What can we learn from Jiro Manio's case?

It’s all over in our newsfeed. Jiro Manio, the FAMAS awardee is now homeless and psychologically unstable who is roaming around NAIA 3 asking for food and clothes.

Netizens shared their concerns over the child actor’s situation. His fans went to twitter to urge TV networks to help him. Everyone on social media was shocked.

See? This is how the media world dictate our perception. Jiro’s starred on movies as abused child, happy kid, or an angelic son of a poor family. People knew him through his characters on the big screen without really knowing the true Jiro Manio. His actions off-cam. His struggle while growing up.

He is one of the celebrities who was once a big star, a wealthy icon, who wasn’t able to handle the limelight and asked for the forbidden drugs to back him up. Then, when the smoke went down, he became addicted to it and changed the way he communicates to the world. His cash flows drained while breaking his relationship with his loved ones. His career died naturally.

Drugs is powerful. It can maneuver your brain, your thoughts,your emotions, your actions until you become slaves to its highness. You become irritated and disturbed if you cannot buy a gram of it. You steal money, you break others trust, you kill people.

 Aside from the effects of that white powder, bad parenting takes the lead here. Celebrity child should not be given full access to their earnings. Parents should still act as parents especially in Jiro's case who has been longing for motherly attention. Maybe, his desire to see his lola in Japan urged him to seek temporary residence at NAIA 3. 

To send someone to rehabilitation program takes a lot of energy. Aside from it is expensive, loved ones should always be on their side most of his time to inspire to move forward, to show love, to share good memories.

Letting the victims inside the center can give them temporary cleansing but if they still feel neglected by their own loved ones, the addiction of rebellion remains on their system. They will not be totally free from the bonds he had with drugs addiction.

I am not saying Jiro’s family neglected him, but there must be something that wasn’t right because Jiro was rehabilitated already but why he still feels neglected, not loved, mentally disturbed? Sad, but he wasn’t taken cared of that much.

To wrap it up, there are three main lessons we have learned from Jiro Manio’s case. Media. Family’s relationshiop. Drugs.