18TH POST

050609

Human beings normally take things for granted and "accept" many events, happenings, incidents as natural or part of the usual course of Life. But even as a child, I was always asking myself about the REASONS why these things happen around me. I was trying to see the RAISON D'ETRE for anything & everything about me... Why? Why? Take the case of my relationship with other HUMANS... I had friends & close relatives... But I always considered myself as ultimately ALONE, that I cannot "take control" of the lives of others... Thus, there was an unbridgeable SPACE between me & another HUMAN BEING, even my mother... As I grew older I became aware that many things around me, especially those connected with HUMAN BEINGS were essentially different from those from NATURE like stones, flora, fauna. Humans involve the idea of INTENTION/INTENTIONALITY, a very important concept that is the distinguishing feature of the HUMAN REALITY... (I'm having difficulty trying to express myself now, trying to PHILOSOPHIZE this very moment when I should just be uploading some pictures... I'll just continue this when I get the mood...

BAGUIO CITY, Crystal Cave

With my late cousin Rodolfo P. Rody was killed (knifed to death) in Bicol in the late 1970's or early 1980's allegedly due to problems with the land that his father owned. The CHISMIS was that his father was unscrupulous. But THEY should have killed his father & not him!!! He was one of my favorite companions as a child. He was also basically a loner & normally a very quiet, reserved person - yet VERY ALERT. But he had this funny unpredictable side which he showed to few individuals once in a while... One vivid memory scene: He jumped down from a high (for me) balcony & landed squarely on both his feet. His action greatly IMPRESSED me & had a very influential effect on me... Just like the effect of movie heros/heroines on young impressionable children... Have you noticed how the eyes of a young girl who falls in love with someone for the first time twinkle?... The dreamy eyes... Young children I guess are looking for someone to look up to - role-models... Maybe this is a basic human characteri/behaviour that happens & will continue to happen to people... Those who RUN THE WORLD should know these things too well & always exploit it in their MANIPULATIONs...

TO BE CONTINUED