Why Now?

It's been a while since November 1 and I've only got to go deep in the subject only now.

Through some long random thought process, I got to remember the thoughts I had on that day of cemeteries, candles, prayers, and glowsticks. There was a number of things I noticed during this festivity of the dead.

The prayer were growing more and more quieter. The flower were growing less in size and number. No one seemed to bother anymore about the dead. Frankly, I can't blame them.

The prayers just seemed like a set of repeating patterns of code. Useless, repetitive, meanigless.
The flowers just seemed like an invitation for graverobbers to steal some from your graves. I have some relatives who fixed up some tombstones of some of our dead. It looked great. During the first year. By the next November, it's lighting was pulled out, the chandeliers were stolen, and all the glass was broken. Graverobbing 101. By the next November, the metal was sawed and probably sold to some junkshop, the giant lock we used to keep the place safe was also welded out. You could still see the shard of the welding implement. Now the place has the lowest quality lighting which only turns on during the first week of Novemeber. It's sockets were all pulled out. Technoically, what's to steal if there's nothing there. The metal was allowed to rot. Who would steal rusted iron.

In our efforts to keep our relatives respected, we open ourselves up to theft. To solve the latter, we open ourselves up to the former. It's a cycle of detox just to retox.

If you really want to respect the dead. Give flowers to them on their death bed, when they can still smell the flowers. If you want to pray for them, make it so that they can still hear you. If you want to respect them. Do it while they're still alive. a truckload of tears for the dead is nothing for an ounce of love for the living.

And can someone make sure all the cemeteries are well-protected. The gossips of graverobbers is getting repetitive and boring. Shoot the graverobbers if you will, baka multuhin pa sila kung ipagpatuloy nila un.