RENEWAL

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By Vladimir Paat Villegas
IV - Isaac Newton


There was no place to go. It all seemed looking and going to nowhere and ending with no one. Chances to get and go with them might be that abundant, but everything was not good enough for no one could convince them no matter what was done. It was just like a fish out of water or an eagle at the bottom of the sea in this normal society.

What was really needed to do just to be written down in the pages of their history as a person who was worthy to have because of the results of the deeds?

Nothing happened. No matter how hard you hit the ball, it would never move. It was just where it was. It was just like having a quest you established to find a certain thing but really end up with nothing. They resembled such a mirage in a desert which anyone approached just to get frustrated and upset. It was not because of my extreme hunger for gold and glory, but all I wanted was contentment through equal treatment. As this man went back from his exile, nothing waited for him, even the only structure of his home.

They really forgot me because of what they did.

Why was the next destination nowhere and nothingness?

They were all just like the police whom they blamed as unfair and hired people. Their ears were just rusty tin pans which hear everything that came out of the ears of someone like me as a slander. They would just always stay “stand up for your right”, but they were the ones who took that right from a person who needed it more than them. All they did was just to abuse their right by bullying someone else and took everyone as their slaves and everyone against them as an outcast.

Was everything, even the things which could not be stolen as given by the One above, lost? This life, because of what they did, was nothing anymore for what they did was to murder the one who reached out.

Worst of all, why could I just not fulfill my totality?

It was not about the endless want to get more and more as time went by, but every expectation was just made for a bigger frustration. You would just want to shoot low because of what you wanted them to show, but no matter how high or low your expectations were, you would just end up with nothing. You would just get frustrated with them because what they gave you was not the one which you asked for. You could never reach through besides the things you do, as I told a while ago.

Why was that? Everything was just meant to be broken.

What was told was just too negative and cynical enough that you will want to hit your own head on the four walls of your own room than be friends with those kinds of people. I might just say that pessimism was everywhere for me because of what I underwent, but the next thing told me so much about the contrast.

People whom I never knew came along my way and told me “you are not alone”. They told me that everything needed was to establish a mutualism between us by being a part of them because they were parts of me. Without hesitation, I signed the contract and sanctified it with the covenant of the true friendship.

It took not that long until we were already sharing things as we never expected. We shared thoughts and had our minds opened for each other. They asked for nothing even if they let me lie down and have myself relaxed as I was under their medication. As I woke up, they were just the ones who contained my sight saying those words which I longed for to hear from someone else.

As I left and faced the world which I used to know, they did not bid goodbye, instead, they did pledge just as I did to them. They said that there will be no more hours to spend so alone by myself because they are beside me always. There is no need to fear anything because they will be the ones who will catch as I fall because of declaring and defending my own freedom from blindness.

Now, it is just six months after I knew them so much. There will be many more things to share, but I would like to thank them more in advance because they were the ones who helped me when I was so down in my own life.

They were just the ones who saved this poor soul before any harm, or even death, might come as unexpected. They were the ones who became the reasons of my renewal from the life I used to live.