Aspalto ( Asphalt)

ASPHALT is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits sometimes termed asphaltum- WIKIpedia


Most of our roads here are made of asphalt, being in a country near the equator, imagine asphalt roads under sun's extreme heat... It is indeed a searing painful heat...

Tsinelas (slippers), imagine life without it, and walk across the extremely hot asphalt road.




... among my hopes for an ordinary day is as simple as , let me not fail in being an instrument of purpose, if there is an opportunity to help, let me be.

Tsinelas, it is a part of my spiritual and moral life, it is a little symbol of my personal advocacy.

Whenever i see a child walking along the streets bare footed, i do my best to help by buying him/her a pair of tsinelas...

So far, i havent seen a fat kid barefooted in the streets, barefooted children are always near to being malnourished, most are thin. It is quiet logical why.

Barefooted street children, hungry, dirty, some are selling things walk on the asphalt roads at the presence of a glaring sun, literally is suffering the searing heat of the road;

and when the weather gets inconsiderate, it will suddenly rain, from heat comes rain, while other people get inside their offices or malls or any establishment or take cover inside their cars, these children especially those children who sell something remain at the streets.

I would always pray that people would have enough even for at least covering their feet...

and so I write; to call, to admonish, to symphatize, to co-exist, to act, and shout TSINELAS PO!

if we have means, 30 pesos is enough to buy a pair of slippers at a nearby store. It is just nearly as much as 1 and a half hours of dota, 2 softdrink bottles (that later kills), a pack of cigarette that cripples the body system, and a bottle of beer that that gets our tummy bloated ill-figured;

yes only as much as that...



Tsinelas... our life too is like a tsinelas,

someday we will be worn and torn by the dirt and heat of life...

at least by the time our life has gotten to that point,

we will not be measured by the dirt we have,

but be measured thru the feet and souls we have sheltered...