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Fingers ticking

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Fingers tickingThinking, yes, thinking. What is the phase of life that is more fun and exciting?

A child is born with smiling parents, after the labor that a mother had at birth, a smile was still there, joyful. A beginning of a new life and life ahead. Feeding and more feeding. Milk and so much affection are fed. Attention are given the most.

Months went ahead. The learning and how to talk made the parents giggle. Slowly crawling, then, standing up and eventually walking stages. Food served also became more and more tasteful. From milk to food.

A year after a blown cake was served with a fancy cartoon character holding the number 1 sign. Became taller and speaks several words. Learned how to run slowly and get along playing with playmates.

Year came and year after a year. Became grown up, went to school at the seventh age. Learning how to hold the pencil and write. Coloring some books and answering activities. Eating a nutritious food at snacks time. Learning how to read and answering some simple math problem solving.

At high school, life gets easier, no more mother to fetch you and enjoying the freedom given. But just when it is easier, peer pressures are still there. Getting the best grade would make you more hip and find many friends. Math problem solving gets tougher not to mention the math algebra. But then you surpass them all and get through the next level.

College. Deciding what to take as a course makes a tough decision but finding the right choice would make it great! It will be easier for you to pass all subjects if you pursue in studying well. Yes, study harder and making thesis until dawn just to pass it on time.At last after long years of going to school should end at college unless you decide on getting other courses to get a higher rank on job.

Early twenties, some may find a job, some may not. Some may get married, some may not. Some may still be depending on their parents, some may not. Some may have a child or children, some may not.

At thirties, some may still be studying, some are promoted from the job, some went abroad while some are still looking for that someone they should be marrying.

Forties, then come fifties and sixties and seventies. At those ages some are successful, some are still deprived from poverty, some have grandchildren and some haven’t. Some may be sick and some maybe healthy. Some may die at seventies and some may live until eighties and even nineties.

Phases in life are there to let us learn and never stop learning until the time that we leave. Each phase create a dot on a line that we follow. We should walk through it, it is fun and exciting in a sense that we learn from it’s purpose as life progressed. As the ticking of fingers on the sand it creates a small mark on every aspect of our lives.

Walking Joyfully

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Walking JoyfullyGrief was the sound of a young boy’s heart. His father passed away. He never could have thought it happened. Looking back at the memories of his father before he died make him cry more tears.

He is second to the youngest of the family. He was fifteen years old when his father died. Her mother was busy raising them up after his father’s death. Loneliness flicker when he was left alone, her mother was working and her older siblings went to school. He stopped schooling because he didn’t want to pursue it.

Looking back during the times when his father was still beside him. They would usually come together riding on a motorcycle just to get fresh air. They would go to a beach, his father taught him how to swim. Tears fell like streams of water that came from the heart.

His father was a hard working man. He came from a poor family from a province. He had seen the poverty and the need to do something to get out from it. He chose to leave his parents and went to the city to look for a job. A big company was hiring an assistant that time for a certain position, he then volunteered. Through the years of hard work he had been promoted to a higher position.

The young boy was determined to walk through his father’s footsteps as a hardworking man. But when his father died, his dreams were shattered. He went on to spent more time with the bad influence of his peers.

His mother forced him to go to school to keep him away from his friends. He eventually followed as his mother have told him. Just as her mother have thought it will do him no harm but then the worst happened. She thought his son would go to school everyday but then he went to internet cafes and play online games. His tuition fees weren’t paid instead used the money on playing games.

He never finished high school. He went on with his friends and learn how to drink at a young age and became a drunkard. Her mother miserably kept track of him to lead him the right direction. But then, he was hardheaded. He kept on doing what he thought would make him forget his father’s death.

He was sleeping down the street drunk with his friends. When a dream came after him like a haunting. He dreamed of walking down the stairways and finding a coffin downstairs, he was looking forward at who was inside it. To his dismay, it was her mother.

He woke up that day troubled and went home to see his mother. He can’t afford losing her. She is the only one that is left for him. He hugged and kissed her mother. She smiled and asked “what happened to you my son?”. He then whispered, “I’m sorry I have been so selfish.” He should not be selfish enough of thinking about himself. He can move on with his life spending each day with her mother knowing she is still there for him.

We sometimes face troubles in life that seemed unbearable. But then when we opened our eyes to change and start looking for what we still have only then will we be content and not consumed by the fierce emotions of loneliness and pain. Instead, we can still walk joyfully together with the person who is close to our hearts.

Coin for a smile

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Coin for a smileThere was an old beggar down the street, wearing his rugged and patched clothes sneezing as if he has sinus infection. He looked worn out and filthy. A well-dressed woman passed by him but never seemed to look down on where he sat down. She gracefully swung her hands while walking on heading to her fashion boutique situated nearby. The smell of her expensive perfume never seemed to let her notice the foul smell of the beggar she passed by.

A young man passed by the beggar carrying on his right hand the latest cellphone he just bought. The beggar called out for him for a penny, but he was busy talking to his client over the phone setting up a meeting.

A car stopped beside the street where the beggar is sitting, honking it’s horn for it can’t park on its parking lot because a child passing blocked its way in. A middle-aged man went down from the car with his suitcase at hand. He had his bodyguards following him. The beggar was about to follow him asking for help when a bodyguard stood by him to stop him.

A painter carrying a box filled with paints, brushes and some stuff used to paint walked along where the beggar was. He walked the fastest to get his project done the fastest. He accidentally dropped a brush and got it back on the box without paying attention to the beggar.

A teacher passed by the street with plenty of things on her mind preparing for the class lessons she will be doing today. Familiarizing the lessons while walking ahead to the school. She had in mind the students she will be assigning for the reporting of a certain topic. Besides the fact that her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She never noticed the beggar.

A seven year old child held hands with his mother noticed the beggar from afar. He had kept a coin from his pocket from yesterday. He should be saving a coin everyday to buy his mother a card on her birthday. He looked at the old man’s clothes and have seen how dirty and worn out it is. He saw the wrinkles and the sadness on his face. As he went nearer he pitied the beggar and gave the coin he saved to him. The beggar smiled as he dropped a coin on his container.

The fashion model wore high heels that she never have seen the beggar sat down, the young man should be listening attentively to the one he is talking to ever the phone that he never heard the beggar, the middle-aged man was blocked by his bodyguard that he never heard the beggar called, a painter could have painted the misery of life the beggar is having and the teacher could have taught the students on helping the beggars. The child must have been too little to notice the beggar from afar.

Many of us in different situations in life somehow passed through a beggar down the street, should we be too busy with our daily routines that we never gave a brief stop and give a coin for a smile? The child gave his coin but that’s all he got.