Hope dangles on a string...

It's been a while... again... The main problem when it comes to my blogging, I'd say, is that I find something I want to write about, then another, until I forget about what it was I wanted to write about to begin with. Here was one of them:

A month or so ago, I visited the southern provinces with family and friends. I rather enjoyed it.. it's good to take a break from the bustling city every so often. Visiting the provincial areas is also a humbling experience.

Since my 'kuya' is from there, we joined him to pay respects to his grandparents and relatives who've long passed away. For one, the cemetery there is not as 'glorified' as the ones I seldom see here in the city. There were graves that have been forgotten, and the overall maintenance of the place is something else to be desired. On the way to say our prayers, I noticed graves.. that looked like someone buried their shoes in them. I then noticed the date of birth and death... July 11, and July 12. One such headstone even stated that the newborn didn't even reach to be a day old. Now that was a humbling experience.

I came to think about it... and how devastated (if there's a word stronger than that, let me know) their families might've been. A newborn is always a joy to have around the house.. from gladly making an idiot out of yourself in public by telling them how cutesy-wutesy they are, from teaching it how to walk, speak, and being with them on great moments of their lives... Their first day of school, their first puppy love, their first hangover... well, maybe the last one doesn't apply for all of us.

But anyway, another thing I'd like to bring up is how people, especially the younger ones these days, seem to jus' waste away their lives. And we have these people who've never even had the chance to experience life... Life isn't all great as we know it, but isn't that the beauty of it?

What jus' pisses me off is that those infants who died without even reaching a month old would've prob'ly made much better use of people who decide to jus' waste away their lives.

Holla.