Sunday with full of love, another week of job well done. Hopefully everyone had a great morning, some of us went to church while some attended online mass. I came up with the verse;

"For it is you who light my lamp; the Lord my God lightens my darkness"

- Proverbs 18:28

This means that we should not be afraid of darkness as there's the Light; our Lord our God. He will serve as the love in all the hatred, the hope in all the discouragement, and solution in all problems that we have.

Yesterday, I read Sis Jramona's post about her two sisters, in which she discussed their favorite childhood activities. This reminds me of those times when I used to play "Bahay-bahayan" too, but since I previously mentioned it in my first article, then I'll go with the candle.

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Even in the midst of the darkness, I remembered how precious every moment was when I was a child. As I observed kids now a days are irritated when there's no electricity, so different from the kids before. Can you recall your neighbor's reaction every time there was a brown-out/black-out? We can actually get more precious reaction on this every night, when the electricity back again everyone in our neighbors are clapping and you will hear children shouting "There's an electricity!" It was like you're the hero is you are first one who inform everyone that there's already an electricity.

Now, I just want to highlights those things that we like to do when there's no electricity;

Playing with the shadow

Have you ever tried to make an animal out of your hand's shadow? This is one of our favorite games to play when there's no electricity. Birds and fish are the easiest to make. I have a friend who is quite skilled at creating animal shadows, whereas another friend is unable to do so appropriately; as a result, they will end up fighting. Aside from that, we enjoy dancing and seeing our movements in the shadow. If you've seen the El Gamma Penumbra on Asia's Got Talent, you'll see that we're aiming to be like them.

Story Time

Just like most of us who likes to share and listen to stories I also like to do this with my friends.

We like to gather in our house, we have this friend who have a mini sari-sari store and it's his task to bring candle. Did you know that we also have this attendance checking everytime we do this? Yes, and it's me who hold the attendance list. We put candle at the center and start to share some stories, until we end up with horror stories, my favorite part.

Abacadabra

Who is in here experience to be a magician using candle? Because I'm one of it. Another friend of mine who shows a magic trick, we make a circle and he is the one at the center with this candle. He then passing his index finger in this burning part of the candle and said "Chada! No pain! ", and we was like "wooow!" while clapping at him. Everyone of us tried it, and so happy with the magic trick. Now I realized that one second fire is not enough to feel the pain.

Experiment Time

Since the kid's imagination is so wide, me ans my friends made some experiment too. What we like to do is dangerous, but we tried to burn different kind of plastics just to observe how it works, and what we like the most is the stick of lollipop, the way how it melt and give drops is so satisfying. Another one is shaping the melted part into a new one. Lastly, we drops the melted part of candle to the water.

On the other hand, if we look at the other side of life, we can see that there is beauty in everything; perhaps you're currently preoccupied with darkness, but remember that even if there is only a small candle to serve as a light, you should try to make use of it and do things that will make you feel better. It's not so much about the situation as it is about how you respond to it.

We tend to focus on the darkness of problems and struggles in life, without appreciating the light that can serve as our guide through happiness. But then, still our choice to imprison ourselves with darkness or to make the use of candle.

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February 27, 2022

-Ling