Photo taken at Mayoyao, Ifugao
Oh please please take me far away from here. Take me somewhere where I'm surrounded by lush green trees while clenching the rough edgy stones with my fists. I want to run. I need to run. I need an escape. I deserve an escape. Oh dear earthquake, shatter this ground and take me away from this daily solitary routine. How can life be defined by staying inside a big box with doors and windows? How will these four corners make me feel alive and kicking? Work is of the essence but somehow we just have that occasional thug inside us to let loose and return to our primary roots.
Life should be lived out on the open field, under the vast blue sky, embracing sunshine’s warmth, shivering under rain showers, leaping from a rock to another, rolling over the green green grass, swimming in seas and oceans. There are beasts within each and every one of us. We can run like gazelles all throughout the horizon, be a beast and fight like jungle lions, pound the ground like big grumpy elephants. Some of us may even be dolphins living life carefree, or be silly like a bunch of monkeys having the time of their lives. But one thing is for certain, if only we have wings, then without a doubt we will be like eagles soaring the brazen skies.
Life has so much to offer than the confines of an office, answering calls and providing solutions, absorbing other people’s anger and frustrations. Stress is a huge boulder I cast upon my shoulders. A breakdown is not too far from where I am right now. Bearing it alone is not possible. A friend may come but soon they’ll pass. And in my quaint bedroom moments I cry, somehow it eases the pain. In tough cases screaming helps, find a rooftop and scream all you want. But rest assured most of the time ice cream never fails.
