
We are all culturally conditioned to see self-pity - and its partner: guilt - as a virtue.
How could we get away from it when not even Jesus Christ could?
Or the other saints we grew up seeing and looking up at at our grandmother's house or those larger-than-life Caucasian statues at old Philippine churches.
Remember the facial expressions on these man-made marbles? They either had an expression of pain, was...