A Lesson of Being a True Pinoy from a Snake
It is when I don’t expect much that I get favorable results.
Maybe it is just like turning on the ‘easy-to-please’ switch and the whole system downgrades
Pareng Dave gave me an ordinary retic that loves to bite
Normally, I would not have taken it
But I thought that it would be a pleasant change to have an ill-tempered snake for a pet since I’ve been used to docile ones.
It’s a welcome challenge, besides it’s free and I haven’t had a retic for quite sometime
Somewhere along that line I lowered my expectations
Needless to say, it paid
I love every bit –and I mean literally, and all the missed and attempted bites- of the little rascal
Now, that is a display of being a true Pinoy and I’m proud of it
My take on a given situation easily explains what the rest of the world considers a mystery, which is, that amid deep crisis Pinoys still rank relatively high on the list of happiest people in the world.
Expecting very little and receiving slightly better is…priceless
Mababaw ang kaligayahan
That explains why developed nations, like the
US , have a very busy judiciary
People expect much from each other, thus, easily provoked into taking legal action at the slightest shortcoming.
Pinoys wouldn’t think twice showing their wide grins in front of news cameras because if not for the erupting volcano their ‘15 minutes’ of fame wouldn’t have been possible
…MALUPIT !
