A Warning we should take heed

The happening in the afternoon of Saturday, September 26 broke out like a raging typhoon to the world. And it really was. Typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila and neighboring provinces like a sudden spill of a cup - unchangeable, inalienable. The typhoon shook, and took away a hundred (and counting) lives. The metropolis suddenly transformed into an eerie of doom and gloominess while debris march along the flow of the current in the flooded areas of the place; with people waiting with their feet firm on rooftops of flooded houses, hoping for a quick rescue.

I heard of the fateful happening while spending my weekend in Cebu City, the first time after a long time. This also came to me like a shock like how it came to everybody because I have never seen a shot of progressive Metro Manila in its flooded, extremely drenched scene. I have never seen Manila in its calamity state, drenched not only in waters but also in melancholy, silenced cries, and the indescribable luminance of malady at its peak.

And to add to my increasing shock, I remembered my brother Jerry in Rizal, who we later discovered to have walked 8 hours with half of his body under water, to rescue immediately his belongings in his house 20 kilometers away.

Perhaps, as these scenes flash on our eyes on television, realities cross our minds. There's nothing we can do but prevent such to happen again. In this light, we remember that the humankind has done a mistake.

Realizations come that God crafted all these things to happen: to shake our minds and hearts through stirring it, and in the end, making us realize that we can do our part for the environment.

There's something we should do so we will no longer hear these alarming news next time. And the answer is on our hands.