BAD TRIP 8: From a Weary Window I Wept...
The last tricycle passed five minutes ago. Nothing else has passed since then…Time passes ever so slowly in places like Eastern Samar, where the ticking of the clock is almost obscene. People are never in a hurry to do anything, seemingly content to go through life on all fours, crawling along at a snail’s pace.
It pains me to see so much poverty in one place… so widespread it slaps you in the face. And this is happening amidst so much bounty – seas teeming with marine life and fertile lands begging to be tilled. Yet most of the people are dirt-poor… living in dilapidated nipa huts, sitting about on the front porch all day, idly watching life pass them by.
Perhaps that is why they prefer to just grow coconuts – they just wait to harvest the nuts, allowing plenty of time to sit on the front porch.
(Sigh)
posted by Miki at
7:06 AM
18 Comments:
i can feel the pain...don't give up, you are blessed to be in a position to do something about it. i am not, and i envy you for that.
yup, padayon lang gyud bai heheh
sometimes, though, i get the existential willies and ask myself whether or not i'm making any difference at all...
Ah...much more pictures of suffering and unspeakable poverty out there.
U in development work miks? Mind linking up?
unsa diay ng imong job kuya? development churva?
hi bananas and kends!
yup, i am in development work churva, bwehehehe. been at it for the longest time and i don't really know why i stayed.
bananas, you're a hoot! please do, link me up. :)
@miks: yeah, will link u up? wait, me a hoot? whatever that means, thank you miks.
neways, also in development work here. well, at least that's what i consider my work now is.
mine is more on advocacy--environment and stuff. this is my regular job although still doing other things in between.
hiya bananas!
i was just saying you're cool. and funny. heheh.
bananas and kends:
yup, i am in development churva, bwehehehe. and we also carry environmental advocacies, primarily in the area of community-based natural resources management.
hi kuya miki!!! labay lang ko... hihihihi!!!
musta man ka?
your number 1 fan,
jory
ey jors!!!
musta na man ka dinhas nyuyowk?
amping pirmi! :)
wow!
*hands down for kuya miki*
kuya miks,
tugnaw na kaayo diri!!!! as in!!!! lami unta naay mogakos pero nabilin man diha... hahahaha!!!
jors,
moapas man kaha, wahehehe
kends,
your time will come... nauna lang kami, heheh. pretty soon, you'll be right out there making your contribution.
hi tito miki!
as much as I'd like to help the poor, these people aren't helping themselves. :-(
hi kars!
uuuy, musta na ka dinhas davao? pila na ka uyab ang imohang naihap? bwehehehe
nga pala, naimpluwensyahan ka na ni shawts? sa tagay ba, heheh
dili jud ko nila mapainon, ako lang silang tan-awon hangtod mga hubog. hehehehe.
mao na ni akong naihap na uyab:
000,000,000
huhuhu...
kars,
hmmm... sigi japun imo pa-slim sa bleep bleep? wahehehehe
inum pod ka panagsa oi. one tagay at a time, heheh
ang uyab? moabot ra na. but keep your eyes open, too. ;p
TEARY EYED GID ANG. BWISIT ABING NINA RA HO..HATAMAAN GID ANANG EMOTE SA PAGBASA SA DAYANG ENTRY.
hala may taga-akean nga hasaag iya hehehe. saeamat sa pagduaw
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