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Mental Health is Everything

By Gil delos Santos

Hanging around the couch to watch TV is not a usual occurrence how my weekends are spent. I should have been somewhere else hiking and camping. But for a couple of reasons I needed to stay home, it did happen today. I've Feasted with youtube videos until coming across with talent show auditions having obnoxious contestants who cannot take the judges' critique and cannot shut their mouth in defense which security needed to come into the scene to intervene and remove them from the stage.

We sometimes get annoyed and get angry when people get too self-defensive and rude up to becoming aggressive in trying to make a point to insist for what they believe is right. It reminds me of some people but I cannot remove them from their temporal spot like how the show owners can. Di ako dapat pa apicto lol. This Agitated people do not have awareness anymore with the boundaries of decency, reality, and rationale when summoned by triggering situations. They look funny and entertaining from our normal point of view if looking from outside. What we don't usually see is the thing more serious than just judging these try-hards.

We easily get angry if we are the opposite person being provoked by this unconscious pre-psychopathic stage. That's human nature. However when we return what they give, it's like we gladly welcome ourselves into their world. When we indulge in exchanges with them, we become one of them. It should not be the case. We should rather pull them out of that world and show them compassion and kindness but by not taking away the realities. They only need a gentle listener.

Listening is good but a band aid remedy for unstable mental health in irony. Rather bridge them to professional help.

In another world, if you're at the airport feeling angry because your Boracay QR has not arrived yet and there's no available number to call for follow up, it's ok...it's not you. Get angry, you're sane. Just give them compassion as they need professional help too to settle their internal issues.

Photo:
Taken in Siargao during my last visit matagal na lol. Buti pa dun madali e-health pass. Dun muna kayo habang inaayos pa sistema dito...sistema ng pag iisip. Total ayaw naman pag bigyan ng IATF umusad ang Boracay. Sa iba pwede ang saliva RT-PCR ng Red Cross, dito hindi. Magic! Ewan ba't ayaw ng magandang dilag ng DOT sa Boracay. 

Keep your mental health sharp, that way - we can battle everydaylife prejudices...not necessary to be in constant winning side but to give life a good fight.

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