Whoever you are who did that horrible crime..may God give you what you truly deserve..Justice in man's law is different from God's justice...You are not a resident of our town and you shouldn't done that...

May you rest in peace Anna Cabatac..
Please pray for the eternal repose of her soul..

what the fuss

Bago ko nilisan ang aking bayang pinagmulan, sobrang tahimik ngayon?ewan koh na!

STRANGERS AGAIN

Looking at you makes me smile

I accidentally slipped on the school ground and a strange kid laughed at me. The smile was lost in my face then turned into a frown. I stood up and walked facing the ground because of embarrassment. Unfortunately, I became a laughing stock of a stranger.

Days passed, I almost forgot what happened when I went to school till someone shouted “lampayatot”. I looked around and found no one except me and that kid, a thin boy, sitting on the tree. Obviously, I was the one his referring to. I shouted blushing in return, “shut up, you butiking pasay, please don’t dare gossip it to the public”. He was my classmate on my kindergarten life and every time our path crossed, we always teased each other.

Time is really fast; we graduated at the same elementary school and both admitted at the same high school. We were never friends until the summer of 2010. He happened to be a participant of the youth camp I organized. He has been so good to my younger brother who has been also a participant. At that moment, I realized that the mean stranger when I was a kid has a good heart, too. He has been one of the people who made the camp experience of my brother wonderful. From that day, I started to ridicule him at times, as he also does.

I got to know him when I became the elected “Little Mayor” of our town for the “Linggo ng Kabataan”, an annual activity prepared for the youth by the SK Chairmen where he was an SK Chairman. I throw a joke on him if he could be my bodyguard; he eagerly agreed and immediately acted as one. Since then we had an extraordinary connection, but of course we still mocked each other. Until, we both feel a different link going on between us. We decided to distance ourselves with each other for the better that became worst, led us to be strangers again.

The sudden end of our friendship was tragic. It made me perfect the “technique of ignorance” for pretending that I didn’t pay attention whenever I saw him and it became easy now that we’re college. I asked myself while in the process of totally trying to forget everything about how we became close, “what good will it gives me, will I benefit from it?”

The incident made me realized that I cannot let my pride over rule me. I tried everything that I can to make him realize that I am really sorry for what I did. I asked help from the people we both know. I made an effort to say good luck for his prelims, to greet him at his birthday and to fix the complications we had.

I tried to change for the better. He, together with my family had been my inspiration, I started to improve myself by changing my physical appearance from a boyish to a firm girl but I cannot stand it. Finding a hard time to act appropriately for my gender, I decided to change my goal. I tried to have study habits for my scholarship and for him to see that I can change for the better. It turned out to be quite good last semester except the two subjects at least I succeed at Math because of him. I am fully determined to pursue my career because of his joke that became a promise. He had done a lot to make me improve myself.

Since then, I never teased people the way I did to him. I easily made friends without being mean to them on the first place. I didn’t give any judgements to the strangers whom I haven’t been with. And I never jump to conclusion about what I feel about other people.

The story, “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” changed the lives, attitude and perspective of the people in the small island for the betterment of everyone. Same as what the incident or maybe the person involved has done to changed my habit, attitude, and action for the improvement of me and my life.

(A paper passed on my English 1 subject under Prof. Ria Florendo)