Can't Fall

In C.S. Lewis third book in the Chronicles of Narnia (The horse and His Boy), Bree (the horse) and Shasta (the boy) planned to runaway to the North and to Narnia...the perfect escape to their terrible lives. Bree asked Shasta if he could ride a horse. But of course, Shasta was not an expert. Being an errand boy all his life, he just rode donkeys. So Bree asked something like this question instead "If you can't ride, can you fall? Can you fall....and get up once again...without crying...and mount again without feeling afraid of falling again?"

So, that night when I was "room alone" and "house alone," I asked myself the same question. "Can I fall? Can I fall and get up once again?"

It finally dawned on me that, right now, my answer can't bring me to my own Narnia...

Buzzing flowerpecker saw some bird buggers on her way home

Fine, I don't own the aircraft and sure, I am in a public transpo. But how will my day start right if bird buggerS (with an intentional capital S) are on board? Just imagine, plus ten girls (actually, they seem thousands to me), with booming voice and American twangs, with pretentious giggles and heya-people-look-at-us attitude sharing overly premeditated conversations just to let everybody know theyhave money and they can afford escapades everywhere. They gave me a headache to bring home.

Bugger 1001: God, I hate cebupac (cebu-pak).
BF: Oh, please get out and get yourself a seat in PAL. Better yet, buy an airplane you could hate for the rest of your life.
Bugger 1002: Me too.
BF: you better explain, in english, why you say so. Otherwise, I would think that you just didn't have anything else to say.

Decades later...few minutes before we land.

Bugger 1001: (looks out the window and gasps) oh! there's so many mountain!
BF: I think I have to jump now... as in...out of the window.

Bugger 1001: how do we get to bugger 1007's house? horse?
BF: bad joke or simply, misinformation and ignorance.

After landing...

Bugger 1010: Airport's nice.
Bugger 1011: Bakit, ano ba sa tingin mo ang airport namin? (laughs)
Bugger 1012: pero di ba, yung sa dumaguete? Gosh, why are we comparing countries...hahaha...joke lang.... provinces?! (laughs)
BF: uhm...excuse me...can you...can you just go and list the provinces you really, really, visited? Outnumber mine and then I'll let you live.

I walked out the airport terribly bugged. But I drew a deep breath and poof...
I think have to forgive them.