my eyes are the heaviest right now. but i think i wouldnt sleep if i dont let this out.
10am, i woke up, grabbed coffee and went online then i accidentally clicked youtube on my google ig featuring three japanese girls. and its just pure senseless. and then theres this video with a subject that caught my attention in the "related" box, "dolphin massacre in japan". i clicked it, thought it was just one of those weird japanese videos, and yes it is. but this time, it made me cry like hell. and im not using the word "crying" like how people use it on a simple emotion. i literally and wholeheartedly cried.
i remembered the first day i saw a dolphin. i was 11, and we were on our way to negros, riding a ferry from cebu. they were like those playful puppies wanting attention. who would not smile when you see them whistle or try to even talk? they are one of the most adorable, cute, benign creature ive ever seen. aside from really fluffy puppies.
and i understand japan like how they culture work. i mean, we have our differences. they eat with chopsticks, we eat with a spoon and a fork (which was actually found weird in canada, if you could recall that pinoy kid isolated in their cafeteria), some eat with a fork and a knife and some with their hands. so this post is far about criticizing other cultures. this isnt about nationalities, this is about the human specie being sadistically barbaric, unbelievably inhumane and senselessly trying to use survival skills when we still have aplenty.
i am just trying to point out about the dolphins. we all know that there are other creatures eaten even though we could eat the livestocks we are breeding and vegetables we are planting. and there may be times that we have that feeling of substantiation then think that dolphins are just fishes, meant to be eaten. or perhaps imagined having a juicy bite of a phillipine eagle breast fillet. aso nga rito pinapatay e. kulang na lang pati nanay kainin. it is a really bad analogy. but it helped me realize putting my shoe to inborn-vegetarians who see someone eat a chicken leg in front of them.
its the process of killing the dolphins that breaks my heart more. first, they trap them, disturb their sonar senses, poke them with a spear to intentionally spill blood on the water so other dolphins would come near it, tie it up on a truck then drag it on a near pier slaughterhouse. kids pass by seeing the dolphins in that manner like they are just meant to squiggle like that, gasping for oxygen with their airducts slashed open, then die in a very painful slow death. sell it in the market, and label it wrong, pretending that its tuna. or any other meat.
then reading the comments in youtube... it wasnt even the dolphins anymore. its suddenly about the races, the presidents, the pseudo intellects, the articulates, the spell checkers and a lot of cusses. why? why are we all of a sudden so blinded by what we pretend to know and have achieved, have discovered yet, becoming heartless that at some point, beating animals to death just became a mere hobby. or a view. or just, plain nothing.
i am so sad to have lived in a world like this. to have coexisted with people who arent even people anymore.
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