There's really not much to talk about these rock islands in my home town of Diatagon, Lianga Surigao del sur, except perhaps its being unique.
I've climbed these rock islands before as a 12 year old boy. We hunted eggs of big brown birds we called "Lapay". We got more than a dozen eggs like the size of native chicken eggs, but their color were blue-green.
It was me who dared to pick the eggs on the top of the trees without fear. While hunted eggs, we were also secretly hoping to bump on some "Yamashita Treasures".
Those adventures were priceless for me. I'm not sure if I can ever climb these rock islands again. Its about an hour of walk in rocks, muds and sands with chances of getting stung by sharp sea urchins' torns. Or worse, by a venomous stone fish.
But at the back of my mind, I know I will find time to climb these rock islands again. Not just to take selfie in there but to revisit the "child" in me who onced climbed it for adventures sake.
Maybe I can also reflect in there, if the dreams I onced had as a child were realized or not. Because as far as Im concern, I'm a bit lost and not very sure were Im heading. All I know is that, I'm consumed by desires to chase fortune and fame that has nothing to do with living in peace and happiness.
If I look happy in my pictures, they aren't that deep happiness. Because worries and anxiety are always there. Fear of losing material things and love ones are just lurking in the dark alleys.
For now, I can take shallow happiness one day at a time. But long term plan includes climbing these rock islands and exploring nature as man with heart free from desires of material things and mind free from worries and anxiety.
Because my heart and soul belong to the country sides, to the hills and valleys, to the rivers and seas and to the people with pure hearts.
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