Man is not Alone in Facing the Odds
Posted on Saturday, 21 June 2014
Man
is not Alone in Facing the Odds
By Apolinario Villalobos
It pays to always remember to take
everything with a grain of salt. Life is not always as rosy as any positivist
wants to look at it that way. There are always kinks along the way. And, the
best way not to lose patience is by taking life not so seriously, but of
course, with some reservations. In order to maintain our sanity in this world,
we have to be in synch with the realities of life.
Even the filthy rich have their own
problems, tons of them! One is how not to pay the appropriate tax so that they
can add the savings to their already fat bank accounts. Another is how to
surpass the wealth of others so that they are assured of at least any of the
first five slots in the annual list of the richest people on earth. Still, another is how to find a bank that
could assure them of utmost secrecy about their accumulated wealth. And, there
are many more….
At the other end of the scale, are denizens
of the slums, and who are faced with problems where to get another handful of
rice to be cooked into gruel for their starving children. There are kids who
can’t sleep nights in thinking of ways to augment their earnings from selling
scrap, so that they can buy another school bag and a pair of slippers or shoes.
Still others are teachers who cry to heavens for help so that they can redeem
their ATM cards from the hands of loan sharks.
If only the trees can talk and scream, even
them, would loudly protest the indiscriminate toppling of their kind by greedy
big-time loggers who gag the mouth of equally greedy local officials, and
agency officials with wads of peso bills. If only the earth could just even
belch in protest, they would be groaning in pain as illegal miners continue to
abuse them for their mineral deposits.
Yes, man is not alone in facing the odds…
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