Random Thoughts

The days have been passing pretty quick. Thea's been out of the hospital for a while now. I don't even know what day it is right now... It's Wednesday. She got out on Sunday. Things seem to be going well, healing-wise. And things are moving.

There's just a whole lot going through my mind these days. I've been sick and it hasn't been fun. The medicine doesn't work, I've had a headache the size of Russia for three days straight now, and advil doesn't do jack.

Other than that, just pretty random things, like how the world is so evil. But then I thought about that for a little bit more, and I realised that this world is actually a very beautiful place, it's the people living in it that's giving it such a bad name. I'm not saying everybody, but you know who I'm talking about. The kind of people who don't care what kind of pain they inflict on other human beings. The kind of people who only care about themselves and no one else.

I've been thinking about the people in my life, the people that I know who meant more to me in the past than they do now, for whatever reasons.

I think it's just all been about life in general. I've been trying to write this thing (not THIS thing), about what I've been through in the last four years of my life, and it's coming out slowly, a work in progress, I might say. Eventually it'll be done, but exactly when, I couldn't tell you.

I've been trying to read the unabridged version of "Don Quixote". I started it about... maybe over a year ago, and then I stopped because it wasn't captivating enough for me at the time. So I've picked it up again, last month, and I've stopped again. I wonder if I'll ever finish it. I'm trying to, but I'll let you know when it's actually become a fact that I've read through the hundreds of pages from beginning to end. I'm optimistic.

So that's it. Enough blah blah for now.

Unbelievable

Just when you think that life has thrown everything that it possibly can your way, and you've overcome your hardest obstacles and think that maybe from here on out, everything will be okay, it just sneaks up on you, tricky little life, and shoots you. Or, in my case, shoots my sister... right up the leg.

I wish I were kidding, but this is no joke. On Wednesday morning, my sister and some of her friends were hanging out at Venezia, or V Bar over at Makati. From what I know, a couple of fights had already broken out between all groups of people there. Things were getting out of hand, and just as they were about to leave, some guy just starts shooting his gun at everybody. Thea was hit, and so was her friend Mary, and a couple of other people. And one of their friends died.

Thea was shot in the upper right thigh. The bullet had gone through her bag and the contents of it, as well as through her cell phone, which most probably saved her life. She was immediately brought to the hospital, and they were going to operate on it to take the bullet out, but it had entered at an angle and so if they attempt to remove it, there's a chance that she could lose all feeling in her leg because the bullet is in a nerve area. So the bullet stays in, and hopefully her body will not reject it. Otherwise, they will have to operate.

Mary's hit was much worse. The bullet entered her left shin, it hit the bone which caused it to shatter, and then the bullet made it's exit. She has to undergo major surgery, and they're gonna put pins and metal in her leg to reconstruct it, but she's not gonna be able to walk for the next six to nine months.

It's crazy how one person's actions can affect so many others' lives. Nevermind if it's in a positive way, but this is not positive at all. So we're hoping for the best. We hope that the shooter gets caught and that he gets what he deserves. We're praying for a good recovery for both Thea and Mary and the other victims as well.

That's all that I can say for now.