Trixie Cruz: Apocalypse

It was a nightmare, I dreamed that I woke up to find out that I had been dreaming all along. Had I fallen out of the Matrix? No, I said to myself, this is post-EDSA2.

Trixie Cruz: New Uncertainties

By Rose Beatrix C. Angeles (Trixie Cruz-Angeles)

INQUIRER.net

First Posted January 03, 2008

“Mr. E: There are very few stable futures, boy. The way my father told it to me, the future is a series of infinitely branching possibilities. When we walk it, we walk down the most probable paths, those with the greatest likelihood of occurring. But nothing in the future is definite. Some are periods of great flux — the next hundred years or so are a wash of conflicting events. Others are relatively stable — so that almost any path you walk takes you to the same universe.”

- The Books of Magic By Neil Gaiman

Each New Year, by tradition, is filled with hope. By the grace of God and through the solar calendar, we are given the opportunity to begin anew every twelve months. In the same way that the earth goes through its life cycles of birth, flowering, fertility and death, we are taken along for the ride and are given this small gift of renewal.

True we are not phoenixes. We don’t actually die. But as we are told in Catholic doctrine, we can be born again in spirit. Interestingly, in Babylon, the New Year was celebrated around the time of the vernal equinox , To this day we celebrate it in Christendom as Easter, Pasko ng Bagong Buhay in Filipino, when we celebrate Christ’s conquest of death, and when we ourselves are renewed in spirit.