Posts

Showing posts from March, 2017

To the Moon and Back

Image
At 5:51 pm, I received a call from one of my best friends, Kate... A call I never expected... A call that no one would ever dare to answer... A call that will suddenly shatter your world and disturb your almost perfect day. Her voice was shaking, and I know that she had been crying and she was sniffing. I wonder... I wonder why she was crying. I wonder if she had broken up with her boyfriend, but she had dropped the most explosive bomb ever made into this world... "She's gone." Those were her words. I don't know what to say, I don't know what to do, and most of all I don't know how will I react, although I felt a pain in my chest, a heavy feeling in my heart. It echoed in my ears that our friend is gone. Our best friend is gone, and I don't know whether I had the right to call her, "best friend". Yet she's the person who showed me more of the K - Pop and the anime world. She's one of those people who made an impact in my ...

ROAD WIDENING

Image
The narrow roads had already changed, trucks, PUVs and automobiles could now fit in a single lane. People who walked on the sidewalks were getting braver and braver, that they were playing chase with vehicles, while Death were looking after them, waiting for his time to reap. The trees that swayed and played with the gentle breeze were now gone, and I wonder where they went. When you look around all you could see were tall leaning posts with wires that hang loose, and birds nested at the very top. Large machines came and knocked down every house that it passed by, while people camped away. Wrecking balls swayed here and there, and the walls crashed down, colorful tiles were shattered, walls as high as mountains fell down. There were tears in their eyes, as they watched their house and memories will be memories, and mementos would be buried six feet under ground. As tricycles sped away, they had seen future in the corner of their eyes. Innovations that the leader had promised h...