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It's been ten years since I went home (to where I was born). Two days ago I traveled 16 hours to visit my hometown. It was raining so hard and I did not like it cause I still have to walk for about an hour and a half to reach our village. 

It's been ten years but not much have changed. The same old neighbor that we have before, they are still there, people still grow their own crops and animals. I guess what changed is the house we used to have. No one stays there anymore so there are a lot of weeds around the house, it look more like a hunted house than a home. 

It was not long ago when there were people laughing non-stop. The room i use to have looks like a garage than a room. How I wish we can go back to those days, the fruit bearing trees are still there, I still want to climb them like i use to do but it would be strange if I do that. Bigger question is that can I still climb a tree.. haha...

Strange to know that almost all my childhood friends are working overseas or working in big cities just like the way I do. One of my friend stayed in this old sleepy valley though, I asked if she got no plan in moving from this sleepy place and well well well to my surprise she use to be a VP of a company for such a young age. (well nothing is new she is an achiever even when we were young, she graduate magna as well in the university, so her being a VP in such a young age as 24 is not a huge surprise). but two years ago she found out that life in the big city is not really for her, I feel so ashamed when she told me this words "this town help us achieve where we all are right now, we are not who we are if not because of this sleepy valley everyone cant wait to escape. We all want to leave it as it is, we despise it so much but we are not even doing a single step to change it." She was right. It's not too late for me though, she started a program called Green Lovers where they educate people of the village how to increase their crops in a natural way. She is also trying her best to bring a school home so kids wont have to walk 2 hours just to go to school. (I use to walk 2 hours when I was in grade school and high school, it's really a long walk specially in the afternoon where in 2 hours become 2-3 cause it's climbing "literary"  the mountain just to attend school) She is doing it for free and I really salute her for doing that. I asked her what I can do to help and she told me this exact same word "come home as often as you can, to show the people that they were not forgotten". Well that's what I intend to do.  

after all.. that sleepy valley is my home..