MANNY PACQUIAO?S TRUE CALLING
By Reni M. Valenzuela
PhilBoxing.com
Sat, 20 Dec 2014
?Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your purpose.? ? Aristotle
Former Senator Rene A.V. Saguisag is becoming a friend through email exchanges since he positively reacted to my piece concerning Pacman, published in Philippine Daily Inquirer several months ago. Now it?s my turn to agree with what he said in the same opinion section of PDI today (12/20/14), ?The House (of Representatives) should consider suspending (Congressman) Pacquiao up to the end of his term as he treats House work as a hobby or sideline.? Perfect.
Contradiction comes easy to the confused. And boxing, as in politics, is full of it.
?I do have one specific goal and that is to give the boxing fans the fight (Mayweather vs. Pacquiao) they have always asked for,? Pacquiao assures recently. Yet beneath such flattering declaration, he surrenders himself subservient to the very biggies who are among the biggest obstacles to The Fight.
Pacquiao declaims a rhetoric, ?It is impossible to negotiate when you are the only one sitting at the table,? yet the table where he is seated is owned by promoter Bob Arum and Adviser Michael Koncz. The Filipino boxing star says he believes ?good faith negotiations? could produce the Mega Bout, yet his handlers seem to have only their own pockets to think of.
The sport is deeply into paradox.
Floyd says he?s the best, yet he fears his fellow best. He presents himself to the public like he breathes and wakes up for money, yet he dodges the fight that would bring him the biggest money, not realizing until now that the same fight would paint him the biggest coward if he continues running away from it.
Further, Pacquiao explains in the same speech: ?As I have said before, boxing is my passion and public service is my calling,? yet he sidetracks himself from his passion by being into a ?calling? he is not called to do.
What Pacquiao has in politics is ambition, not calling. And it can be judged by his performance and attitude in the Lower House, and by being consistently the Top Absentee in the said Chamber as a Representative of his native Sarangani from the time he was first elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2013.
A true friend is one who lets you see what is ahead of blind curves in a zigzag road.
Politics is indeed public service wherein ?politicians? have no place. I mean those whose focus are eternally occupied and pre-occupied in just wanting to get elected and re-elected even right after having just got elected.
By the way, the sport?s icon is now a transformed man, and this I know for sure. The Lord Jesus Christ changed his life dramatically. Thus Pacquiao carries and preaches the Holy Bible without shame and with effectiveness anywhere he goes. And this also I know for sure to be a CLEAR CALLING from God for him to do and continue being passionate about till Rapture - or till the end time.
Be on track.
renimvalenzuela@yahoo.com
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