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January 30, 2022

Hello everyone!!

Here I am again staring at this blank screen for about thirty minutes now. Thinking if I'll force myself to produce a 600 words article or if I'll just let the day pass by without publishing one. To make this staring at the screen more exciting instead of coffee I'm having a jack coke beside my laptop, hoping the creative juices will flow with the help of a little alcohol.

Wait, wait, wait, I'm not alcoholic ok? My brothers and my cousins are having their once-in-a-blue drinking session and I decide to have a cup. Yep, I used my coffee mug so it looks like I'm only having iced coffee. A half-full of jack and the remaining is coke.

Thankful to these wonderful people. Check them out they have great articles that you may want to read.

All of them have their work and it is only today that they find time to catch up with one another. I think one good thing about living in a compound with your relatives is this once in a while catching up. No need to get worried if there's anyone who has covid19 as most of us knows what's happening in every household. Not the Marites or Karen type of knowing what's happening in every household but we are open with each other if anyone is not feeling well. If there is someone who has a cough and cold it's automatic for us to isolate ourselves and inform everyone. In that way, we can easily trace whose in contact with whom and follow the protocol.

I grew up in this compound where everyone is looking after one another. During mealtime, you can see more than one dish on every table as each house shares its viand.

I guess this is where I learned to be generous, to be selfless, to be a giver, and to look after one another especially those who needed it.

I learned everything from this compound where I grew up. My parents teach us to respect the elders and to respect all kinds of people no matter what their status in life is. They show us how to take care of each other, and to share whatever we can share. That there's joy in giving more than receiving. They teach us to help those people who are in need. And the best thing that they taught us is to love one another. They taught us to fill in if there is a lacking with the other.

And even if most of the elders are now in that happy place, we still do all the things that they taught us and those things that we learned just by observing them.

I think that is also one of the reasons why there is no Maritess or Karen in our compound. Because no one showed us what's envy and jealousy were. Every family has their own share of the land where we are living and it is equally divided to every family. So, no reason for us to be jealous of one another. I'll be forever grateful to the elders even if they are now gone now especially to my parents.

Why?

Because they don't just leave us with material possessions but they also leave us with good manners and right too. They left us knowing that whatever happens, we will always be there for each and every one of us.

Lessons I learned?

It is better to teach and hone the young ones to be better people than shower them with earthly possessions that can be rotten over time.

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