We left Tokyo for Manila on Saturday morning. Pristine asked me over and over again when will all the plane riding will end so I promised her, two plane rides more and then we’ll stay put for 10 days and just relax and fly back to Japan again. 
We arrived in Manila around noon and immediately went to the hotel. Our flight to my parent’s house is scheduled on the next day yet so we always have to stay in Manila for a night. On our way to the hotel, I was bombarded by questions by my young daughter. Why are there people selling things in the street? What are those kids doing under the heat of the sun? The sight of street children peddling all sorts of stuffs always spark curiosity among foreigners, young or old. There is an estimated fifty to seventy thousand street children in Metro Manila alone. It’s been 12 years since I left the Philippines but they still remain to thrive in the streets, gambling their young lives and that sight always break my heart whenever I go back to my birth country.
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Life in the West is more often than not, an artificial picture of what is really going on in the world. Thank you for the reminder of how absolutely blessed we are.
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Yes, seeing this poverty and how it creates this climate of street children is hard to imagine for anyone who has never seen it.
Hugs to you and Pristine!
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I got distracted by all of the plane flying you said you still had to do.
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If you ever leave the large town you live in, go out in the green and meet people that are not in the rat race, only then you can truly learn about the real life. Not money, but being with and for other people is that what makes us happy. Those who don’t understand this will never enjoy true happiness.