"I'm really sorry. Much as I wantd to, I can't come and mit you...I gotta' stop compromising myself and cut off with my husband..."
Her cellphone was bright-white with really big fonts enough to catch my attention as I sat on a dark jeepney bound for home. Yes, I admit being nosy reading a stranger's composed text message and noticing her staring far off and blankly past the shoulders of our co-passengers.
"oh..she must be married..and seeing someone else..perhaps.." I mused in half-innocent wonder... My passenger-seatmate appeared obviously troubled because she wouldn't give a damn of other passengers passing their fares off her.
Then I get to ask myself...that how many of us in this world are actually happy with decisions we make? And if we find that such were badly made, how many of actually get out of it and remain unscathed?...and others unharmed?
In such a time and space that I am in right now, I believe incidences of extra-marital affairs are actually very much alive like worts on a fat stone..oh, and yes...they're not just the thing silverscreen dramas are made of!
Though I could say that I am aware of its existence, I never thought I would still be left in a state of that half-innocent wonder and speechless shock when faced with real people who are into it.
Then after such a shock...the process of beginning to understand peculiarities of each one's human nature and the surrounding circumstances begin...
...ANd from there...I begin to realize...that the very instinct of being judgemental about other people would be actually "cured" or erased the moment you try to open your mind and ears and heart to someone caught in an unlikely situation which is vulnerable to disdain.
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