The Happy Hoi PoLLoi By: Kerima Polotan Tuvera
The Happy Hoi Polloi:
“In the Luneta, all colors blend ‚ the brown and the white and yellow of people; the green and blue and red of shrubs. Towards the sea, the great sward stretches, and the globes of light hang like huge pearls, are caught in the waters of the lake. People flow by, stop and eddy, break and whirl again. Across the pond, a band plays; a balloon breaks loose from some child’s grasp and floats towards an early star. Here, the land lies flat and green, broken only by stone; there, it rises in a series of small hills that hide the curving tips of a pagoda. The doves come, cooing and beating their wings around a man, dressed in a tiger’s suit, and giving away candy. The lovers try not to be conspicuous. A family spreads the contents of a bag — kropeck, juice, biscuits. One mother lies on a mat, unashamedly nursing her baby. On other mats, men and their wives, kicking their heels at the sky. The park guards watch when they can but soon grow weary and give up. The sky is like a canvas washed clean, gray along the edges, and you think, looking over the heads around you, how distant the heat of living is — tonight’s dishes, tomorrow’s bundy clock. Joy is a fitful moment, but better that than nothing.”
Happy hoi polloi of kerima polotan tuvera illiustrates the Luneta Park and the wonderful creation of God. For me, park is a happiest place and a memorable place in a Filipino family because this place signifies the strong Filipino tight relationship in each other.
ReplyDeleteAs a future global educator, we have many responsibilities to do. We are actting as their second parents or guardins, so that like in the story or poem of HAPPY HOI POLOI, we have to teach them how to be a good student. how to love one another and how to appreciate the things that our LORD GOD gave to us. I want my future students to understand and to appreciate the value of things that surrounds them, the things that they always have and to learn how to be thankful in the things that they have. I want to view them the reality of life. So that in thge next generation as they have their own family they also teach their own children the wonderful things in our life, and to also remember me. :)