Kids these days.

This is annoying.

Just let me rant about this because I seriously cannot contain the stupidity of some people. Especially of those who overreact to things they do not fully comprehend.

The other night I tweeted about how annoyed I was at Mike Enriquez’s constant stuttering and slurring on 24 Oras especially during a time when he was reporting about the tragedy in Japan.

I indicated “live broadcast” because we all know he’s been very careless with his reporting on 24 Oras—often garbling words or names, sometimes even choking then uttering the now famous “Excuse me po!”—but otherwise efficient in his taped programs and interviews.

We all know how annoying he could get and I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who has found themselves at wit’s end with his constant stammering. And what do you know, someone actually saw my tweet and responded in agreement.

I do not know who he/she is and how he/she stumbled upon my tweet because I obviously did not put any hash tags with it. It was interesting, though, but I did not bother replying since I really do not know him/her and felt like I already made my point and have proven to myself that I wasn’t alone.

Little did I know that this had already sparked an argument with another random person who tweeted:

I found out about this only after I checked my Twitter client a few hours ago, which showed a random reply to me:

Again, I do not know who this other person is. But obviously she disagrees. I saw that she has other replies to people who were also tweeting about their own annoyances with Mike Enriquez, an even better proof that I wasn’t the only one ranting about him.

I was immediately annoyed at her (assuming she’s a girl) and her mindless response.

To my irritation, I replied:

Which also applies to almost any job on the face of the earth. I have always hated people who has the same mentality as “Jemeleen”. I believe we’re all good at something, and when we’re making a living out of it—especially when it concerns a lot of people and when in the public eye—people expect us to be the best at it. Because if not then the word excellence should not have been invented.

I, myself, am aware and careful of the way I do my work. I know that when people ask me to design something for them—be it a logo, a brochure, a flyer or a goddamn shirt patch—they expect me to execute designs the best way I know how. And even if they don’t, I’m already cursed with the obsession of achieving a high standard I’ve put upon myself. As a result, I am fully aware of when I end up with mediocre to utterly commonplace works, and you could expect that I would be the first person to bash those works. Because I immediately know if I’m not putting in enough thought and effort to my designs. When that happens, I attach an apology to my design studies, expecting requests for revisions from my clients.

So the logic that “Jemeleen” and all these people have—that people are thinking too highly of themselves when they complain about mediocre job performances of others and that they might as well take their place since they think they can do better—is downright stupid. In fact, I don’t even think we can call that logic at all.

To put it simply (for fear that “Jemeleen” and her people might find it hard to understand): When people like me complain about other people doing their job half-assed, we’re saying, “You know you could do better than that!” and not, “We’re more deserving of your job because we know we can do so much better.”

Capisce?

And in all fairness to Mike Enriquez, he is indeed a credible broadcast journalist. I don’t remember him being like this during the early years of Saksi, when it was still GMA7’s evening news program. The slurring and stuttering is a recent annoyance that, I believe, is getting worse. Seriously, I think he needs to get himself checked because it might be a sign of some neurological problem.

(Watch this video to understand what I’m talking about)

Anyway, sorry if this post went on and on. But if you’ve managed to get this far, then thank you for reading and hopefully you get my point.

I am just tired of people overreacting without thinking first.

That is partly why I deactivated my Facebook account. Because these people, for some reason, have an absurd way of understanding my thoughts.

It’s their fault that I consider them stupid.

Oh and, by the way, please consider deleting your Twitter accounts if your only purpose is to follow celebrities and retweet them till kingdom come. Do yourselves a favor, get a life.