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ellen’s life part 2
Ellen worked hard. She felt she’s late in starting to build a real life. She’s 22 years old with barely nothing to start with and literally proceeding slow towards achieving a goal that seemed too big. Can she do it? Shel’ll try.
Elllen earned 5,000 pesos a month as an internet cafe attendant. Not much, but she can’t have a higher-paying job because she only finished a two-year computer programming course with just a passing grade. Saturdays and Sundays Ellen worked as a photocopier operator. She got 150 per day.
Ellen worked for 20 years. Did odd jobs. Spent less on food and lesser on clothing and other accessories. Bu afttter 20 years of hard labor, Ellen only has 10,000 pesos in the bank. Most of her money went to hospitall bills.
Now, Ellen is still working. At 42, she mans a little shop in the corner. The end.
Some people are like Ellen. They dream big and would do anything to achieve that dream. But sometimes, like Ellen’ s, big opportunities don’t come their way however much they would want to attract them. Sad, but that’s their reality. It bites and it sucks. ###
rice crisis
i went to city hall earlier for an audience with the mayor. i saw one street there was closed to accommodate the queue of people hoping to avail of the free rice the mayor’s office was giving out. men, women, oldies, teens– different kinds of people were there. i saw some with white plastic bags with what seemed to be 2 kilos of rice and a few canned sardines. maybe a day’s worth of food.
i liked the drama in how some of those people hold the shoulder of the person preceding them in the line. a gentle shove maybe implying ” let’s move this line forward”..
in other regions, the national food authority also distributes free or low-priced rice. reports say that lines there start at dawn and snaking through sidewalks. i see those faces on tv and the thought of a looming rice crisis disturbs me. my family, like other Filipinos, are so used to eating rice that the perspective of substituting it with other carbo-rich staples seems hard to adapt to.
what could possibly avert a rice crisis? a food crisis?. it’s global now.
i think we should eliminate the use of money as purchasing tool. let’s go back to barter. then utilize lands more for planting food crops not artificial things. in short, we should go back to basic… i know, it’s a tall order. very tall… but i wish.###
