#5 My Thoughts

In the word they call “peace”, how much can you sacrifice to achieve it? The peace can easily be said but difficult to do. What would you give in? Happiness for you own or sacrifice something from yourself for the good of others?

                Ming-ming, the drama that I watched depicts on how the early generation of Muslims that settled here in the Philippines on managing peace between tribe. Redo is a common thing back in the days and their clan has a redo with another clan. Redo is committing revenge to a family or clan. The saying “an eye for an eye” relates to it. In the drama Ming-ming, Aye, as I remembered their names, was chosen in their clan to have an arranged marriage to another man of their rival clan to preserve peace between clan. But Aye didn’t want the man engaged to her because she described him as “a man with distorted face”. For a month, Aye was sent somewhere in Luzon to study there but that opportunity of studying there for knowledge was not been followed. She was just wasting time and money. She committed a relationship that wasn’t for her. Every person in this world has the right to make their own decision. Making the best judgment out of all the choices but then, this was not the situation in the past. The decision of the elders will always be followed and respected. For all these decision can benefit the entire clan. It could gain glory and prosperity for both clans if there is an agreement between the two. Like in the case of Aye, she will be married to another man, not only for the benefit of peace but with the wealth. After Ar and Pi knew what Aye was doing while being sent away to study, Aye was demanded to go home to their province and stay there. Yet it was too late for them to take the action because Aye was already committed a sin, a child was already developing in her womb. Aye was pregnant but with a wrong father. In order to prevent in a war that might wage, Ar and Pi hid it as a secret and make everyone believes that the father of Aye’s child is of the other clans’ man. However, Aye would still prefer being with the true father of her child than with the other man that she was been arranged to marry. She thought selfishly that she didn’t consider in her actions the consequences that might arose. Many people have this trait, always rushing decisions that thinking is not a part of the process anymore and only considering the advantages can bring to him. Time have past and the identity of Aye’s child named Ming-Ming was been discovered. Things have been revealed. Ming-ming was sent away from her mother and imprisoned. Ming-ming being felt that she was all alone, committed a suicide.

In the decisions we make in our life, there will always be a corresponding reaction to it. We must take responsibility of our actions and make a stand of it.