My World: Chapter Two

Okay, so I'm gonna write here about this thought that keeps on bugging me. Have you ever wondered how you get to learn and know things without having someone to actually teach you?

Last Saturday, I was having my usual eat-sit-sleep-wake weekend at my lola's. I was sitting in front of our t.v and began scanning the channels. Then it hit me. How and when did I ever know about this stuff? Like the different t.v stations. I remember when I was a lot more younger, I'd just sit and stare at the t.v acting as if I have any idea with what was happening inside that screen. Until one day, I knew about ABS-CBN and GMA 7 (which, I really don't know how I found out about those stations). Since my mom and my aunts always watch at ABS-CBN, I figured, I should be fond of the shows of that channel, too. I found out that there was actually a stiff competition, or shall we say, "rivalry" between those two stations. Then, again, I have no idea how I knew that fact. I used to really hate GMA. We all know that there's always a short commercial break in the midst of a certain show. Well, I used to think that all the commercial ads that were aired in ABS belongs only to the said station. That's why I'm super ashamed of myself when I happened to sneak in GMA for about a decade ago, and saw a toothpaste commercial that I've already seen in ABS. You know what I did? Well, not that much. I just simply screamed at that freaking moment! I screamed the hell out of me and the next thing I know, my aunt was rushing downstairs and came to me instantly. I can see the full panic in her face as she ask me what's wrong. (Just so you know, my face is inexplicably red right now while writing) Then I gasped, "Tita oh! Gin agaw thang GMA ang advertithement thang EIBIETH. Dayaon!" I know. I'm stupid. And she just stared at me for a while as if trying to analyze my look if I'm kidding, and she laughed. She laughed so hard I could hear her lungs bounce in rhythm. Imagine? She just laughed at me boisterously, while I was there, staring at her, then at the t.v, then her again. My face full of confusion. I didn't even get my answer. 

Then as I grew a bit matured, I figured out the answer myself. And yes, I didn't know how. And there are other things, so many more other things that I quite figured out on my own. I don't know. Maybe I'm just being so...human. Maybe I didn't learn by myself at all. Well, except the fact that I'm being sent to school everyday to learn, I'm pretty sure there are other things that I knew not just from textbooks, but from the world itself. With the help of my textbooks, I found out that I learn things immediately because I see through my eyes which passes to some random nervous glands until it reaches my brain. But with the help of the world, I found out that I learn things immediately because the world reminds me that I am a part of it. That I tend to learn about the things that surrounds it. And with all the years I've been doing it, I acquired wisdom. And that's how I learned more. I think. Wisdom is thoroughly coming into you without even knowing it. I just made that whole thing up. I know. It kinda sucks. But that's what I think. Ugh, see? I didn't even know how on earth I learned the word "wisdom".