09.01.06

the miracle of “hi”

Posted in Journal at 8:51 am by erald17

Often times we take simple things for granted. Little do we know these simple things can mean so much to our lives.

One day i was walking along the campus, feeling like a stranger. i was just walking straight ahead toward my room, heading for more hours of lectures and discussions. i intensely felt like my days were very much routinary. i would wake up early in the morning for the same reason, and would go home for the same reason. every single day, i stride the same pathways, enter the same doors, peep through the same windows, open the same books. i did not notice how tired my physical body has been, and how it has been longing to feel the comfort of my pillows, and how my lungs have been longing to catch more breath to at least regain the strength i have consumed.

For quite a long while, i just felt like a stranger to my own world.

Now i cannot just let go of this feeling of gladness when some people care to say "hi" whenever i meet them on my way to MB-40_ or to CMR-201_. These people do not have any idea how that simple greeting of theirs can awaken my senses and make me utter to myself, "Ang ganda pala ng buhay kapag nakakakita ka ng mga taong masaya." I do not assume that these people are indeed happy inside, but what matters is that they are willing to bring light into the lives of others - despite their dimming flames - for friendship’s sake.

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