A Thousand White Kites Over Katipunan

I woke up today at 1 in the afternoon. I'm probably not a morning person. I'm not yet sure about that. But I'm sure I'm definitely not an afternoon person. Whenever I wake up after lunch, my day is ruined. The rest of the day just drifts by. It's like I just missed the bus of life and it's zipping by me.

I'm a zombie when this happens.
A drifting zombie.

I overheard an A.M radio host talking about the Wowowee stampede. I scanned the newspapers and a few blogs. I read a few eyewitness accounts. I looked at the pictures. It was terrible. It was sick.

I would have gone crazy if I was there in my zombified state. Sixty dead people who just wanted to get in the studio and have a slim chance of winning a million pesos. Casualties of desperation. It was depressing. It was twisted.

My world slanted a few degrees to the left.
A drifting zombie on a off-key world.

I was asleep when it happened. I was asleep when people were being crushed to death. They were probably tired and drowsy, waiting in line for hours. And then the stampede.

Is this what people are when it comes down to it? A herd of morons who'll trample anything to get what they want? Didn't anyone see what was happening and rose above the situation? How could anyone just keep on going and not stop to help the people they're stepping on?

I'm angry. I'm so angry. How could they do this? But most of all, I'm angry becuase I could have been there. And I could have been in that crowd. I could have stepped on those people. Why didn't anyone rise above the situation. Why didn't anyone show me that people can be good no matter what happens to them? Damn Social Psychology!

I'm an angry zombie in a twisted nightmare.

I went to the Prince David carinderia to eat breakfast. I needed a grip, an anchor on reality. A bowl of their beef steak on rice should do it. They were out of beef steak. How could they run out when I needed it most? I settled for tortang talong.

So, I sat and ate my tortang talong and drank my C2 green. And I looked out towards Katipunan. The sky was the shade of blue I liked and the smiling moon was already on top. It was an hour past noon and the moon was on top. I looked around and what I saw made everything a bit better.

It was a thousand white kites over Katipunan.