. Feels like my heart is being crashed! Feels like my heart is being pulled by a chain. So heavy!
That’s why, here I am again. Letting this feelings out. Pouring it out!
an OLD WOMAN. My neighbor, about 10 houses away. She is in her mid 70′s . So old! I could vividly see her veins in her hands bulging through her skin. So thin.
What made me feel this way?
…while riding at a public utility vehicle (PUV) heading to my work, she caught my eye. Seating just in front of me. In her lap was a “BILAO”
with peanuts packed in a plastic worth 5 pesos.
She’s a vendor! Several years! I even know where her place is.
Glancing at her made my weird feelings grew. The feeling of heaviness! I pitied on her. I did!
I counted the number of packed peanuts, it was only 16 pieces. Imagine! 16 pieces times 5 pesos would result to 80 pesos?! The nerve! How did she able to survive knowing she could only get that amount. What about her fare? 14 pesos back and forth . Her lunch? I know she’ll be staying in the place ’till the afternoon.
After the long day selling, how much money could she able to bring with her at home?
I wanna help! I want to buy all that peanuts! But I did not! The crap!
I could hardly stare at her when she’s fronting me. If she happened to look somewhere, that’s the time I could stare her face. So old really. I could see her left eye semi-closed.
Her skin.
Her posture!
…whew!
Good thing that somebody bought 2 pieces of her packed peanuts. That made me a ‘lil okay.
But me?
So pathetic! I only just pitied on her… no concrete actions!
For now, prayer is the only thing I could give to her. I wish she could have all the luxury in life. To savor it.
Unfair life!
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