is within the scope of our responsibility.  I found on a Yahoo article that the uploader did not know the whole story but a bystander told him na sinita ng guard yung babae kasi mali yung way na pinasukan niya na entrance.  But I saw on some other article in Yahoo that the girl did not go through proper security inspection on the station which caused the confrontation.  I learned from the FB video that it was posted because he was a Bayan Patroller.  Bottomline---we should take full assumption of responsibility on everything posted on our social network feed.  We should make sure that we can answer all questions entailed on what we post.  And as much as possible, we should bring up things through the proper and right avenue.  May iba kasing bagay na hindi dapat idinadaan sa social networking.  Let us be responsible and cautious.

2.       On the part of the lady guard

             

•      I don’t know the guard personally, so I don’t have the right to judge her.  But what I can say is that, minsan sa trabaho natin, pag matino nating ginagawa ang mga trabaho natin, minsan doon pa tayo napapasama.  Sa totoo lang, pag pumapasok ako sa mga malls at public places na may guard inspection, mas gusto ko na kinakalkal nila ang bag ko at iniinspect talaga kaysa dudutdutan lang nila ng stick yung bag ko tapos ok na.  It’s their duty to ensure the safety of the public.  Pero minsan, naiisip ko din na kung ganun ang gagawin nila the whole day, nakakapagod din.  Tapos hindi naman lahat maiintindihan na kaya nila yun ginagawa para din naman sa kapakanan ng publiko.  Iniisip ko na minsan hindi naman ganun kalakihan ang compensation nila para sa ganung trabaho.  Pero naisip ko na naman, na wala namang trabahong madali.  We should exert effort to earn income.  Mapa negosyo man o bilang empleyado—ganun talaga.  Mahirap kumita ng pera.  Lalo na sa lipunan ng kagaya ng sa atin.  Kaya ang masasabi ko lang, let’s give our best on everything that we are doing. As long as wala tayong nasasagasaang tao, at tama ang ginagawa natin sa trabaho, huwag tayong mag alala.  Everything that we are doing entails a result, either a reward or a consequence.  It all depends on how we do things.

3.       On Paula Salvosa

•      Siya yung tinatawag na Amalayer girl.  Nung nakita ko yung video, sa totoo lang, wala akong masabi.  Andaming pumasok sa isip ko.  Baka naman may pinagdadaanan siya tapos natrigger lang nung ginawa ng guard.  O kaya naman masama ang gising. O mainit ang ulo.  Lahat ng tao may pinagdadaanan, but that should not give us the license to be “out of ourselves” at the peak of what we are going through.  We should learn to control ourselves.  Huwag din nating ibunton sa ibang tao yung nararamdaman nating bad vibes.  Kasi hindi naman nila alam ang pinagdadaanan mo, and who knows, baka mas matindi pa nga yung pinagdadaanan nila kaysa sayo.  I don’t know, what the girl did is just not right.  Maybe may katwiran nga, but it went through the wrong avenue.  Parang hindi appropriate to become like that in a public place.  Such act should have been done privately. Haha, I mean, siguro dapat silang dalawa nalang yung nag usap through the LRT admin office.  I don’t know.  The bottomline—let us not act right away on things in the height of our emotions—either sa sobrang saya, lungkot, or pagkagalit.  Learn to control your emotions.  Rule over it.  Don’t let it rule over you.  Hindi mo pag aari ang mundo.  May iba ka pang kasamang tao ditto na kailangan mo ding pakisamahan.  Just enjoy life.

4.  To us

• I admit, I did something wrong by making fun of it.  Eh sa nakakatawa eh.  But somehow I realized I had my own way of making a fool out of her.  Pero seeing people bashing her and making strongly bad remarks on what she did is just so wrong.  This incident I believe can traumatize her.  We can say she deserves that kasi that’s part of the consequences on what she did in public.  But this should not give us the right to humiliate and judge her.  It’s normal to say, “ay, di dapat ganon, she should’ve act right on the situation”, and go on with our lives.  I believe her experience is a lesson to all of us, that in everything that we do, act or say, we are accountable to it.  At sa pagka high level ng technology ngayon, we are not aware that there is someone watching us.  We are not sure of that.  But above all, there is Someone up there that knows our every move, every thought, every act, every word that we say (even the unspoken ones).  And that is God.

So much with the #AMALAYER trend. Sana makamove on na tayong lahat.

1 Samuel 2:3 (NIV)

“Do not keep talking so proudly or let your mouth speak such arrogance, for the LORD is a God who knows, and by him deeds are weighed.”