Yesterday once more

September 4, 2021

A life of a farmer is never been easy but we never acknowledge their difficulties and how they contribute to our life. From the food we ate, the clothes we wear and more. Imagine a country without farmer, who would have plant the rice you bought in the store? How about the vegetables and the meat? Who would have taken care of gradening and poultry supplies? Is the rich people do this themselves? Or they need farmers to cultivate their lands and take care of animals?

It's the farmer, yes. The poor who are always looks lowly to rich people. The poor farmer who live their life burnt in the sun. The farmer who never had the same opportunity as everyone. Why did I say so? Because I am one of those farmer and I am living this life up until now. If you are a farmer like me then we are on the same boat and you could relate to what I would share today. Though my story for today isn't about the fate of the farmer nor how the riches treat them but it's about my experience as a farmer and how I love, and enjoy living it. I'm sorry for a bit strong introduction, it maybe due to the backpains I experience right now while writing this. Lol.🤣 Okay, so much about that. Let's continue.

I live in the province and our livelihood is farming. Planting rice, coconut farm, gardening, planting corn and crops like potatoes, taking care of livestock, poultry and lot more that a farmer could manage. We all experience those job as a farmer and I am proud of that. I am proud of my father who manage to provide our daily basic needs and send us to school. Since this is the job that keep as alive it runs to my blood and I learned them by heart. So, even if I finished my Bachelor's degree I still wanted to do the job that I used to do because I missed them from time to time. Since today my sister asked me to accompany her to the coconut farm that his husband inherited from his parents, of course I say yes and join them. She actually asked a favor to me if I could help them and since I missed doing it, without hesitation I said yes.

We went to a nearby coconut farm, just a 15-20 minutes walk. It's not that huge and so the coconut that they harvest aren't that many. Our task is to put the coconut out from its shell since they already cooked it in the fire.

While doing the job, we enjoy sharing memories in the past doing the same job as this. We laugh because of the funny memories that we remember and cry because of the smoke. I really missed doing this kind of job and I enjoyed it so far. I realized that when you really get used to do the task because you've been doing it since before you would really missed doing it. It's tiresome yes, there's no job that is easy but the joy it brings that bring back memories from yesterday makes my heart leaps for joy. It's a thing that cannot be exchange something from this world and could not buy. It's also a joy that eases from all the tiredness that I feel.

We finished all the work almost five in the afternoon. As we went home we pass through the neighborhood and would not believe seeing me all dirty and messy from the farm and carrying the woods. One of them told me, "You shouldn't have to do such job because you are already a teacher. It doesn't suits you anymore."

I answered saying, "Nah, I can manage I am already used to this job (smiling) this is what I used to do. Plus I am bored in the house this is good than doing nothing at all."

I wasn't surprised anymore because it's not the first time someone told me those lines. But I guess the question that was lingering in me everytime I hear those line is this, "Is having a degree or course makes me not qualified anymore to do the job that I used to do such as farming? Does farming makes me unprofessional if I still do it after acquiring my degree? Is it really necessary for me to forget the job that made me of who and where I am today? Or does acquiring professional degree makes you forget who you are before?" These and more questions pop up in my mind everytime I hear those lines my neighbors would tell me.

But then all my answer to those questions is NO. They could tell me what to do but they couldn't force me to comply the things they expect to see from me. What is the matter if I do the same job even though I acquire my degree? I am not ashame of it. I am proud of whatever I had before. I am proud that that I am a farmer because farming is the one that takes me to where I am today.

Dear friends, never forget where you coming from. And never forget to look back to the people or things that become the reason of where you are now. As the well known saying goes, " a person who doesn't know how to look behind couldn't reached their destination."

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