Scenery on the top of a hill

By Aaron Testado

            When I was 10 years old I like going to have an adventure seeing different place in our town like scouting the river bank, roaming around and my favorite is seating on the tower on the top of the hills. Hiking to the top is difficult but when you get on the top, it pays off. As you approach the very near of the peak, you will feel the heat of the sun as it rises up and feel the cool breeze of the wind hitting your face and back. It was a very comfortable moment. Lastly, taking the stairs to the top of the tower; it was built there as a landmark and I want seeing place from there. Scenery on the tower is remarkable, you can see schools, malls, houses, subdivisions, resorts, the lake, and many more. You can feel as if you can hold the world at your hand and it brings me the feeling of success. When you are up there you can dream whatever you want to be in the future, it’s a place where I can generate new Ideas.

 
Other people like my relatives and friends find it boring because they don’t saw it as I did. Because when I’m there I don’t just focus on the scenery I focus in the landscape and asking myself what causes this beautiful landscape to be like this today. I research on the history and geography of the area and what I found out was our town is seating on a dormant volcano and its hole is at the bottom of the lake. It’s quite amazing and terrifying but it’s true.

  
People and nature are fighting each other, a feud that always results nature as successor. We humans are busy building concrete buildings, houses, places, bridge, roads, developing new technology, researching for new innovation and so on. Besides this advancement we remain an important part of nature because I think human are here on earth to protect nature itself and not destroying it.
   

            Going back on the top, I saw a limestone mining facility CONCRETE AGGREGATES and it keep digging our hills converting it to concrete use for building roads and houses. Not far a way is a heritage site it is a cave that is believes to be a resting area for animal breeders way back 5000 years ago, where you can see a petroglyphs markings of a frog, birds, snake, humans and many more. The Ice age old heritage site is near on its end, because of the effects of the blasting from the near mining site.

            Well on my back was a subdivision built for human residential and leisure place. A big golf course and a hotel are being built at the excavated part of the top of the hills. Rich people and businessman meet there for fun and not wittingly knowing that their playing grounds was once a nesting ground for different birds, wild boar Philippine dear, other animals and a place where the Itas (native aborigines) called their lands. The subdivision was build and construct for housing but 12 years has past and only below 20 buildings was built, it includes houses and leisure area. Now most of the roads there was grassland.  It was the sadness part here because we humans are keep developing lands for our own pleasure and yet we eliminate what is left for nature. On my front, you can see a beautiful big lake but its now dirty and its water has a grayish color, because most the sewage system of towns, mining facility, agricultural area and other industry in the region was tapped to the river that builds the lake. Another problem are start to rise now when our province use to developed an industrial area in the lake itself, some people on our government approve the reclamation of the lake which is to be on the protected on the law.

            Most of the time people are happy to be in places like this because of the scenery but for me even I want to I can’t because I saw it differently. I can see the bad part of human greed and their unfulfilled heart that keep them destroying their environment. We build and developed lands for our own course but we keep destroying places for living things. Now I can say truly that money is the source of all evil on earth.

            On the top of the hill I can generate new Ideas and fulfill my eyes desire but my heart is in grief and my mind is in the state of questioning. Why other people don’t see what I see when I put attention on the landscape. We produce more that we should eat…