Let There Be Rain

Our country suffers drought for many months now. Many landed in hospital due to heat stroke. Many also suffer different kinds of sicknesses brought so much by hot environment like mumps, sore eyes, chicken pox and Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). It is advisable to always drink water and to even bring a bottle of water anywhere a person goes here to avoid UTI. At home, two members in our family already contaminated with mumps virus. My co-workers, many of them were contaminated with sore eyes. Too long drought now is not a joke. There is always fire in a crowded city. Rain is the only hope to minimize problems our country is facing with this time.

People here always clamor for rain. Every now and then, we look up the skies to see if dark clouds too appear soon .This is the usual sign of a rain to come dark clouds. If this drought in Philippines continues, most probably, our source of power or energy may turn dry and empty. Then what do we expect to happen?  We hope it won’t. What shall we do here? Climate change might be one cause of this very long drought. This must be given priority by the entire world to stop or even minimize calamities that always occur country to country.

Too much abuse of mother earth is another cause of the many sufferings of the world. Better in other countries, they have snow, so they can minimize their electricity and water bills. It is so scary here managing the long drought. Because of this long drought, we experience too marathon blackouts. When rain comes, this will be momentarily ceased. It seems rain is still far in the horizon. We are waiting for a natural rain not rain caused by storm, as what our country faces with year after year.

Many keep on asking, where is rain?