Image Credit

It’s the 3rd day of February and with 3 months away from the national and local elections guess who are restlessly moving around the Philippine countryside.

Pedro: Juan, Tinoy had a problem with his carabao because it wouldn’t eat and appears sick.

Juan:  That’s strange, the last time I heard about my neighbor having the same problem it made him think of creative ways to treat the problem.

Pedro: What do you mean “creative” Juan? Did he finally made his carabao feed on grass afterwards?

Juan: Of course, you will laugh if you will know what he did but it was effective.

Pedro: So what did he do Juan?  Don’t try to make up some tricky jokes again.

Juan: Of course I’m not joking but it was funny. He made up some “customized” shades for his carabao with a tint of green. So everytime he brought the carabao to graze, it looks at all the foliage in the field  in the shade of green so it had all the appetite to feed.

Pedro:  That’s funny but of course if it works, it’s worth a try. I am just amused thinking how that issue applies to our present situation.

Juan:  What do you mean, our “present situation’, Pedro? Could you specify?

Pedro: Of course, I mean our country’s situation facing the elections. With mounting problems about our economy and national debt, it amuses me how politicians take it like another opportunity to feast upon and run again for any government position like the national treasury had never ran out of reserves.

Juan: That’s the first time I hear you say that Pedro. Well of course our country hasn’t been any greener than the past years. Then these politicians will surely be prone to swear again and make us believe they could make it far greener than we often think it isn’t.

Pedro: So what could be in their minds, Juan? Of course they couldn’t make us wear designer shades in the tint of green so we could have the appetite to vote for them this coming month of May.

Juan: That’s what bothers me Pedro. What I’m sure is if it’s not going to be in the shades of yellow, it will surely be in the shades of blue, just an option between another longer lasting misery and barely a day of ease having some amount to pay for an empty stomach.

Pedro:  Absolutely, Juan. As it often happens, the promised greener pastures become as just dull as it used to be and men who come out of the office after the term has turned into “Green Men” instead.

Juan:  They could either be “Green Men”or  “Grin Men”, Pedro. You see as the rest of our country will be left in remorse afterwards with our faces drooping down to contain our frown, they will be surely there in their safe havens making that silly grin in their utmost splendor twice the way we see them smile when they were just campaigning.