love – a traumatic experience

Who would have thought that our stance toward love would really alter?

I’ve been asking myself about what love is. And all i KNEW is that : Love was a great feeling. And truly, it was. But after a series of heartbreaks and pain, i was able to grasp the undeniable definition of it.

I have just succumbed – to no one, for unknown reason. All I know is that love is nonexistent – just a nightmarish phantasm.

So, i therefore conclude that love is the finest vulnerability of every being. It is the major entity that leads us to suffering.

And here is the merest fact about love :

Love is a bait that steers us toward death.

LAUGH TRIP . . .

Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day

Ann Landers

And so forget your problems for a while and read the following jokes I procured from my friends, and laugh with me. At least, for a while.

1. “Ano ba yang Twilight na yan! Napaka-unrealistic.. Bampira? Hello!?? Meron ba non?”

- Harry Potter

1. Nalaman ko na hindi water vapor ang usok na lumalabas sa takore kapag kumukulo ang tubig. Ang mga ito’y walang iba kundi mga kaluluwa ng namatay na bacteria.

1. MAG-AMO, NAG-UUSAP TUNGKOL SA KALAGAYAN NI JUNIOR…

MAID: Ati, kelangan dawipa-EXTRAY ang ulo ni junior.?

AMO : Gaga! Tanga! Bobo! Anong EXTRAY? Wala ka talagang pinag-aralan no?!!?

MAID: Ano po ba ang tama ati?

AMO : CT SKULL

1. TIP FOR A LONG LIFE…

Huwag mo isusulat ang name mo sa condolence book kapag dumadalaw sa patay…

Kasi pagkatapos ng libing, nagkakaroon ng raffle kung sinong susunod. LOL

1. NANAY, PINAGSASABIHAN ANG ANAK…

NANAY: Anak, hindi ka ba nahihiya niyan? Tawag ako nang tawag sayo para utusan ka. Tapos ikaw, text ka lang ng text habang kilig na kilig ka diyan sa ka-text mo?!

ANAK : Inay, hindi ba mas nakakahiya kung ako ang mag-uutos sa inyo at ikaw ang nagtetext dito habang kinikilig?

NANAY: Ay, sorry naman anak.

1. ANAK, NAGHAHANAP NG PAGKAIN…

ANAK : Inay, ano po ang ulam natin?

NANAY: Tingnan mo na lang sa refrigerator natin anak.

ANAK : Eh wala naman po tayo ref, di ba?

NANAY: o, e di wala tayong ulam, anak. Konting utak naman.

1. DONYA: Bilang bagong katulong, gusto kong malaman mo na alas-sais impunto ang simula ng almusal dito.

MAID : Opo. Kung sakali man pong tulog pa po ako, mauna na po kayo kumain.

1. TATAY : Asensado na talaga ang anak natin sa US. Eto, nagpadala ng picture, nakasandal sa kotse. Basahin mo nga ang nakasulat sa likod.

NANAY : “Inay, nagpapasalamat ako. Kasi, kung hindi dahil sa kotse na to, natumba na ako sa sobrang gutom.”

1. GIRL NA MAY BALAT NG MUNGGO SA NGIPIN…

BF: Love, alam ko kung ano ang ulam nyo kanina.

GF: Talaga?

Sige, ano?

BF: Tingin ko, munggo.

GF: Weeeh. Mali!

Kahapon pa kaya yun! Hahahaha

1. ISANG NURSING STUDENT ANG NANGUNGULANGOT SA MAY JEEP…

LOLA: Iha, ano ang kinukuha mo?

GIRL : Nursing po, lola.

LOLA: Ahh. Akala ko kulangot..

In Lieu Of...

It was my birthday. I could not wait for you to accost me a very great birthday. I had a hard time to opt which clothes to don, what cap to wear and which bag to complement my habiliments. I felt very much elated to see you and to celebrate this eminent event with you. I wanted to fetch you in your house but you didn’t want to. So I did not insist. Excitedly, I went outside the house to grab a taxicab. I knew I would arrive in our rendezvous early. That was something new to me. Well, you knew that I always came late. But not this day, I was assuring you.

I did not want to make you wait for me. That’s the reason why I was prompt. But I had squandered so much time waiting for a taxi to come. I was really excited to see you again. Words were not enough to illustrate how exhilarated and desperate I was to see you. All I could do was smile.

My trance was disrupted when my phone commenced to ring. Hoping that it was you, I never did hesitate to answer it. All my hopes were gone when I learned that it was the school I was applying for college. When the phone call broke off, I abruptly put it back inside my body bag. And from that same bag, I procured a copy of the poem I composed for you. My eyes were fixed on that small parchment. And so I failed to notice a car going straight to me.

Realization hit me.

In lieu of a taxicab. . .a racecar.

In lieu of having a ride, I was slithering.

In lieu of a mall, I was in the hospital.

I could imagine you now, still waiting patiently in the mall where we would have met. Different images struck my cognizant mind. I could hear the loud screams of a boy beseeching for help. A surge of pain ran throughout my body. Tears were trying to escape from my closed eyes, but they could not. Gore oozed from my maimed skin. I knew I was barely breathing. I knew I had ephemeral time to live. I knew I wouldn’t survive this. And I could still feel the copy of the poem in my grip.

The poem I wrote was about how I would feel if you abandoned me. But it was the opposite of the reality which was how you would feel if I abandoned you.

I was very eager to communicate with you. To apologize to you for not being able to come to our meeting. To entreat you not to become sad over my demise. To let you hear that poem only from me.

And. . .

With my last gasping breath gone. . .

I was sure that. . .

In lieu of a birthday celebration was indeed a lamentation.