sweepstakes

If I would win a sweepstakes I will resign in my current job. Buy a wide, wide area of land somewhere up in the mountain. Plant it with many different kinds of forest trees. Build a small hut. Plant some vegetables, corns, sweet potato, sweetsop, guayabano, mango, guava, and many other fruit trees.

I'll sit under the shade of wildberries and listen to the songs of the wind. I'll play with the clouds and stare at the blue ocean far, far down below. I'll fly with birds. I'll ride a carabao and cow. Play with baby goats. Chase the chickens. Collect spiders. I'll search the clear water of the creek at night for some crabs and freshwater shrimps.

I'll soak my face to the caressing touch of fresh mountain wind.

I'll run. And smile. And laugh. And laugh a little more.

I will enjoy life.

But then looking back, my life was basically just like that. My family did not win a lottery. We never had a land of our own. But life was so happy and carefree at that time. We never had to worry ourselves about pollution. We never had to worry about deadlines. About so many obligations. And stress. And pain. And all sorts of useless needs that human beings crave so much about at present.

I want to go back to that old time. I want to breathe again.