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SOMEBODY posted this on BLUE GENES, the yahoogroup of former employees of IBM in the Philippines. †Saw several versions of it in various blogs but I like this Blue Genes version the most because it was made to sound as if the whole story is a Pinoy creation.
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How life turned out this way
Animals were created before man.†
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First came the dog with the charge:†
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‘Sit all day by the door of the house and bark at anyone who comes in or walks past. You are given a life span of twenty years.’
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The dog said: ‘That’s a long time to be barking.††I’ll take ten and give You back the other ten?’
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That being settled, the monkey came next.†
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‘Entertain people, do tricks, and make them laugh. You shall have a twenty-year life span.’
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The†monkey said: “Monkey tricks for twenty years? That’s a pretty long time†to be a performer. Can I give you back ten years like the dog did?”
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The monkey got his wish.
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Then came the cow who was given the duty to:†
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‘Go with the farmer to work the field all day under the heat of the sun, have calves and provide milk to†support the farmer’s family. The cow was given a sixty-year life.’
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The cow prayed: ‘That’s such a long time for hard work.† How about†taking back forty years? I’ll settle for a life of twenty?’
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As always all one has to do is pray, and the cow was granted his prayer.
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Then came man.
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As†prized-creation, man was to live his whole twenty years eating,†drinking and being merry. †Man was supposed to enjoy life without†anxieties, worries and doubts.†
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But the never-contented and never-satisfied man humirit pa, with the retort: †’Only twenty years? I’ll take my twenty, plus the forty the cow gave back, the ten the†monkey returned, and the ten years refused by the dog; that makes eighty. Reasonable enough?’
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‘Okay, you asked for it,’ was the reply.
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So, for the first twenty years humans eat, drink, play and enjoy life…†
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After that come the life years rejected by animals.††
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Humans enter the forty years of the cow’s life, living as† beasts of burden to support the family.†
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Finally†retired at 60, humans live their years as monkeys, serving and amusing†young tots, especially grandchildren left in their care by parents†serving their time as beasts of burden.†
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Reaching age 70, the next 10 years is spent like a dog sitting† on†the front porch, barking when someone walks in through the gate. With†unsteady and crackling voice comes the sound of the doorbell: ‘May Tao!’
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Now you know who’s to blame for all this!
