sad song

9.29.15

ATTENTION - a grievous need of a human being to prove his own existence and more, his essence.

Simply, it is a great need and a responsibility as well, to acquire and to bestow. It could be a venom of the past or a potion of the future. 

Everyday, different people of different personalities consecutively tells me to wear this, to eat that, to buy this, to have that; drowning me with the overwhelming thoughts of should and should not, and each of us live this way; maybe partly for some. Thus, even technology has the power of dictatorship over human reason.

We are as much as a bamboo leaf that continuously floats to the direction of the wind without listening to its own branch; it goes wildly as each blow claims the waving.

I want to share a story from the parcels of my past that happened long ago, when the trees are still young and the birds still undoubtedly sing not to seek but to amuse.

I was 10 that time and was slightly oriented of what money is to the world. It was my 24th time to ride a jeepney. That cold adventurous