I remember a Tuesday afternoon where i was laughing at this certain priest who, during the homily, lectured about global warming and everything that comes with it. and to tell you, i wasn't laughing for nothing! he brought cans, dude! empty coke cans and water bottles to show the difference of drinking from those to God-knows-where! and, oh! how could i ever forget how he stated the effects of eating burgers. okay, so i might laugh at these things. but what has happened in the Philippines brought me to somewhere i never thought i would be in. and it all makes sense now.
he was actually making sense...
the Saturday the typhoon blew Luzon away, i was out of the house, so basically i didn't have any idea about what was happening until the next day i woke up and watched television. all i knew before was that there was a typhoon and as an effect, we, here in Mindanao, also experienced heavy rainfalls. but not as heavy as what Luzon had...
watching the news brought me to utter shock and disbelief. okay, so i was about to believe everything, until i saw a video clip about this certain TV star on the roof due to the flood water rising. OH MY. that worse? then everything followed--from celebs asking the companies they are endorsing for donations, to death tolls rising, to missing people being found dead, to families volunteering for packing relief goods. right then i knew it was all true. and together, the Philippines faced another calamity that once again proved the spirit of bayanihan in the truest sense of Filipino blood.
the calamity might probably opened our eyes to facts we thought of as fabrications, to possibilities we never expected. but more than that, it has left a big slap on our faces with the question: 'are we part of this?'
