SHORT CUTS’ early trip yesterday to his hometown can never be forgotten.
He was with his driver and a close-in in that trip.
A matter of only ten minutes from his residence in the city, they passed by two young personalities in their early seventeens or eighteens who were ahead of us. Going on the same direction, they were eventually overtaken because they were on foot.
They were not only holding hands. They seemed to be embracing, but on their sides. The gentleman was at the left of the young lady with his right hand at the waist of the young lady, while the lady’s left arm was very close to the gentlemen’s armpit.
To Short Cuts the picture speaks of an early morning romance!
Or, a continuing romance?
Be that as it may, that was what Short Cuts and his companions saw that early morning of yesterday.
To our brother Pilipinos, specially our Boholano brothers and sisters, was that scenario as seen by Short Cuts and his two companions common or easily seen by us on the streets?
Short Cuts is just asking!
But, it is a fact that years back – in the early 50’s up to the latter part of 70’s – the scenario that Short Cuts and his companions saw that early morning of yetserday could rarely or hardly be seen. Young gentlemen and ladies in those days would hardly expose in public feelings of romance.
They were just too timid and shy.
However, the influx of many foreigners to our shores greatly changed the picture. With their guts in kissing – even on the streets that was never seen before by Filipinos – not only “terrified” our Filipino brothers and sisters. Disregarding shame and even religion as pure catholics, they just followed.
Therefore, if today, one witnesses a Filipino gentleman and a lady kissing each other, everyone may just treat it as an ordinary affair.
And, this is the culture of imitation, pure and simple.
But, does this culture, as imitated squarely coincide with a traditionally Roman Catholic Filipinos?
