Nature’s Call

Saturday seems like another ordinary rainy day to me. I woke up 10 o’ clock in the morning and worrying how the kittens in the street are doing. Last Friday night, I saw them under a broken umbrella. Tired from a weeks load of work. We’re disappointed for not having cable reception. We have nothing to do but sleep, eat and play games in my laptop. In the aternoon, we decided to get some groceries. The food container was running out of it’s supplies (siguro sa sobrang katakawan namin ).

It was still raining outside. I can feel the cold wind and rain against my skin. As soon as I step outside, there I saw what fortune the rain has bestowned to the kittens. I saw one of them lying lifeless on the street, washed out by the flowing water. Although I didn’t see the other one, I assume it ended up the same fate. We got the groceries we needed and we headed back home. It was already 9 o’clock in the evening and we still have no cable reception. We usually sleep late, but that night we doozed off early.

Sunday, sun rays woke me. I heard the news coming from the television. The cable reception is back and what shocked me was the tragedy the rain has brought to other places. Kilometers away from our home, while I sleep peacefully with warm bed beneath me, people slept in their rooftops. Subdivisions where flood usually never reaches are now in deep water levels. Many incidents really caught my attention. People can be seen balancing along electric cables just to cross the flood. One video coverage showed a group of people as if surfing on a pile of tree braches, garbage and water lilies in a raging rive. They tried to save them but sadly their float crashed beneath the bridge pillar. Two of them who were trapped under the bridge were found dead. The others, I still have no update about them. It’s a terrible loss. 

Nature does not know how to desctruct. It has no control of what it can do. We are the one who has control. It’s what We do that desctructs the nature. The effect of our negligence and selfishness cause these calamities to happen.