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It was there where he scrutinized what I wrote for him. We were in one of his vans, and he was on his way to one of his meetings (he is still active after retirement, acting in behalf of his wife).

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Other than that, my abnormal schedule (coupled with an inhumane daily commute) doesn’t permit me to live the full life of a writer-researcher, thus adding up to my depressive state.Īnyways, yesterday I received good news from him. And his is no ordinary career as he was not spared from controversy. A politician’s life, after all, is dynamic, even after his career is over. Why the horrible delay? Aside from the above-mentioned personal troubles, one contributor to the delay is that each time I’m done with the biography, Mayor Calex wanted to add more to his personal timeline. It’s been more than 10 years since I started it with Arnold - my golly, more than a decade, and it’s not yet even finished! Even Arnold gave up on it already and left the whole project to my sole care (he has since been holed up in Singapore, together with his family). Going back to the biography (hey, that rhymes!). So many people on social media have been confessing that they are suffering from depression that I suspect many of them are only fishing for sympathy.Īnyway, enough about me.

Depression, I think, has become too stale a word these past few years. I’m always vocal on my regional pain complex syndrome, but not on my depression-induced writer’s block. I’ve been battling a lot of personal issues lately, both health and mental. For a span of four months, I only got to write four pages! That’s how horrible my state of mind has become.

He assigned it to me last April, but I only got to finish it yesterday. I showed to him the final chapter that I added for his biography. Anyway, that’s how it is here in Filipinas: you address ex-politicians by their former designations. Well, he’s no longer mayor here in our place ( his wife is), but we still call him Mayor. I was with Mayor Calixto Catáquiz yesterday.