Comparisons are easily done once you had the taste of perfection… a famous line of Katty Perry in her song thinking of you. But this is not a review regarding her song but this is all about nature because once you had experienced an almost perfect environment you can easily criticize or say something about the place you are living in.

Almost perfect! This is how I can describe the place where I was raised; I always say that I am a proud “probinsyana” from Isabela a province of Cagayan Valley where you can see the longest mountain range in the Philippines which is Sierra Madre. Maybe this is because of the factor on how the Isabelinos are being trained even they are still young.

I remember when I was still in my elementary days, my teachers always asked the class to plant a tree in a black plastic bag, that was from grade one until grade six. So in my Alma matter I had six mahogany trees. Before I don’t really get the point why they are requiring us to do this activity every year I even told my teacher that our school will turned into a forest because of the hundreds of trees planted on it. But the good factor of this activity was step by step their students are getting aware of the status of the environment.

Compared here in Metro Manila, pollution was being spread all over; water, air and even the noises that is mainly created by humans… US HUMANS.

Before, we have a wide green field planted on it is rice, tobaccos and corns, agricultural crops that all of us are gaining but now it turned into a commercialized building, instead of tall trees we can see tall buildings, instead if clean and flowing water we can see stagnant black water with garbage floating on it. In this sense we can see we can see how people in Metro discipline their selves now a days, I am not saying that all of the people but let us all admit it there are SOME who always lose control in disciplining their own selves.
What if one day we will once again experience a super typhoon like the tragic ONDOY and PEPENG? At this point we must learn to change and that change is not tomorrow but NOW!


Dona Charmaine P. Delizo
BJ3 – 1d