Morbid indulgence

Thursday, February 23, 2006

The post that could have been the best post of my life if I had been more talented at doing this blog thingee

Once in a while, you go through an experience which lifts you out of your petty everyday problems and just makes you realize just how lucky you are just by being alive, sort of a wake up call, a reminder for us to slow down and take time to appreciate the things that are left for us.

I was subjected to such an experience this afternoon.

For some time now, I have been undergoing one of the most hellishly stressful days, not only in school but at home as well. Long exams, defense for our research paper in Physiolgy, play for Medical Ethics and the comprehensive final exams have been threatening to crush me into an unreconizable pulp, and God help me if they are not succeeding in it. To top it all, my father is sick with Pott's disease (tuberculosis of the bones).

Then as I was going from school this afternoon, I rode a jeepney whose driver felt as if he's constantly on the race track. We were going around 80 on the skyway, eh tapos biglang pumutok yung gul0ng. For some seconds or so, it really seemed as if the vehicle would lose control and start hitting other surrounding vehicles (we were in the middle lane). Luckily, the driver kept his cool and was able to safely make a stop at the outermost lane.

Yun lang. Kala ko katapusan ko na. Hindi pa pala.

Gumaan bigla lahat ng problema ko.

(pasensya na nawalan na ako ng huwisyong tapusin ang reflection ko na ito. gabi na e. inaantok na ako. basta masayang tumayo sa gilid ng skyway, lalu na pag may dumadaan na malaking bus. bahagyang yumayanig ang lupa. nakakawindang ng vestibular apparatus.)

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