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BY SONIA D. DAQUILA
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Saturday, January 7, 2017
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JANUS is the name of the Roman god who has two faces. One of these faces is directed to the past, and the other, the future.
Janus holds two keys – one for the door to the past and the other to the door of the future.
Obviously, the name Janus relates to the name of the new month at the start of every year, January. Dec. 31 closes the previous year and Jan. 1 opens the new year.
Janus tells us how important the past is and he urges us to review what transpired then, to assess the past events and draw out lessons from where we failed, and remember those lessons which made us succeed.
The other face encourages us to look forward to the future, to pray, to hope and make our dreams happen. Even in the life of a nation, history is essential for a country to move forward.
Personally, I would prefer a three-headed Janus. Looking at the hindsight, as the famous nationalist Renato Constantino calls it, the past as the hindsight and the future, the foresight. With these two, I would gladly add the insight – looking into ourselves and our country inwardly. Do not repeat our grievous errors anymore and bear in mind that only dogs go back to their vomit and eat it again.
Assess our strength, firm ourselves up from where we are weak, enhance where we are strong, locate where we find ourselves now and chart the future.
So many resolutions are made at the end of the year but the will in us decides to make things happen. We fill our tables with fruits, sweets and glutinous food for us to stick together, to become progressive and happy. These are common practices all over the world but we cannot leave things or events to happen by chance. We make them happen. This part of our culture lives on but Janus is there — the month of January and all throughout the year.
Add the third face to Janus’ two faces. Get the most from our hindsight, insight and foresight as individuals and as a people.
Happy New Year! (delsocorrodaquila@gmail.com/PN)
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