Development to Destruction

As I woke up this morning, I went through the kitchen to prepare our meal and my baby's milk . While savouring the aromatic fragrance of a coffee and about to sip, I heard the banging sounds of colliding stone.

In my mind someone's throwing it. As I approached to sneak a peek at the window to inspect what exactly it was, I saw a man. He had picked up a pile of stones. Small and big stones he carried with his might to get it out from the canal.

Yay, I remembered last night it was a heavy rain and the whole town had encountered a power interruption. A minute passed by, the rain had stopped. I heard a noise came from outside.

A crowd from our neighborhood went out to inspect a very strong current of flood together with the sounds of banging stones at the other sides of the canal. It is very scary to watch the strong current of water.

It is very dangerous because if ever the canal would break down it could never hold the strong current of the water and it could lead to destruction.As if the rain would continue to pour heavily it would disturbed the whole town. But thankfully it stopped.

The canal wasn't just wider and deeper to hold the waters intact in its place. I also heard, at the topside of the canal it was already overflowed and it leaves so much worries to the store owners and other neighborhood.

As I remembered those things last night, I was so much saddened. Someone told that the cause of this flood was of the crasher company built there for months ago and the areas at the hillside and riverbanks had been quarried.

So I was so dismayed and my heart felt so much sadness. Why? Half of my mind was so happy and half of my mind so saddened. Why is that so?

At my early childhood, the road had not been developed yet. Everytime it rains, the residence of the town will pass through a muddy road and stones flushed together with the water. Garbage all over the place and our house was just at the level of the road.

People are always complaining for a swampy and muddy road they always encounters everytime they pass through.

And here comes the development, road has been developed into a cemented road, road has been lifted up and houses and stores has been down below the road. No swampy and muddy road at all.

But it cames the heavy rain. Houses and our stores are flooded, garbage are all around swimming like fishes in the sea, stones banging together with the full current of water at the narrow canal. Funny to think, a sight from below all I can see was the high cemented road. It was so secured with no amount of water running by.

We experienced how many times that our agrivet store has been flooded, appliances and groceries all over the water. I was pregnant at that time. And a sacks of feeds has been damaged. We are helpless at the moment, trying to recover all the things that might be used. I teared alot and almost fainted for help.

It was like a nightmare for us, everytime it rains so much we always pray that it wouldn't flood so much.

Nowadays, development are everywhere. Streets are almost concrete, you can see when you go to the mountain side you can see a well developed road. Almost everywhere roads are concrete. Development are everywhere you can see different buildings.

Industries are emerging so fast, there are lot of buildings, agricultural and name it everything you want is at hand. We can deny the fact that we are now in the high technologies,metallic and concrete world. Radiations are everywhere. Greenfields, tall mountains and tall trees are substituted with tall buildings. We can even buy oxygen.

I don't know if I would be happy to these developments we have right now.

What I want is to live simply. To sleep at night silently, wake up when sun rises. Eat three times a day, breathe pure air and die with the presence of Almighty.

I think it's enough.

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• Desclaimer: It's only a reflection of myself.

Photos are mine