I'm just really wondering why there are humans like this. Humans wherein they're getting bored of their own life and they tend spread their boredomness or should I say toxicity to other people. Even though those people are doing nothing against them. Even though those people are leaving peacefully and don't want any trouble. But it seems that these kind of people will never be extinct in this planet. It's just awesome that their kind is multiplying very fast.lol.
The purpose of this article is to vent out what is inside me right now. Actually this was last night emotions but I don't have the feeling to write it up so here it is. Please bear with me through out this article.
Is it really hard for those neighbors to respect their neighbors also. Is it really that hard to supress their jealousy towards us. In the first place we're not rich so why they get jealous on us. Is there any point in what they are doing to us. Is it really fun to downgrade others and see them bleed. All of these questions are for them but I can't ask them because I know that their minds are just filled with stones and not a brain open for peace.
As you read in my past articles that our neighbor burned something near our house and that cause a huge fight between our families. That incident also brought us to the barangay in order to settle the matter but it ended up in the police jurisdiction so our neighbor agreed that he won't bother us again in any way. All I thought is that it would proceed smoothly but it seems that it's just a dream after all. It didn't proceed smoothly for they are just doing what seems to be fun to them and I really don't like it.
Also I got to know what they did back then when we don't have yet lights in our house. I was not yet born back then so I asked my grandmother what was their relation back then. Why is it really bad this time then my lola told me the start of it.
Back then when we don't have yet light because we don't have our own electricity , we used to connect to our neighbor's house to light up our bulbs. There's an agreement between us and it really work smoothly. The connection lasted for how many years until their treatment towards us changed. In one night, our house was very dark, has no light at all so my family back then used the gasera or the improvised lamp or Bur-ruung in Ilokano.
My lola thought that there's a power outbreak that's why we don't have electricity but as she looked outside and too see the houses of our neighbors, my lola was surprised because they had lights in their houses and our house was the only one in the dark. Lola new that there's something wrong so she told it to lolo to check the connection in our neighbor's house early in the morning. My lolo woke up so early in the morning to check the extension and he found out that it was unplug that's why we don't have electricity and lights back then. So he plugged it again in order for us to have electricity.
My grandparents thoughts that maybe it was removed accidentally but that incident happened again and my tito saw that it's not an accident why it was been unplugged. Tito said that they unplugged it. The mother and her son was the one involved. My lolo was bursting in anger but my lola stopped him for she don't want to start a fight. Lolo calmed down. My family talked to each other that this must be stop for it not to cause any fight so they agreed that they will buy a pig , a female one to be raised and to be sold when it's ready.
They bought 2 piglets and raised it. Their food was not a problem back then because my father and tito was working on a cronstruction so two of them funded the foods for those piglets. The piglets grew into a fat pig and they sold it for almost 15,000 per pig so they profited a total of 30,000. That money was used to buy a electricity generator and to applied in a Electric Coopertive for us to have our own electricity.
The application was approved with the help of my lolo's friend who worked in the cooperative. His friend was also the one who did all the things to be done inside our house, the connectins and all. We are grateful to that friend of my lolo and that Old man is still kind to us even now.
The turn of events happened and finally we had our own electricity without the knowledge of our neighbor so when my lolo unplugged the extension in their house , they were really surprised and laughed hard. Lolo just ignored them then he walked away with a smile on his face. At night our neighbor are laughing hard because they saw our house very dark but when my lola switched on the lights, they became silent and I know that they've been slapped with the reality haha. I wish I was there before to see their faces. lol.
Since then they got jealous towards us because we just conquered the stage and had our own electricity. We also proved to them that we can stand in our own feet and disapproved what they said before that we can never apply in a cooperative. That was a silent battle my family has overcome and I know that we can overcome that again.
As my lola taught me to be always kind our neighbors and not just to them but to other people also. Be kind because it's a free thing to do so why not.
That ends my article for today and thank you so much for reading this far. I hope that your heads are filled with brains and not stones. See yah in my next articles and I really hope that all of us can coexist with out neighbors in a peaceful way.
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Love your neighbor so they say. Easier said than done but being at peace is better than being stressed out. But in a way, your neighbor did you a good thing, why? Because it made your family work harder, hence achieving something for your own good. And your neighbors being jealous now, don't mind them anyway. Just go on with what you do and let them be. Someday, they will realize their grievances toward your family.