I’ve just sneaked in my brother’s personal computer, for me to fill in my dull and boring moments, it pushed me to do the same routine: log in to my YM, check for updates of my friendster account, view my email messages, and suppose to be, spend again countless hours for my favorite online game. But this time, I wasn’t able to fulfill the last step. Well, blame it on the SPAMs which have passed through the securities of the web-mail service provider I’m using, and what’s more annoying; they’ve flooded my precious inbox, and each one of them have the same, common subject, “sex”. It was not the first time I’ve encountered these kinds of messages; I usually ignore and remove them right away from my storage. I don’t know, but there was some kind of mystery behind this phenomenon, so I followed the link that was provided in each message. About not more than 5 or 6 seconds, they revealed me reality.
I felt I was an arrogant, young teenage citizen of this pretentious society. Above all the achievements I’ve reached, considerably fame and popularity, different recognition of my hidden talents and skills, and a lot more things about success, I never thought I’m actually a “newb” of the real world I am living, all because of the webpage which popped out off the screen, showing me a nude picture of an Asian woman. She was with a naked male, traceable that the shot was taken after they’ve gone sex. I suppose this might not be new to the modern generation and may probably give them the thought, “ngayon ka lang nakakita ng ganyan?” Of course not! I used to be a curious teen, and an ultimate browser of pornographic multimedia, but that was a long time ago. I eventually stopped, since I was hooked on computer games. The reason why I was really shocked when I’ve seen the photo is because she was someone I knew to have the same social status as mine. She had skills, talents, brains and especially beauty, more likely to be considered as a top ideal woman. Suddenly, flashbacks of stories from different experiences shared to me by my friends kept playing on my memory. I never believed in them in the first place, because I have in my mind set that they can never do such things which are somehow related as the picture was showing, since they are indeed too young to be exposed to it, but I was wrong, completely wrong.
A face of a friend you knew, even with the most innocent-looking smile can be deceiving. Even granted with a top status, enrolled in an exclusive catholic school is not exempted from this reality. Now I’m in a total confusion, who am I to see as holy? Who am I to consider as “clean?” Are there any other teenagers, who have not yet experienced these things? Or should it mean, I may become one of them in the near future?
I can’t end up on a conclusion that I won’t share the same experiences, but I may have the guts to educate my co-teens, that this should not be the world we must face. Before, my father used to tell me, brides of most wedding occasions always wear white gowns, symbolizing purity. But what I’ve witnessed nowadays, they prefer to be dressed up on blue gowns, along with their sized tummies. Even sometimes, their flower girls are their daughters, and the ring or coin bearers, their sons. Aren’t these the usual events we are celebrating? What happened to the saying that “A woman must keep her virginity until the day of her marriage?”
We are being corrupted by false realities. We’ve already been used to a philosophical fallacy, that what we knew as “wrong” becomes “right”, for the fact that everyone else is doing it. Anyway, still, I wish to stand by my proposition, we must not forget about the “good” reality, we are not worthy of inheriting “evil.”
