While walking on the way to the burial of an old friend in his farm in Barangay Magallon, Mlang, Cotabato today, a little girl who was beside me gleefully shouted “Wow! There’s a lake!”
The little girl was obviously raised and lived in the city because the “lake” she was referring to was just a carabao puddle by the side of the village road.
I told the young girl in our dialect: “Indi na lake. Turugban sang karbaw na!”
Relatives and friends who heard me laughed out loud.
Deep inside me though, I felt sad that many children today have not even been to the farm and hardly know anything about farm life.
Many of them could not even tell the difference between a chicken and a duck, a goat from the sheep or a carabao from a cow.
The best knowledge they have of farm life was gained playing “Farmville” in their computers.
Parents should find time to introduce their children to farm life otherwise we will soon have a generation who would not have any idea of the beauty of rural life and the hardships faced by farmers in producing food for the country.
That would be a great disaster if some of them would grow to become our country’s economic policy makers and planners.
Kawawa naman ang mga magsasaka at mangingisda!
(Photos of carabao puddles were downloaded from public websites and used only for purposes of illustration.)
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