It is horrible. I’m not a parent but I’d start to cry every time I’d imagine something bad happening to loved ones. And I lost my Dad who was battling it out in the hospital. I still couldn’t accept that after almost a year. Death has a way of saying it really is final.. The End.
So I couldn’t imagine how Atio’s parents are coping with their son’s death from UST Law Aegis Juris Fraternity Hazing. Atio was hurt and then killed. Let the schooled, the educated, and/or Lawyers say what they want to say about hazing and/or frat traditions but if you enjoy hitting someone, a living being, a person, even for a bit, then there is something really wrong about you. And you shouldn’t be with free people.
And now, the perpetrators as well as those protecting the perpetrators are trying to cover up their involvement in their crime. They had a laughable but also equally annoying and anger-inducing Facebook chat strategizing how they’d cover up the truth. Man, they talk stupid! How could they be morons? They’re lawyers and law students right? Facebook? Facebook chat? Online? Where chats can be screen-grabbed? And using their own accounts? And don’t get me started about their kita-kita (group meeting)! A hotel?!? Why not the BGC field? Luneta park? They weren’t concerned! They’re not careful ‘cause they think they could get away with it. They think that co-members, their brads are cushion to this mess and they think they could get away with this with their combines powers and connections (only power and connections ‘cause y’all don’t have brains! And of course no heart, no soul).
Not one soul has been remorseful to do the right thing, oh yeah, ‘cause they’re soulless. It’s not just sad but it’s wrong, horrifying and sickening!
These UST Law students, their esteemed alumni and parents are clearly in the illusion that trying to get away from this will free them from Atio being ingrained from their minds. Nothing will ever work people. Atio lives rent-free in your minds forever. (I wrote UST Law students ‘cause y’all know who went to that hazing rite. Someone’s a best friend, a girlfriend, the person beside Atio, some people saw something of course! The Philippines is cramped!)
And you will never truly be happy or successful murderers, conspirators. This will eat you.. This will cost you dearly.
Would doing the right thing benefit you? Of course it wouldn’t, silly a**fvcking a**holes, but it would help ease your burdens. And it’d give Atio’s parents a mountain of help. You know, so even though they had lost their boy, who they raised because they loved him and they wanted him to be happy, though you killed that boy, because you’re all pretty fvcking stupid, because you couldn’t frigging stop hitting, and you couldn’t bring him to the nearest hospital, and no one who passed UST Law entrance interviews and exams know CPR or any kind of first aid, even though all that, at least his parents know how their kid died. Yeah, no turning back, damage has been done, dreams shattered to pieces, but hey at least decency surmounted your ego and your placed importance on your life. You took another person’s life, fvcking own up.
This will be forever thrown in your faces. Oh I hope at every turn this would scream at you. I hope when you’re late to a date, your significant other would say you were because you weren’t done hitting Atio.
And Miriam Defensor-Santiago’s popularized phrase – I invoke my right against self-incrimination – won’t help you. The truth will come out.
If I feel this way and I’m in no way related to their family or even remotely their circle of friends, how d’you think they feel? If you’re okay with all of the hooha surrounding this, again, an alarm bell. Please have yourself checked out. Just say the truth. The world will thank you. Not forgive you, don’t count on that. You owe it to your conscience.
photo credit: from rmn.ph through google images
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