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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.

Shoulder to lean

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Shoulder to leanEvery child deserves a shoulder to lean on.

In a third world country like Philippines many children are raised with poor parents. The irony of thing is the poorer the higher the number of children being raised. There is no actual family planning. Some have been told of such family planning methods through seminars held at their respective health centers but some never heard of such planning. They were uneducated and illiterate.

There was a poor couple who were facing an unplanned pregnancy. It was just few months after giving birth to a son. They ate at least thrice a day but suffered the agonizing heat of the sun. Both of them are laborers. They would wait on a dump truck that would dump garbage on their place. They would then pick up will bare hands some tin cans, used bottles and scrap metals out of the garbage and sold it at the nearby junk shop.

A middle class couple had lost their should be first born son of a miscarriage. They have waited a year for his wife to get pregnant after the wedding, thought the pregnancy was all the way to born a healthy baby. But then, just at it’s sixth month of pregnancy that they found out there was no more heartbeat of the fetus that was heard. Dismayed of what happened their relationship went cold and sad.

A rich couple who had been married for five years never had a child. His wife is barren, there is no hope for her to get pregnant. They went looking for the right child to adopt. They want to see the relatives of the child, their physical appearance if they looked good and if they have good background. They saw some of their relatives but haven’t met the parents. They planned to go abroad after the papers of the child be fully processed for adoption.

So, it was a three hour travel to get into the place of the prospective child to be adopted. It was the day that the child should be born. When they arrived at the place, they saw the mother’s physical appearance. The exact opposite of their relatives good looking features. But they can’t back out all was planned as it was. They have waited for few hours but her mother was still in labor. It was getting late and they still have to travel long way heading home. They just then left the place. After it, the ones who brought the couple to the place never heard of the couple’s interest of adopting the child again. That child is the daughter of the poor couple.

The poor couple who had planned to let the child be adopted had lost hope. Then, they decided of having the child to be adopted by her cousin, the middle class couple. She went to see her cousin to have her child adopted, though hesitant at first she accepted the child as her  foster daughter. It was the right decision for after that first miscarriage she never got pregnant again.

When adopting, should you be choosy to know who to adopt judging that child through the physical appearance of the parents? Should you not know first to accept them wholeheartedly? With the middle class couple is a sweet girl who loves them.She needs her mother for a shoulder to lean on. She deserves their love and nurturing care.