29 October 2012

Tara Na, padayon!

Tara na, samahan mo akong tumaliwas sa agos, dahil ako’y tulad ng usok na mula sa sasakya’y bumubulusok ; tulad ng ulan na walang pakundangan ; tulad ng sigarilyong unti-unting nauubos, o ng liwanag na lumalaban sa dilim, o tutubing walang direksyon. Tara na, samahan mo ako. Padayon!”
 
I stepped on the escalator, took my jacket off, and walked few steps as I made my way out of the door. It was for me just another afternoon, or so I first thought. I thought it was just another end of my shift where the moment I stepped out of the building where I worked, is a taste of freedom, a refreshment of a tired body. I thought I would just cross the street with equally bored and tired climbers of the corporate ladder to hail a bus that would bring me home where I would then force myself to sleep. I was wrong.

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