Bumabagyo at bumabaha na sa buong Pilipinas magmemesage ka pa ng magpapa-like ng photo mo para beauty contest?!! ma-delete ka nga.
Straight from top glamour photographer Borj Meneses’ facebook account.
Yes, some people could be so self-consumed, so insensate, even in these diluvian times.
And the facebook is never wanting in showing the worst of them. Like one who uploads photos of what he’s having for dinner these wet, wet nights – fillet mignon, medium-rare, with sauvignon.
Or one who tags just about everybody about his new car. Another, his new shoes. Yet another her newly acquired signature clothes.
Beholding all those uploaded photos of our recent – August 4-7 – junket to Bangkok and Pattaya gave me some guilt feelings akin to one sensate being gorging on fried chicken in front of a starving family.
So shameful that I had to forego of my features on the trip for now and wait ‘til after the deluge has come to pass.
Kapit pa kapatid, lilipas to…KAKAYANIN NATIN TO!
And the facebook is never wanting too in inspiring messages to lift our spirits up these devastatijng times.
Like this gem posted by my seminary elder Verne Quiazon from far-away California:
Thinking and keeping a prayerful watch over the unfolding disaster in Metro Manila, in Pampanga and the surrounding provinces.
When the heavens open the clouds to rain down on earth, earth opens the heads, hearts and homes of people.
There have always been monsoon rains but now we understand that all the flooding is not the wrath of God but our own undoing.
The torrential rains are due to the climate changes caused by our profligate carbon emissions. The massive flooding is caused by all the garbage clogging the waterways and by the denuded mountains.
This is the Manila rendition of the karmic law: what we throw away eventually comes back to haunt (or reward) us.
With this new calamity will be another resolve to right these things.
With this calamity, we again open our hearts in generosity and caring for those severely affected. We kneel down in prayer, knowing we are part of the cause for the floods and pray for God’s mercy to now make the rains stop.
The very generous among us, and they multiply during times like these, will open their homes and pockets to share their resources with those who have lost theirs.
So shall ye sow, so shall ye reap.
