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Wednesday, January 30, 2013

BE COOL


BE COOL

I remember my old departed friend, the fake Frenchman Monsieur Javelona who used to quip he belonged to the so called Temperamental Law Firm. What he meant was his partners were more on temper than mental.

Temperament runs thick in my blood. I must have gotten it from my parents who had short fuses. This malady often attacks me.

One day, tension was high as my voice, while I was stressing a point. There was no anger in it but assiduousness. Then  my daughter said, “Tatay, Be Cool.” 

Like cold water dousing burning coals, the hot air was blown by the wind of winsomeness. I wish I could always be cool, quiet, calm and composed.

The wise cleric J. Maurus aptly observed that the mind will never function when it is super hot, only when it is cool and composed.

“Be Cool!”

Well I’m cool for now. No big deal.

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