Just one of those slew of writing assignments that pays P5 a word, three-minute script in which a second eats up two words; I had the narrative down to two minutes and 50 seconds flat, leanest choice of words—the terse documentary had fledgling lawmaker Grace Poe speaking her mind on one of her legislative advocacies, mental health.

No big deal there. Not unless you’re into the sacred oriental classics like Dhammapada, literally “statements of principle” of the Gautama Buddha that posits, “Everything has mind in the lead, has mind in the forefront, is made by mind. If one speaks or acts with a corrupt mind, misery will follow, as the wheel of the cart follows the foot of the ox.”

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