Catch Me if You Can – fly, fly, fly the dragon fly

Right now, I am 22 years, three months, and 20 days oldJ. I just got inside the house of course I’m from the outside because I played with my niece Aiah, he is three years old. While I was after him he asked me to catch a dragon fly while he was riding on his cute little blue bike. As I was trying to catch one I’ve noticed that there’s some things I can do easily when I was a year older at his age than now that I’ve grown up, and one of it was catching a dragon fly. I remember when I was young, in the farm of my grand father, me and my elder brothers used to catch a maximum of two dragon flies each of us, holding it on their wings using the thumb and the index finger, one on the right hand and another on the left hand. And when we’re trying to catch one and we don’t like one of us to catch a single we sing “tutube, tutube huwag kang magpahule sa batang mapanghe” (it’s funny when I was reminiscing it.) I don’t know how to sing it in English but it means ‘dragon fly, don’t let the child that smells like pee to catch you.’ Now that I remember it, its kind a weird because they actually don’t smell like that, just to tease probably. I always like the blue dragon fly since I thought before that they are rare, but actually not, and braver than the green one. After catching it, since our hand are naturally oily the wings of the dragon fly sticks with our finger, and when you try to free them and let them fly, they will not because, maybe, their wings are heavy or something like damaged. When we are tired of holding them, we will get a string, the one that usually used in clothes, and tie up its back, I don’t know how exactly they call it because we’re not after studying its parts but we call it tail. Then we will put it on a plant and watch them try to fly, when they do we pull the string and put them again on the plant. And when we got bored we hold them again on their wings make them kiss and made them eat each other. I know what you’re thinking, yes, we’re somehow brutal but I think dragon flies are cannibals in the way that they eat their own kind… evil LOL… Sometimes when we are not in the mood of doing that we pick any kind of leaf or flower then we feed the dragon flies, that’s the boring part because they won’t eat until their heads got twisted and dislocated from their body because of too much force we put upon pushing the leaf to their mouth repeatedly. And now we’re bad… After doing things like that we let them fly but the dragon fly can’t because they’re half dead… T_T so sad…

After telling that story of how we play with the dragon fly, I’d rather not to catch one again because: first, as of now, I can’t and it’s hard to do so, its kind a awkward as well; second it might lessen their specie , I’m afraid that, maybe, the time will come that I can’t find a single dragon fly in our backyard; third, now that I’m older I feel pity for them so I’ll just let them as free as they are.

Trying to do things like that now that I’m considered as young adult, it made me remember my childhood, it made me realized that there were things you can do and can’t do when you are younger as well as you grow older. Though you can try to do it again, there were things that cannot be as good as before and the way it was done. The only thing remains is the memories of how you made it in that time of your life.

A Thing I hate the Most and like for the First Time

All of us have something we really hate, some are insects, repellents and the like, some are sort of foods, some are dirt and disgusting things such as blood and all of it has reason on their own. But me, what I hate the most is being sick. I hate having flu, cough and colds with fever and not to mention the headache and the sore throat… ughhhhh…. Join force all together to make you feel really bad. It isn’t just because of the pain and the hardship of breathing it may provide but the biggest thing is whenever I’m sick I just have to take care of myself because no one will be bother to do so but me. I still have my parents, but neither of them will do because my father is working in his shop, I know that he care so much but he can’t leave what he’s doing, it’s also for us. He has to work hard for us to survive. Oh, I forgot to tell you, there are nine members of the family, two parents and seven childrenJ. About my mother, well, I don’t know if she care as much as my father but sometimes instead of taking care of us she just nag on us saying: it’s your fault, it’s because of what you eat blah, blah, blah... it’s because of this, it’s because of that… uh… whatever. But one time, I feel very happy because I’m sick. I never thought that being sick will make me feel happy. I was actually touched by the deeds. That time, I was on my grand mother’s house, lola Emy the sister of my mother’s mother, she has a daughter and she was my aunt named tita Nikki. That day I feel really bad, and the only thing I want to do is to go home and took care of my self. I want to be in my bed alone because that is the usual thing I do when I was sick, lying in my bed waiting to get well after taking some medicines. Lola Emy told me to lie at tita Nikki’s bed, that afternoon I got worst, I can’t stand up anymore, I have high fever, my temperature is rising and I have hard time breathing. I should feel sad and lonely but I don’t feel that way. Though I was really sick and half asleep, I felt that something was putted on my forehead, then it will be removed, then it will put again. I try to open my eyes to see what’s going on. As I open my eyes, I saw tita Nikki beside me and putting a wet, I don’t remember if it is cold or warm, white towel on my forehead. At that moment, that was the first time that I like being sick and be sick for longer time, because usually, I want to get better as soon as possible. Crazy, isn’t it? But that was the first time I felt how glad a person is when he/she was taking care of somebody/someone. I think I’m lucky having that experience, though it’s really rare to happened, I was still waiting for it to happen again, maybe not with the same person but the important thing is they’ll show you that they care. So let’s show our concern to our love ones, big or small thing don’t matter, but one thing for sure, they’ll be happy knowing that you care.