I love to eat vegetables. I love the nourishment they give me. When I was small, my mom used to tell me that vegetables would make me healthy and strong, same with what my elementary grade teacher always taught us. I would even smile remembering those nursery rhymes about vegetables which I used to recite in class. Indeed, everyone is right. Vegetables do make me strong, healthy and err, smart?

Eating vegetable has become my habit, but there is one vegetable I hate to eat: ampalaya. I really detest its bitter taste. It feels like I’m putting poison in my mouth every time a part of it lands in my tongue. This I carried on until I grew up and learned many things in life until I learned to love.

Just like vegetables, love made me strong, healthy and alive. Loving somebody made me happy to the extent that I wished I could halt the ticking of the clock while I was with my beloved. Having somebody to love, care and share passions with is an everyday bliss. Just like vegetables, love made my vision clearer, my bones stronger and even my cheeks rosier.

But life is indeed in a constant flux. The feeling of blessedness I got from loving somebody, like vegetables, got rotten and went to waste for reasons "she" and God only knows. Those clear vision, stronger bones and rosy cheeks I got turned to momentary blindness, weakness, daily tears and eye bags. I never got smart. My heart was broken. The gem which I polished and treasured was shattered into a billion microscopic pieces I could retrieve in vain. It hurt so bad that I wished to eat more vegetables again to replenish my lost vigor, which I did.

As I eat, I realize that eating vegetables is much better than loving somebody; no heartaches and guilt, just plain nourishment. And eating ampalaya, perhaps, is just like thinking of those bittersweet memories. I am eating ampalaya now. I wish I will be smarter this time.

	1. 11-06-2007 20:56
	hahahha u might think the worse on me but so sorry,i can't eat vegetables even tomatoes...how many times i tried but 2no avail..after it land on my tonque i vomit!    fruits...only i prefer 2eat mango,avocado and oranges...that's it!a big NO 2 apples and grapes...hahaaha!hmmm...maybe bcoz am living on the highest peak of mountain...taga bundok...kis-a lang dulhog guro sa syudad..toinkz! Guest Report

juzzme_bjoy23

	2. 11-06-2007 21:38
	nice one! i suggest you should eat more kalabasa. lantawa ako kay kang gamay ako kurbasa lang gid kag balunggay ginakaon ko nga laswa... ti naglinaw katama ang akon mata.    rayu pa lang si misis, kita ko dayon ang future ko kana. amo ra kalinaw!     kaso ang masubu si misis wara pagkaon kang kurbasa amo ra nga nakasandad tana kanakon! Guest Report

ztirfps

	3. 11-06-2007 23:30
	nice one! delikado lang sa vegetables kung duro pesticides....let's go organic (as in safe vegetables and/or pesticide-free)! Guest Report

Jigsz

	4. 12-06-2007 04:56
	:D hahaha nong fritz! that's funny..hehehehe..     this is nice steph...i used not to eat ampalaya too, now i'm loving it.     i've had my ownshare of bittersweet memories as what you've said..but since i know already how bitter they taste, it won't hurt to give it another bite, right?hehehehe..tip ko lang, kun magkagat kaw, don't think nga pait tana, instead, think of the vitamins you'll get..in that way, you'll keep on wanting for more bisan pait or tam-is man ra.. hehehe! Guest Report

anne_0125

	5. 12-06-2007 08:25
	:D step, nami tana pang-iton fried chicken kag pork chop. Para indi kaw magmal-am (because you will not live longer). Keep it up.  Guest Report

vicpjr

	6. 12-06-2007 10:20
	:D pareho taaa! indi mo gid takun mapakaon kg amarguso kag alogbati,lol. sa pagka pida kanakon, pero pag abot ja sa korea bakas man ako magharab laswa,hehe. wara pautwasan mong, kundi napiritan magkaon bisan ga suka-suka sa umpisa. now i like korean food, indi run ko kakaon nga wara kimchi! pareho bala nga indi run ako mabuhi nga wara si mr.lee!weee! Guest Report

zeanra7

	7. 19-06-2007 18:40
	The day I started eating ampalaya uy ang tomato indi tana ra vegetable di ba?  ti daw may vitamin c man ria... sala gid tana commercial sa tv... atu balang "makulay ang buhay, makulay ang buhay sa sinabawang gulay!" hehe... nice one.. Guest Report

roniepoe

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