If it wasn’t Ade who posted this pic on Plurk, I would have not noticed it.

Photo courtesy of Ade:

It sure did make me teary-eyed for a split second

I have a bunch of problems that I’ve been paying attention to for the past few days. But after seeing this wonderful thing amidst the darkest of our skies, I simply looked behind, hurriedly wiped those tears away, and just smiled back.

Life really is full of surprises, don’t you think?

I was so pissed off.

The reason was simple. I watched Wowowee with full anticipation that I would enjoy commercial breaks of Eat Bulaga. However, by the time I hear those kids at Willie of Fortune respond to Willie (Revillame, that is) that they belong to a family of numbers more than the fingers in my two grotesquely maintained hands, my head was about to explode to… umm, my tummy was about to explode while thinking of words to suffice without the disgusting part.

Seeing Willie Revillame making fun of the contestant’s antics, which I sometimes reject because he has no right to do so but he’s the host so, whatever, is unavoidably laughable and at the same time brain freezing. Of course, Willie acting as if he’s more intelligent than the Wowowee crowd inside and outside the studio, is in itself funny. Nevertheless, the so-called fun part is not the case I’m pointing out.

During those minutes of unexplainable entertainment, the experience was kind of a breath of fresh air, or a lack of it. You see, I used to find the responses of those contestants in Wowowee who were just truthful with their words, entertaining. But at that point where the ‘juniors’ are telling everyone in the world that their parents are just vendors or labanderas or construction workers, or simply earning less than enough to feed their family of not less than 6, I was hurt enough to either change channels instantly or to explain to my mom how I find the church, or any other church’s stand on contraception aka ‘pro-life advocacy’ unappealing and pathetically hypocritic.

I was wondering, of all the issues I have to deal with, about the reason why these kids have to suffer because of their existence due to the love that is shared by their parents? Is it a blessing that their existence with lack of decent food, clothing, shelter, and education is continuously sustained? That these kids, along with a handful of siblings in their family, have to be sufficed by the parents who are not well-bred enough to nurture their children well? That their unsustainable number in the family should have been avoided in the first place?

If the Church, or the Scriptures, is divinely and lovely enough to promote life by not masturbating, withdrawing, or any other coitus interruptus methods, can we consider overpopulating the Philippine divinely and lovely enough to promote life through people who love their spouses so much that they cannot control their libido and love each other every day and raise 10 plus kids inside their shanties along with cockroaches and rats and a bowl of rice sauced with coffee?

If stopping the union of unicellular organisms belonging to the same level as the germs found in our intestinal tract, based on the Scriptures, it is a sin. However, do the Scriptures consider lack of control to sexual desires, lack of discipline, lack of love for him/herself for consensual betterment of themselves and the people around them, and other lack of everything else due to negligence, sinful?

Basta. It just poured out of my mind after seeing that dwarf kid whose chance of getting a better life upon reaching 18 very impossible. All because he has to coexist with his 13 siblings and parents who struggle to earn less than a regular nurse in a month here in our country.

That their existence in this world is the main reason why they suffer.

(Maybe you were thinking about my patronage to Eat Bulaga and my changing channels. Ano ba? Ang daming sponsors kaya ng Eat Bulaga. Besides, it won’t affect the ratings game. I have no Geiger counters set by AGB-Nielsen around our house. Plus, I’m too much fed by the Ogie Doggie ads. What a joke.)