Confidently
Beautiful with a Heart: Squeezing Moral Sweetness from a Bitter Controversy
Miss Universe 2015 coronation moment remains abuzz over
the social media because of a mistaken crowning. Mr. Steve Harvey, the pageant
host, announced Miss Colombia the new Miss Universe 2015, and after 4 minutes,
he went back to the center stage to apologize and to proclaim the latter
candidate the new Miss Universe 2015 instead.
After taking the lavish and prestigious crown from Miss
Colombia’s head by the former Miss Universe 2014 and putting it onto the head
of Miss Philippines, other contestants thronged their bets: most of the Latinas
sorrounded and comforted the 1st runner-up while most of the Asians approached
and cheered for Miss Philippines’ victory.
As the controversial moment of the Miss Universe pageant
was transpiring, peoples across the globe had quickly posted, like a flush of
thunder, their negative reactions over the social media. There were emotions of
anger directed to the host for his failure to do his job. Others bashed the
Miss Universe organization for its failure to halt the explosion of
controversy. Supporters of Miss Colombia attacked Miss Philippines with
belittlement and hurling her with statements like “she is not beautiful, she is
not sexy and so she does not deserve the crown”. Fighting back, countrymen of
Miss Philippines drenched her bashers with acidulous utterances telling Miss
Colombia “she looks like a gay, she is rude, she cannot accept defeat and so
she deserves being a loser”. As the clash between supporters of the candidates
shoved into a firm friction, a sudden spark of gargantuan fire devoured the
peoples’ moral ascendacies and self-control. Every ego-slap fired against the
other elicited beligerent responses, to the extent that the temperature had
reached the boiling point. The verbal tussles went beyond who is the true
winner; it went to the summit of racism, expletives and supreme boast of sheer
superiority and domination of race. a petty bitterness springs off moral and
identity derogation. All these are what we get from a revelation of truth after
a mistake.
Looking into the implicit sense of the issue, there are
lessons we can get from the incident. One
obvious lesson is acceptance of defeat. One must remember that defeat is not
the end of everything; it is just a mark that he has had another worthwhile
challenging experience from which he can toughen-up himself in preparation for
more challenging adversities in life. Another is, being grounded morally. Each
person should bear in mind that losing may be hurting, but it is unhealthy to
unleash negative emotions to inflict pain upon others because an offensive
responses bring nothing but chasm and dichotomy. Instead of avenging as hard as
one has been hurt, remain calm, respectful and ethical because the act of doing
good will always yield moral maturity, harmonious relationship and high regards
to one’s professionalism and diplomacy. Third is, being careful and
accountable. If one is given a task to fulfill, he should give his hundred
percent best in accomplishing it. Complacency should not have a room in his head
so that he checks every now and then if he is doing the right thing. In other
form of perspective, reading using one’s
eyes more than what idiots need to before he speak up does not make him less of
who he is. He should care less of what people think of his frequent gleaning on
references; He should rather care about telling the right thing without any
regret at the end. Fourth is, admission of fault. It may be difficult to admit
mistake because of shame it gives, but that is a better decision to take because
it onlymeans that he is human born to make mistakes.. Another is, mistakes do
happen, every person is born to commit them anyways. If one is to be a victim of a bitter fate, he naturally
feels the hurt. But he should not sensationalize it with exagerated emotions
and then propagates and spreads the exasperation to the rest of his
symphatizers. Remember that it is selfishness to share the damage to the rest
of the people who support a victim of shame; but it is bravery and heroism to
take it alone with grace and glamour especially if it happens within the
witness of millions of eyes. Moreoever, truth really hurts, but it hurts even
more if its secrecy hunts the conscience for the rest of its silence; hence one
must be brave to take the flog of mistakes because by the time his wounds heal,
he will live by night and day without nightmares. In addition, beauty is
subjective. Whoever is priveledged to judge it, people should respect his view
the way every person wanted his/hers to be respected. Finally, the issue may
have brought ugly bitterness to many palatabilities, but if we masticate every
fiber of the whole story, we can squeeze sweet lessons that can make us confidently
beautiful with a heart.
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