The setting is in a stage with a comfy couch, cameras everywhere and audiences too. A very noisy place everyone is busy with chit-chat. Few minutes, someone shouts “ready” and everyone behaves like in kindergarten.
The man then continues. “Take”.
Woman: If you have one wish what would it be?
Rhyl: Ammmm… Let me think for awhile…
Then the story begins.
I pondered many times about this delusion. One wish – many of us dream to have one heard by genies, fairies, dwarves whatever etc. they are. But the fact is we cannot have one fulfilled like in many fantasy movies or fairy tale books. Why bother for it?
In reality, we often heard about the funny question in clumsy beauty pageants (I can’t think of a kind questioned in big ones). Not again, but we all know the clumsy answer – WORLD PEACE. (Repeat that!) - WORLD PEACE. Even these days we usually answer that question never thinking of its meaningful hallucinations beyond.
Oh wait! I am thinking much. And I’m forgetting something – about my favorite past time – reading Naruto in a free Manga website; new episode released. But there’s still another one.
Rhyl looks around to see the audiences’ faces, hoping to get inspirations in them. He will see nothing but a face of time lag. Then he looks back to the woman about to utter a word… still thinking about how to start.
Given one wish, I would want to undo the things that destroyed the balance of nature. A straight answer not following the conventional “I want WORLD PEACE”. Of course! It isn’t a joke now. At this time we can’t ask for world peace, for it’s not world peace is needed. Now, we are not in the time of Humans versus Humans. Nature is striking back at us. Centuries past, people’s mind were traumatic about wars, killings etc. But now is different. It isn’t war that kills millions. The nature is.
“It’s payback time” – a popular saying for revenge. Yes revenge is sweet but is always a bitter enemy. It’s the reason why we are experiencing natural disasters. Globally, we do experience them from time to time but this time they’re worse. Typhoons wake, signal # 1; however kill thousands in total. Mini-quakes are recorded daily, granting they are just normal core activities. Months later, landslide reports here and there, in various places, killed thousands. They’re not the just-coincidence which we say life is. They happen like shits. There are more such avalanche, forest fires, sand storm, tsunamis, tornadoes – they really kill thousands.
Filipinos are happy people. This is the country of smiles that even people in commemoration smiles when seeing a camera? – a cultural defect. One of many reasons is we are fortunate not to experience much of the disasters unlike other countries. Of course we are in the equatorial area of the globe, we have seasonal balance. However, Philippines has been regularly and normally visited by typhoons. The PAGASA reports at least 20 typhoons every year. But not all of these are signaled to be strong. This is a usual phenomenon for us; now it’s getting to be unusual.
Record of typhoons says that each year they are slowly getting stronger. It is evident. I can’t help but to tackle the latest headlines of big news dailies in the country for this day. I’m talking of the landslide which reported to kill 10 people (hoping the number won’t go up). This is due to the typhoon Kiko which is just warming-up. Hello to him, and more to come; we are still in the early month of August. Ber-months were observed to be hit by big ones.
They are still fresh to us - the recent two-some floods which hit Cagayan de Oro. The city was called to be favored-by-Gods but now of disaster preparations are ready in anticipation of “The Flood Returns”. Fifty years gone since the last flood hit the city. Now it’s gradually sinking us.
I have enough of these problems globally, nationally and locally.
So when are we gonna stop asking for “World Peace”? We are now facing a bigger one. We are facing the same problem – of nature and environment. We have destroyed its balance. We are killing our own brethren. And who’s to be blame?
I’ve been experiencing dehydration 3-4 years back. I frequently get to urinate and irritated about it. Lately it annoys me again because of the for-three-days-now unusual heat in the middle of rainy season. Now we see and experience the so-called “climate-change” we use to hear. And who’s to blame again?
Rhyl looks at the woman waiting for the answer. Now able to speak a word. The audiences are waiting for it.
Rhyl: Given a chance to have just one wish…
His mouth is unable to continue.
The man then continues. “Take”.
Woman: If you have one wish what would it be?
Rhyl: Ammmm… Let me think for awhile…
Then the story begins.
I pondered many times about this delusion. One wish – many of us dream to have one heard by genies, fairies, dwarves whatever etc. they are. But the fact is we cannot have one fulfilled like in many fantasy movies or fairy tale books. Why bother for it?
In reality, we often heard about the funny question in clumsy beauty pageants (I can’t think of a kind questioned in big ones). Not again, but we all know the clumsy answer – WORLD PEACE. (Repeat that!) - WORLD PEACE. Even these days we usually answer that question never thinking of its meaningful hallucinations beyond.
Oh wait! I am thinking much. And I’m forgetting something – about my favorite past time – reading Naruto in a free Manga website; new episode released. But there’s still another one.
Rhyl looks around to see the audiences’ faces, hoping to get inspirations in them. He will see nothing but a face of time lag. Then he looks back to the woman about to utter a word… still thinking about how to start.
Given one wish, I would want to undo the things that destroyed the balance of nature. A straight answer not following the conventional “I want WORLD PEACE”. Of course! It isn’t a joke now. At this time we can’t ask for world peace, for it’s not world peace is needed. Now, we are not in the time of Humans versus Humans. Nature is striking back at us. Centuries past, people’s mind were traumatic about wars, killings etc. But now is different. It isn’t war that kills millions. The nature is.
“It’s payback time” – a popular saying for revenge. Yes revenge is sweet but is always a bitter enemy. It’s the reason why we are experiencing natural disasters. Globally, we do experience them from time to time but this time they’re worse. Typhoons wake, signal # 1; however kill thousands in total. Mini-quakes are recorded daily, granting they are just normal core activities. Months later, landslide reports here and there, in various places, killed thousands. They’re not the just-coincidence which we say life is. They happen like shits. There are more such avalanche, forest fires, sand storm, tsunamis, tornadoes – they really kill thousands.
Filipinos are happy people. This is the country of smiles that even people in commemoration smiles when seeing a camera? – a cultural defect. One of many reasons is we are fortunate not to experience much of the disasters unlike other countries. Of course we are in the equatorial area of the globe, we have seasonal balance. However, Philippines has been regularly and normally visited by typhoons. The PAGASA reports at least 20 typhoons every year. But not all of these are signaled to be strong. This is a usual phenomenon for us; now it’s getting to be unusual.
Record of typhoons says that each year they are slowly getting stronger. It is evident. I can’t help but to tackle the latest headlines of big news dailies in the country for this day. I’m talking of the landslide which reported to kill 10 people (hoping the number won’t go up). This is due to the typhoon Kiko which is just warming-up. Hello to him, and more to come; we are still in the early month of August. Ber-months were observed to be hit by big ones.
They are still fresh to us - the recent two-some floods which hit Cagayan de Oro. The city was called to be favored-by-Gods but now of disaster preparations are ready in anticipation of “The Flood Returns”. Fifty years gone since the last flood hit the city. Now it’s gradually sinking us.
I have enough of these problems globally, nationally and locally.
So when are we gonna stop asking for “World Peace”? We are now facing a bigger one. We are facing the same problem – of nature and environment. We have destroyed its balance. We are killing our own brethren. And who’s to be blame?
I’ve been experiencing dehydration 3-4 years back. I frequently get to urinate and irritated about it. Lately it annoys me again because of the for-three-days-now unusual heat in the middle of rainy season. Now we see and experience the so-called “climate-change” we use to hear. And who’s to blame again?
Rhyl looks at the woman waiting for the answer. Now able to speak a word. The audiences are waiting for it.
Rhyl: Given a chance to have just one wish…
His mouth is unable to continue.
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