sayang naman…

09/26/09 - Philippine Flooding - on Flickr

These past few days were not very much the kind of days I wanted to experience. I think I can get your nod when I say this last week was amongst the worst if not the worst calamity in the Philippines. I haven’t seen anything like that happen in this country in my nineteen years of existence. Baha dito, baha doon. For a second I felt like this was the beginning of the end of our earth.

Sayang… Everything, every material thing people owned drowned with their very homes. And people worked hard to have these material possessions. I can only imagine myself in their shoes. I don’t even know how these people are coping with the situation. Ah, but I do, on second thought.

As much as I’ve heard, seen, read about people suffering from the effects of Ondoy, there are also stories of great heroism, and unity.

People risk their lives in order that others may live. And how just it is to live – with reason – if someone saved my life! My hero must’ve seen my worth. If he dies – which even in a sample situation I imagine well – then the more I should have a reason to live. Someone else died for me, and if I don’t live my life (not exist blog reader, live, not exist) I will only insult the memory of the one who saved – and died for – me.

Ondoy Relief Efforts - on Flickr

People help each other. I was amazed at the number of volunteers the different foundations were able to have. Aside from these volunteers, help from  many private companies – in cash or in goods – was and still is (if I’m not mistaken) pouring like heavy rain.

The literal uber heavy rain that hit the country gets matched by the heavy rain of good deeds. I have never been more proud as a Filipino.

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PS. As you may have noticed, I’m back blogging at WordPress.com. What about the blog at paulSarcia.com? Well, I can just say that some disaster also occured and led to a major problem which caused a good number of blog posts to be deleted, and worse, there’s no way I can bring them back. sayang naman…