Rowdy, populous and simple – words that best describe what is like to be in our community. It may not be the best but we can be the best in our own ways. Smile flashes in our face but the difficulties in life were crept into our eyes. Just like any other typical barangay around Quezon City, most of the people in our community are facing a hard time on finding their peace of mind because most of the residents here are not aware that they sometimes distracting the tranquiity of their neighbors. Despite of the roaring sounds of community issues, the true essence of being one as a community will still be the loudest.
Rowdy. As you enter the gate, shouting voice of moms will welcome you. It usually happens in the morning, yelling, “Hoy, gumising ka na, tanghali na.” There you are, still in your pajamas, will have no choice but to buy yourself a piece of pandesal that you will dip in your hot chocolate drink. Afterwards, you are left alone in your house, meaning you are tasked to do the household chores while your mother is already having her morning chit-chat with kumares. Soon after, the crying noise of your younger siblings will echoed your house, saying, “sumbong kita sa kuya ko, sumbong kita sa ate ko, bayaran mo ‘yan.” Yes, that will be your morning theme song.
Populous. Outside the house, you will come across narrow streets. Narrow as you can imagine that only one person can pass through, also known as, ‘eskinita’. It is highly possible that it exists in our place, especially that our population is constantly growing. Growing population as the morning theme song will be high up in volume. Having siesta is not our thing. Kids are still scattered along the streets. Some are playing, some are having ‘kiddie fight’. So as their mothers, some are playing bingo, some are having a contest, which chismis is the most worthy. Nevertheless, the line, “uy mare, alam mo ba, yung anak ng kapitbahay mo, buntis na raw, nako iniwan pa ng tatay,” will be the most recently played in the playlist of chismis.
Simple. Now, grab a chair and observe. Look around and you will see the life we have in our barangay. You can clearly hear the rough noises caused by crowd. But when you look deeply, our houses, our surroundings and our living, shouting the one word we treasure to have. We may not have the expensive and extravagant design of houses, the well planted plants along our streets and the high-end life that others have, we still have the most simple living yet most of us wished to have.
We are deaf for the negative judgments of other people but we never cover our ears for our neighbors and fellow community members. We open our eyes wide enough to see each other’s conditions and never played innocent for the wrong things we have done. We willingly and open-heartedly support each other for the benefit of the majority. We use the noise we create to shout our music of unity that we are proudly to play for everyone to inspire and have their own version of being harmonious community just like ours.
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