Showing posts with label disappointment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disappointment. Show all posts

Sunday, January 25, 2009

True friends are like needles in the haystack....




[...in the picture, me with one of my very few-true-friends for life who'll be there for me during my highs and my lows...one who I treat as a valuable treasure and Godsent.]

A friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out.
~Grace Pulpit

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The title of this post should have been a Twinge of Disappointment, but I decided to change it to a much lighter and much positive one....since I don't want to be in a negative mode, just by losing one. Friends really come and go just like panning gold. It will take some times, to winnow who are gold and who are just to be considered as silt.
There are so many questions in our lives. Some were too lucky to be answered but there are those left unanswered. Something for something when it comes to reality. They say that nothing in life was free...quid pro quo as they say. Sa hirap ng buhay ngayon swerte ng may tumulong sa'yo in terms of money. Ako I have so much regards to people who in one way or another knows the word gratitude. And I have no respect for people who prove himself extremely false and ingrateful, thankless and unappreciative of the help extended to him. There are some who only wants to ingratiate himself to gain favor...can we call that conning, well I don't know what to call it.
But in any friendship I think it's a natural reaction to help someone who's in need specially if the person we mention here is your friend. But the big question here is...if that person we are saying is good enough to deserve such concern. I'm not in an advocacy of altruism since I am only an ordinary citizen and of minimal capacity or resources. If I am indeed rich or very rich I can do that, but man...
In this cruel world or it is not nice to say that, but let me re-phrase it, I should say...in this difficult time we all have a lot of personal concern. And who doesn't anyway? I personally do not wait for anything reciprocal...but at least one should be very kind to look at the gesture in a different view other than being so selfishly unmindful of the concern given to one in the purpose of helping. Well what can you expect this days. Some uses something to con someone. And if one will not be wary about how this is usually done, you'll be trapped easily. For me I call them the F's and J's in the sea. The flotsam and the jetsam...if you know what I mean. This person I consider a scut one. And that person also is always testing my endurance to understand her eccentricity of her confusion and always putting my patience to a test. In short, she is something like a good example of a fair-weather friend indeed. My goodness I did not learn from my previous mistakes. I knew from the start that it was coming, I knew it from the start...and for the nth time she's acting the same way again and again. Eh hindi na siya talaga magbabago, yun na siya talaga. I wish I never have had met her kind. Kaya just like a sinking ship, she should be jetissoned or be thrown overboard, something to make my survival easier and possible. May tao kasing mabigat dalhin, figuratively jinx. Like I always say, in friendship there should be a two-way lane, if you're the only one moving against the flow then you'll probably on one way lane...and obviously you're on the wrong track. So be very careful...getting off on the wrong foot!

Now, I can drop the subject!


Tuesday, November 11, 2008

In luck and pushing one's luck!


A friend of mine told me that what happened to my son was really regarded as bad luck...I said no...I see it as pure luck indeed! My son was so lucky enough to leave the scene unscathed. That's very important. I don't know how to deal with it if they had harmed him physically. I will curse them til they die. They are the real menace of our society. Very dangerous and very annoying threat to everybody's lives. We live in this country where sad to say, rampant of street robberies are cuddled. Not to mention unimaginable killings, sex exploitation and the likes. Our government should look or find ways to put a stop on this or somehow lessen or at least to deploy man lang some police in those areas that cuddle thieves. Light posts should be inspected regularly so as to shoo away hangers on, who sniff and when zonked out will find prey for easy money.
**One example is Tara Santelecis. The poor victim was shot in the head at close range, (comatosed...very horrible...I wonder how she's now doing)... when she fought for her laptop from her e#*l-attacker. Wala bang pamilya ang mga taong ito? Wala ba silang konsenya? Wala ba silang natutunan man lang values sa kanilang mga magulang? Wala ba silang takot sa Diyos? Wala ba silang pangarap? Anong klaseng buhay ang pinamumulat nila sa kanilang mga anak?

Idle hands are the devil's tools
("Collections" 1808)
Idle brains are the devil's workhouses (T. Fuller 1732)
If the Devil finds a Man idle, he'll set him at work (J. Kelly, "Scottish Proverbs," 1721)

**One sure reason why they end up like this is being jobless. Kapag nga naman nagugutom na mga anak nila, wala ng konsye-konsyensya. This is one way to express their disappointment in life. Paano naman sila tatanggapin eh kahit nga janitorial jobs kailangan yata eh college graduate ka? So hindi pwede. Kung call center naku mas lalong di pwede. Eloquency counts here. So where will we put those blames? E di sa government natin, san pa ba? Some high officials pocketed large amount of government reserves. It would be a great help for some development and some projects or even to start a cottage industry program to help those who need to find jobs for subsistence. Kaya ayun, ang pinakamadali nga naman ay ang mang-agaw ng cellphone ng me cellphone. Easy money kasi. Easy to sell.
**Government earn a lot of criticisms and disappointment from private citizen like me. Eh wala na tayong ginawa kundi to splurge government funds to investigate and reinvestigate this and that anomalies. A lot of plundering cases, now we have Bolante to grill. Hay naku...ako as much as I can help it ayoko ng bumoto (ayoko naman masayang yung aking right to vote). In the end, we're just be helping future thieves. Kawawang Pinoy...kawawang Pinas...napakayaman natin kung tutuusin pero we landed as #5 sa pinaka-naghihirap na bansa...why?

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Author: Evan Esar