One I've Been Missing (Little Mix Series #6)

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The Flying Ball

Money holds the power of everything.

If you have money, you would have power to do anything. If you don't have, then you're at a disadvantage because the circulation of this world was all about money.

How would you be able to eat without money? How would you be able to build a house without money? How would you be able to go to a school without money? How would you be able to pay your bills without money? How would you be able to protect yourself without money? How would you be able to love someone if you don't have money to bring him on a date? In short, how would you be able to live without money?

Money was important in our daily lives and it could do everything. Money could buy everything and even save you when your life is at risk.

However, someone told me before, "Money cannot buy you happiness." Which I strongly disagree with.

Of course not! Money can buy happiness.

Saan mo nabili 'yang mga designer bag mo? Saan mo nabili 'yang cellphone na ginagamit mo? Paano ka nakakakain ng masasarap na ulam? Paano kayo nakapag-date ng jowa mo sa mga restaurant o nakapunta sa mga amusement parks?

Dahil sa pera. Period. Kailangan natin ng pera kasi pera ang kailangan para mabuhay.

Money makes a person productive. Hindi kasi basta-bastang madaling makuha ang pera. Kailangan din minsan nating magsipag at gawin ang mga bagay sa ngalan ng pera.

Sa pera kasi, sasaya tayo at mabibili ang mga gusto natin. So most of us start from small businesses and ended up in a stable environment, buying things, owning things because of perseverance and hard work. At lahat ng iyon ay dahil sa pera.

Ngunit . . . ngunit . . .

"Magbe-bake kayo mamayang hapon. Please ready all your ingredients and finish it later on five. And pay 5 pesos."

May mga taong ang hilig mambuso para lang sa pera. Like our TVE Cookery teacher Ma'am Flores, a spinster.

Nanggulat lang siya kanina at lahat kami ay hindi ready since it's the last week of our classes. We were expecting na wala na kaming gagawin at hindi na papasok sa kaniya pero pinatawag niya ang isa sa amin kanina. Pumasok din kami sa kaniya alas-nuwebe ng umaga. We were not yet complete but almost all of us were attended.

She took advantage of us early in the morning. Ke-aga-aga nambi-bwisit. She had already done it countless times and we were so unlucky with her.

Madamot sa grades. Hindi pinapakain ang mga luto namin sa TLE niya. At minsan, nagpapagawa lang siya sa amin ng mga unnecessary tasks.

Kagaya ngayon, magluluto kami. Last na raw. Palagi namang last na lang pero ito, naulit na naman. Magsasara na nga pero nagpapagawa na naman ng mga bagay na hindi na namin dapat gawin.

At akalain mo, magbabayad pa kami ng limang piso. Noong tinanong namin kung para saan, wala kaming sagot na nakuha. She just leave us and let us decide what to do.

Kaya ito kami ngayon sa market place, kasama ang dalawang kaibigan kong babae na si Mariane at Mikaella, at ang dalawang lalaki na kaklase namin na sina Joe at Lavin.

Nakasimangot kaming lahat habang hinihintay namin ang ingredients. Ang mga cashier naman sa loob ng stall na binilhan namin ay napapatingin sa gawi namin habang naglalagay ng mga pinangbili naming ingredients sa paper bag.

Siguradong pag-uusapan nila kami mamaya kapag mawala na kami sa mga landas nila. Pero sino ba naman ang hindi mapapasimangot sa pang-bi-bwisit ni Ma'am Flores? Wala na nga kaming klase kasi magtatapos na rin ang school year tapos hindi pa sa amin mapupunta ang luto namin.