Diary of the modern hermit – 2/3/2022

Let the hermit persist, at least. She was not able to log her activities yesterday even though she has finally planned to chronicle her daily activities. Hence, she is persisting to publish this even if it is already late.

So the date of this log is for yesterday-2/3/2022.

On Thursday, Feb3,2022, the hermit woke up at not so early again in the morning but earlier than the previous days. She got her two red, small pails then thought of going for some exercise—that would fetching water repeatedly until she has had enough.

She went to the water source, originally a well, but they turned it into a pumping station. Manual pumping of water in order to get the precious element for so many uses. For taking a bath, washing kitchen utensils, flushing the toilet, etc.

But alas! The pumping station was in disorder. The machine isn’t working properly. When you pump, the water goes somewhere else instead of where it should go. We thought of fixing the thing up but the problem is, we do not have the right materials to do so. The right tool, rather. Our husbands happens to be away and we needed ‘man’ power.

When the people gave up on using the facility for the day, she persisted on remedying the situation just so she can go on with her exercise. She was able to at least do something and on she carried water to the house then back again to get two pails.

Later, she went back home to rinse the long overdue laundry and she had success with her chore.

Afterwards, she felt tempted to again go to the usual place where she could unwind and meet with some neighbors to talk just about anything that comes under their noses. Ah… The failure again to keep herself to herself, plan to herself, and money to her kids and to their budget.

She thought that the next day, she will be able to discipline herself into not going to gossip about other people.

She has spent her money on her children’s demands like biscuits, candies, and so on. Tomorrow, she will really tighten their spending. She forgives herself and hopes not to do the same the next day.

And so they extended their leisurely hours until past 8:30 in the evening. A good time for neighbors to notice that they aren’t doing the traditional thing of being inside the house already even before dusk especially that she has children.

Well, tomorrow will be different anyway. I will eventually change for the better, she thought.

By the way, she asked her eldest son to bring her food into the gossip place. Her child obeyed her in exchange for few good things. Junk things in actuality. She allowed that and so she ate at the outside. Her daughter got her other food, which was a nice sight for her. How nice of her daughter to eat. Her other son on the other hand, took a bowl of noodles. Not too good because she thinks that noodles isn’t that healthy. At least her daughter chose the beans.

She worked on eating what was left on her plate including rice, few stripes of noodles, and fried boneless fish.

It was a good day still. But she had a lot of reservations. She wanted to be as private as possible but she maintains that she does those things to get away from depression. But she also believes that she had to keep her life private. And lie low from prying eyes.

The next days will be for the better, she thought again.

They went home, Finally. After some sermon and hug to her children, she let them sleep and she also slept. One of the few nights that she slept earlier than usual. Probably why this article got published a day later. Composed and published a day later than the diary date which is 2/3/2022.

But then again, she persists of chronicling her life. It may not be perfect descriptions of her day to day activities but at least, she could go back and check the patterns if ever there should things worth changing.

So later this day, a diary for this day will also be published. This article is for yesterday’s.