He came to your office all thin and a bit dirty. His shirt was yellowed due to overuse... He then divulged his secrets to you and you were jolted out of your own wonderland and returned to the real world. You looked at his eyes and you saw a certain sadness in there...
After that he started to have fleeting visits at your office and eventually he became the brother you did not have...
How many kids who are like him? How many young persons out there who are facing their own sufferings? Why should it be like that?
Adults could indeed be children in the real sense. They could not act the way it's supposed to be. Parents could sometimes fail due to immaturity. They would only consider themselves not realizing that having children would entail service... You are guilty also of some of this "adult-child" stuff yet you won't fail to self-talk, to process and act on things which need to be acted upon...
You could not grasp the magnitude of those charitable institutions especially those from the local TV networks which would herald their deeds of donating bags and notebooks to those kids. Yet, these things are all just passing. The real battle is how could they survive in the real world where they are not trained how to deal with. When we give five pesos to that street child, would that solve something? Yeah it could probably feed him with bread worth the dole out but after that... what?
That's the broadness of our problems. We could not blame the parents who gave birth to these kids like litters for they might be victims of their own consequences... But then again, adults are supposed to act like they KNOW HOW to deal with life.
After that he started to have fleeting visits at your office and eventually he became the brother you did not have...
How many kids who are like him? How many young persons out there who are facing their own sufferings? Why should it be like that?
Adults could indeed be children in the real sense. They could not act the way it's supposed to be. Parents could sometimes fail due to immaturity. They would only consider themselves not realizing that having children would entail service... You are guilty also of some of this "adult-child" stuff yet you won't fail to self-talk, to process and act on things which need to be acted upon...
You could not grasp the magnitude of those charitable institutions especially those from the local TV networks which would herald their deeds of donating bags and notebooks to those kids. Yet, these things are all just passing. The real battle is how could they survive in the real world where they are not trained how to deal with. When we give five pesos to that street child, would that solve something? Yeah it could probably feed him with bread worth the dole out but after that... what?
That's the broadness of our problems. We could not blame the parents who gave birth to these kids like litters for they might be victims of their own consequences... But then again, adults are supposed to act like they KNOW HOW to deal with life.
How do we build their future? Most of them are on the streets at night while most of us gamble or view those sloppy telenovelas . We cry over Agua's misfortunes not realizing our own kids are having their own. They are being bullied, abused and pressured to drink, smoke and have sex. Yet we contain ourselves to our own worlds and cry over fiction.
Yeah, you could be weary by just thinking such thoughts for you could only help one or two kids since adopting them all would be impossible and would categorize you to those who visit orphanages and cry over the misfortune of others... which won't be enough.
Yeah, you could be weary by just thinking such thoughts for you could only help one or two kids since adopting them all would be impossible and would categorize you to those who visit orphanages and cry over the misfortune of others... which won't be enough.
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