Sa Mga Mata Ni Ekang:Realidad ang Kaakibat

This Document is about a child who is in her 2 or 3 years of ages who happily plays and does the normal activity of her age. There’s nothing so special to her except for having a Father who is a Pedicab Driver in the morning and a holdaper in the evening. A Mother who is a prostitute before and now a drug pusher, a Grandmother who is a hostess and a "bugaw" and a 15 years old Uncle who already smoke, drunk and an addict in computer games like dota or counter strikes.
This people are the antagonist in the eyes of Ekang and in addition to that is their beloved little home which is being rented to be the shabu then of their buyers. And he little sister who is a month old.

Ekang is just a kid who already sees drugs and how to take it at her young age. She is always there whenever her mother and the buyer having a shabu sessions inside their house. This is not new to eking because she thought that it was just a game like what her grandmother told her.
Her Father loves her so much that’s why it really do anything just to fill her needs. If her income from pedicab Driving is not enough. He has own sideline in the night. He is holdapping someone along the dark street miles away from home.

Ekang’s mother and grandmother were rich before because of the heard they’ve got from the Grandmother of Ekang when it die.They are just wasting their money and not using in for more useful things it slowly gone form them and they become poor. They hard to find something to fill in their aching stomach so Ekang’s grandmother decided to be a hostess when she was young just to have her children something to buy food and that is the kind of life Ekang’s mother have grown. She also became a prostitute that which is hidden from Ekang’s grandmother. She gave fantasy in exchange of money just to have something to eat. And time goes by she has a husband she stop being a prostitute instead she became a drug pusher and ekang’s grandmother became a "bugaw" Their life became a cycle that the uncle of Ekang became so ashamed of his life. He is only 15 years old and yet he already smoke, drink alcoholic and instead of going to school he go to computer shop and spent the whole day playing counter strike or dota. Since he was a kid it’s not a big secret to him about what kind of family he has. He had known everything when he was young and now he just wish that it is not the kind of family he belongs with. He became a silent rebel in his own and kept all the feelings inside him for not having a good life in this family he has. When he is all alone at night, he drunk and smoke in his own and made drinking his companion through all his problem in his family.

A special day come to them, the baptismal of the baby they were all dressed, no visitor or godmother and godfather except to Kara David and no food preparation. It was the first time they became complete just only in the house of god. While the baby is being blessed by water they all have their prayers in their mind. A prayer that the baby they are gathering around might not experience the life they have experiencing right now, That the baby might have much better life unlike to them. That someday they will changed and might have a better life to life.

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This Document is a Great eye opener for me. It shows a peculiar kind of life poverty people have. The poverty that still pulling the filipino people buried in it.

In this Document "Sa mga mata ni Ekang" I’ve observe the kind of life a child like ekang have. It is not easy to be in her place. A young mind who had seen poverty in her family and made drug pusher, bugaw and holdap as their means of survival. It’s a pity thing that even the baby who had nothing yet to known in the world is being prone to a life of Destroying and damaging of each their lives. I don’t understand why they have to allow this to happen. Maybe it so easy for me to say that everything that Ekang’s family is doing were wrong it’s more hard for me to accept the fact that those people really choose this kind of life to live to.

In his Father, I’m impressed by the love given by the father to eking in spite of the works and sideline he really do things for eking, But to think of it he can use that love to change himself for good and start a big changes but then he don’t. Why? Because its not only the poverty but also he like what he is doing. He like holdapping or snatching something from someone.
On Ekang’s mother, honesty her reason for being a drug pusher can be thrown in the dungeon. She said that She needs to do it for her daughter to have something to eat. But there’s always a way in solving a certain thing its not easy but who says life is easy? Maybe he could make a change for the sake of the baby she is carrying but she don’t, in fact she still joining in taking drugs even she is giving breast milk to her baby. What kind of mother would do that thing. It may cause bad effect to the health of the baby. If she cant really stop taking drugs maybe she could let her baby have it artificial or something that can replace breast milk… Its better bottled milk, commercial milk.

On Ekang’s grandmother for having that kind of children is her fault because it all started to her parents is the model of their children as long they have seen their parents doing such things they intend to do it also because they thought its good. This is what had happen to Ekang’s grandmother and mother. She allows her children to do what she do and now this is the life they have seeing them allowing their daughters watch them taking drugs inside their house, and allowing to be one of the cancer of the society.

On Ekang’s Uncle, I pity him not for having that kind of family but for loosing hope that his family might change or maybe that someday they became rich if he just study well and dream to be not like her sister and mother maybe if he could have been a strong person to face this situation on his life he could have seen a big change for his family and nephew. But then he didn’t also acted as of the bad model on her nephew.

And to Ekang, for a family, environment And life she has I couldn’t say can never be like them because a person embraces the environment he has and I can say she can adopt the environment she has When she grow older if her mother and other members of the family didn’t do any thing to prevent that.

I cant predict what might happen to ekang and her sister but I’m hoping they are both different from their family.