MY FOREST ADVENTURE...

It was around 3:00 a.m. when I woke up at that moment. I found myself having forty winks on the native cot next to the colossal giant tree. The surroundings were dark. I opened my eyes to the four corners of the earth and try to see everything that surrounded me. “Where am I?” I asked myself like a ghost. Then, I finally recognize that I was left with no-one else but me. I was left unaccompanied on the cold, dark, and silent forest. “Left alone in a dark wooded area?” I am surely afraid on the dark. “Why am I left here? Where is mom? Where is dad? Where is everybody...?”

Suddenly, I scampered swiftly through the dark-skied area. I ran with no explicit direction. I don’t know where to go. I was looking for my friends, my relatives, or even for the people who I didn’t know. I was looking for someone who can help me go back home.

After that, I heard a creepy sound. It seems that somebody was scratching. Suddenly, I have the sense that somebody was after me. I heard a howling. It wasn’t from a dog. And so, it was a fox’s voice. It hurriedly came within reach of me. It was trying to draw closer me. It was moving towards somebody, and I know it is really me whom the fox was looking for. It looked like that it was hungry-very very hungry.
So, I ran with the maximum speed as I am able to. Then, a big, bloodcurdling and creepy snake went near me. I screamed ear-splittingly but nobody took notice of me. The snake sinks its teeth into my arms. I howled thunderously. I cried, I sobbed, and I then shed my tears. But nobody can really help me be out of that moment. I can’t do anything. Blood was oozing. I saw the red droplets jump down to the ground. Then, I can hear people’s laughter. I thought at first they were only my imagination. But their voice, it looks like they are surrounding me. They are going to get in touch with me. As their voices got louder, I know, they are getting closer and closer and closer at me. I know they are going to do something on me. They are going to kill me!!! Thus, I ran as fast as I could. I can’t do anything. I looked back, and there they are. They are all bringing a sharp stiletto.
Mom and dad weren’t there to help me. Nobody took notice of me when I was there. I thought it was the end of my life. I know that any moment from that point in time, I can die. But still, I continued to ran, ran, and ran. But I fell down on the ground. My feet were very tired. I was very feeble and weak.
And there they are. They are going to take my life now. I can really see the sharp item going down to hit me. Haaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!! I cried so loud.

But before they sink their knife on me, I heard my sister’s voice calling my name. She asked me to wake up because we are going to my aunt’s house. they were going to left me if I wasn’t able to fix myself within 15 minutes.
Whhhhhhhhoooo… I thought it was really the end of me…

…but it was only a spine-chilling dream.

DREAMS INTENDED FOR TOMORROW...

Past is past. For those years, there were joys, there were happy moments. All the tears that came should brush away. All the sadness, the pain, the laughter, and the sad and happy moments, should be forgotten. All of these are today’s memories. But, how about for tomorrow. Just try to be still one day. Try to pause and think, “What shall I do in the future?” What do you want to have soon? Do you ever think about the future? Ask me this question and I will say ‘yes’. It’ true, I always think about the things that I want to have in the future.
I want to have my very own dream house. I want to have my own car. I want to have all these things. I don’t wish for the biggest house, but instead, just the ones that is enough for me and my family. I want to have the most shiny and latest model of the car. And so, I can travel around the world. I want to drive on my own car.
These things are on my dreams and wishes. I enjoy thinking about the future. Try it. Just what Filipino people say, “Libre lang mangarap”. But this is possible. If I try hard and do my best, who knows, I can have all this things or even more.
Before I go to bed, I think of what I should be for tomorrow. I want to be a teacher but I don’t have that long patient. I want to be a nurse, but nurses cost too much before they become a very successful nurse. I want to be an office employee or a secretary, but I think I cannot carry those heavy overtimes. Most of all, I want to have my very own business. The business where in I am the only head. I want to have my own shop. But in the other side of me, is myself thinking, “what if this shop will go down and people won’t buy my products?”
Ooooooooohhh… it is all up to the future. We can’t predict what will happen next. It is all on God’s will. I know that time will come and He will give me everything that is really for me. Everything has as a purpose. But we should not just trust everything on Him. God gives and we should work on it. It is also in our own hands.
All the things that I wish will all be granted if He really allow me to obtain all of these.
The red, shiny car, the dream house, the latest things, and to have my own business that will grow and bloom- this are the things that I desire to have.
We don’t know. Time is unpredictable.
Who knows? One day, when I woke up, I will be on a glamorous room; gazing on the window, is my red car; and on the telephone line, is an employee, calling me ‘ma’am’, and bringing up to date information about my shop.

We don’t know…