i am happy----i saved another soul today.
8:00 pm
in my store
a girl bought pinaypay saging and one coke sakto.
i noticed she wore a lot of bracelets in her wrist.
a nose piercing.
2 ear piercings in one lobe.
these screams emotional problem for a girl.
so i started talking to her
asking her about her piercings.
she's short chubby
and talks like a she belonged to a gang
but she doesn't.
i kept probing until she opened up her problems to me.
nilayas diay siya for 6 months.
dili kuno siya ganahan sa iyang brother kay adikadik unya kulatahon siya pirmi.
and her father only stays in the house during saturdays because he is working.
her mother died when she was two. she's the youngest of 6 children.
she's been going to her friends' house to stay there and eat.
i asked if his father ever looked for her.
she said he is too busy working.
i asked her when is her birthday, she said tomorrow she will be 18.
I said ----somebody up there brought you to my store.
tomorrow you will be 18.
you are old enough to do what is good for you and your future.
you should go home tonight.
"what if my father wont let me in.?"
i said
im a father and i will never do that.
just go to your house and go straight to your bed.
tomorrow you will be a different person.
sure you think you have friends.
but when you get sick, no friends will pay your hospital bills.
sure they will visit you
but no one will take care of you like a family would.
friends come and go, but family ---they are stuck with you
----and you are stuck with them.
whatever problems you have, talk to your father.
tell him everything. i know he will listen to you.
she was silent for a while......
stood up... waved for a tricycle and shouted while riding.--"Thank you kuya!"
That just made my day.




