How do you catch up with many events happening at the same time?

When one is younger, the world is out there to be conquered. When one gets older (and older!), the world is all over you, presenting so many events at one time, you are left breathless and confused how to go about all these realities. Thanks to some kind of wisdom, the world can be left in one corner and prioritize at least in mind.

The aforementioned is an attempt at focusing on an observation: how does one catch up with many events happening all the time?

This must be the reason why some people engage in gardening. At the moment, Malaybalayan hopes to turn a 500 square meter lot to an organic garden. All the preparations that go into it especially the expenses that go with it can be compared to the many events in life that can take a lifetime to understand. Life is like a garden that needs caring, nurturing and loving. All it can become will give the gardener all the happiness that one feels when one gives her all for something worth the wait.

Events - what are some of these that can make you smile or make you sigh . . . Locally (here in Malaybalay for instance) Gaisano has invaded the place. While the forecast was that if it did come, all the small stores around and beside it will go to pieces, somehow the same small endeavors have stayed. Only time will tell for how long. The same forecast was alluded to the residents, that the people will all go to Gaisano and nowhere else. For a time, the people flocked around it for it is a huge structure and there are many options to choose from. However, this curiosity lasted only for a time and now people continue their lives without ever visiting the establishment, Malaybalayan included. What then is the event referred to? the invasion of multinationals even to the boondocks. 

Nationally (here in the Philippines) events change everyday what with the new administration of President Pinoy. The Senate is ladened with so many hearings that seem to re-live the many so-called scams that are labelled done in the past administration or sometime in the past.Surf the net for all these scenarios. The main point is that the ordinary filipino is troubled with the ordinary ordeals of life: dengue cases on the rise, prices of commodities always rising, family troubles that are the spice of life. What are the events referred to? the invasion of politics, economics into all the aspects of human living.

Globally, the most revealing is the situation of US economy. It is like making the giant feel what the small ant is going through. Again just surf the net for all the details. Then there is this sudden attack of young vandals right in the middle of London. Then there is Syria with all the protesters vs. the government army. We do not see it as much as we used to but Iraq  is still in crisis just as many other countries, Philippines included.

This blog seems to be one of the longest so far that Malaybalayan has formulated. It is already 3:11 in the morning but this piece is not yet done.

So how does one catch with the many events happening at the same time? Just to take it in stride like the garden that remains to be in the making and all the other realities that keep being relived by other mortals - for as long as we are still in this planet called Earth. Fortes in Fide.