Naririnig Ninyo Ba Ang Mga Sarili Ninyo?

Reactions of my friends to this post.  If this is a final exam ... an imaginative teacher will suspect my friends were cheating and copying from each other. 

For one ... the answers were almost identical ... they were exactly alike and the answers had some close resemblance as to be essentially the same. 

Their answers were short ... but you could feel some sense of regret, repentance, and disappointment that this was ... in actuality happening. Here are their open-ended comments

1. Reality Bites ...

2. Reality Sucks ...

3. A Harsh Reality ...

4. Reality Check Please ... 

5. A Taste of Reality ...

I don't blame them ... at all ... if they feel shame or guilt ... and remorseful. So pinag-tagpi-tagpi ko ang mga sagot nila to come up the seering opening salvo for this post.

The last time we had REALITY CHECKED ... was when we found out the HARSH REALITY ... that REALITY BITES and that REALITY SUCKS. When we were given a TASTE OF REALITY ... it was too late to find out that when REALITY HIT US HARD ... a man-made catastrophe again showed its ugly face ... resulting in the loss of so many lives.

We know the evils of deforestation firsthand (and sorry to say this includes illegal logging). It is a known fact that as we move on from our glorious past into the modern present, forests have been balded to make room for modernization and to obtain wood for housing, manufacturing, and fuel. Deforestation completely changed the topography the terrain ... and the landscape of the discussion and debate about its pros and cons have been muffled.

But there are glaring facts that could not just be swept under the rug ... what with the constant barrage of news of floods and landslides on TV. The ill effects of deforestation were placed on the front burner - global warming, disruption of water cycles, biodiversity loss, wildlife extinction, habitat destruction, soil erosion, acidic oceans, greenhouse effect ... and the most important is the thousands of lives lost in floods. fires, avalanches, and mudslides acting as collateral damages because of man's stubbornness ... and their unwillingness to acknowledge their sins of omission and commission.

Tapos maririnig na lang natin na nangangarap ang tao to plant trees in Mars ... the same activity that we frown at hindi natin ginagawa sa Earth?

How ironical! And hypocritical!