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Ano po ang kahulugan ng inyong buhay? Ayon sa ama ni Chel Diokno, ito ang magtatalaga ng ating landas. "If death doesn't end life but transforms it, then you must be true to yourself and to your God, and to love and truth, good and beauty, and justice and freedom."
Ito po ang kabuuan ng kaniyang liham. Para na ring sinulat niya ito para sa ating lahat, lalo na sa mga nadidismaya sa eleksyon. Parang ito ang sinasabing "for such a time as this." Basahin po natin:
"Increasingly as you grow older, the values that you have learned from us, your parents, and from your Christian faith will be called into question—by you or by others,” writes the Senator. “Why be honest when it pays to be dishonest? Why be fair to others when they are unfair to you? Why fight for others when they won’t fight for you—or even for themselves? Why think for yourself when it is so much easier to let others think for you? Why decide when it’s less troublesome to obey? Why be good when it seems so much more pleasant to be bad?"
"The answer I think is in what life means to you. If life means having a good time, money, fame, power, security, then you don’t need principles; all you need is techniques. In fact, it’s better not to have principles: they would only get in your way. On the other hand, if life means more than those things, if happiness counts more than a good time, developing your talents more than developing wealth, respect more than fame, right more than power, and peace of soul more than security; if death doesn’t end life but transforms it, then you must be true to yourself and to your God, and to love and truth, good and beauty, and justice and freedom that are His other names and that He has made part of our human nature."
"You will have to decide for yourself, Chel, which of those things life means to you. Neither I nor anyone else can decide this for you. But perhaps this will help you decide: That even those who know they do wrong feel compelled to convince others—and eventually themselves—that they are doing right. So the man of greed often gives generously to charity; the megalomaniac poses as a messiah; the crowd hides his fear under the mask of being realistic; and the guilty wash away they guilt, like Pilate, by washing their hands with the excuse that "it isn't my choice" or "it isn't my job" or I can't do anything about it."
JOSE W. DIOKNO
Letter from prison to his son, Jose Manuel "Chel" Diokno, 1974
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