and the rain never stopped

Monday, 102809

It's a gloomy Monday just right after the rain has subsided, it was not just any ordinary rain but it was caused by a storm named Ondoy who struck the Luzon areas for the past few days and has greatly devastated properties and interrupted the normal lives of the people and has turn Luzon into a large water basin.

I woke up to my feet wet this morning after leaving the window opened last night. My toes were freezing and my body felt really groggy and my eyes were chinked at the first ray of light. The wind seeped through the small slits of my sliding glass and found its way to give me chills. It's no ordinary Monday knowing that some people out there have lost their homes to the ravishing flood, knowing that they could barely eat, knowing that after the storm all that is left to them is their gratitude to God for surviving such calamity.

I turn to myself, asking whether I did anything to be of help to these people, whether I did anything to ease their suffering, whether I did my role as their fellow Filipino, whether I did my role as a human being. Help was constantly delivered to them to temporarily aid them at the moment, but after this what's gonna happen to them?

How can I help? How can we help?

Here's a line from the movie Surrogates, I don't know if I'll get this right but it sounded like, "The moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the time we lose our humanity."

Let's fight against the calamity and show that we can survive the devastation it has brought to us because we are one and united Filipinos. Let us pray for the safety of those who are in Luzon and others who are gravely affected by the typhoon.