Monday, December 24, 2018

THESIS, ANTITHESIS, SYNTHESIS

THESIS is a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved (Google).

Bulan's college thesis is on stories of vulnerability and resilience focusing on the narratives of older women in disaster, and I was pretty sure he can handle the research but the emails he sent to his proposed study sites remained unresponded so decided to step in.

As such, I had a city mayor fetch his CDRRMO who was instructed to assist Bulan, re-introduced him to his Ninong who happened to be the CDRRMO of another city, facilitated his access to the data base of an MDRRMO through a kumpadre, and sought a fraternity brother who accompanied us to the office of another CDRRMO.   


ANTITHESIS is the contrast or opposition between two things (Google).

This is best illustrated by one particular program of a company who projects itself to be a caring rights-based organization --- a program whose aim is to "transform" but afflicted with a confused and chaotic management system that indeed transform simple transactions into a journey through the gates of hell where caring does not exist and self-esteem gets violated.

Another example is the holiday season turning out to be a hospital vacation with Bulan ending up at the Premier Medical Center for an emergency laparoscopic cholecystectomy that razed our wallets and savings.       


SYNTHESIS is the combination of ideas to form a theory or system (Google).

But before the gates of hell and the surgery, Bulan came home on a Sunday to pre-test his college thesis during the holdays but it was not until Wednesday that were able to really come together for our first serious family dinner at Thyme Street in a long while, and I was able to ride my bike from Monday to Friday, alternately with Bulan and Balong, which is as good as it can get...   


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