Opportunities and Beyond

For easy accessibility, typical houses are situated in the low-lying subdivisions and town which are now unfortunately prone to flooding. The nearest to city the better. But ideally, some of us want to settle far from urban life. You’ve been working all your life 50 plus hours a week in a crowded box of rat racers and sometimes in your idle time you dream of someday owning a house on top of a hill or at the middle of a ranch that will rejuvenate your tired bodies from years of hard works and pollutions.

Yes as always, I love sharing my place to interested families. They can build houses on top of me and savor the sceneries that I’ve been enjoying centuries back. Unfortunately not all has the privilege to own me if ever my owners decide to sell me to others. Anyway that would be another topic.

How about those people who can’t afford me? If only I can persuade my bosses to open the place for public viewing, I would only be too happy to share my place to them. But I have a suggestion. How about putting up commercial establishments here? Like mini hotel, restaurant and spa. Eych shared this idea to me couple of weeks ago and I like it. The more people will come here, the more they will appreciate this place.

Here are some of the visions Eych conveyed to me in photos creatively edited in Photoshop. Let your imagination soar a little. I would be glad to hear suggestions from you. 

Oh My Omeo

It was a random pick- from Boro to Lolo, the selection usually limited to words ending with letter o. But Oreo was the focal point. And we all know what Oreo represents even to adults. It started from Ameo to Zeo. It was a process of jumbling letters to create something unique that sounds like Oreo and which eventually ended up as Omeo.

During the setting up of accounts on the internet for blogs or photo/video sharing like Flickr and Youtube, the name Omeo was already taken or used by others. Although there were suggestions like Omeo1, it simply didn’t sound right.

So he tried searching for the word Omeo in Google for a possible connection. He discovered that the word Omeo is a small town in Australia with less than 500 populations. What was rather interesting was the meaning the Aborigines have given to the word – it means mountain or hill (courtesy of Wikipedia). A coincidence?

With such an apt discovery, it convinced him all the more to stick to the name, Omeo. This is not plagiarism, of course. The word existed for a long time and around the world many places and towns bear the same names. But the problem is how to use Omeo in the setting up of accounts. He tried mixing it with words like omeohill or omeolegazpi, but it doesn’t rhyme. In short, the choice was cut down to omeolegazpi, gazpi was deleted and replaced then by letter o. So omeo with a surname leo was created. Although Omeo is the account name for my blog since it was accepted, the rest of the other accounts were named Omeoleo.

Nature’s Unequal Balance

In a city oftentimes chaotic in various ways, little chance do we get to repay the services our bodies have sacrificed for the things we usually do not need. We can then consider ourselves lucky to be able to live in a world of gray and black with a glimpse of green at the center of it in hundreds of square-feet. Yes a park of floras and faunas at the heart of shimmering infrastructures, giving us relief from dreadful life. How wonderful it is that after all the rush comes the hush. The typical urban life. 

But in the country-side, life is somewhat simple. People are working and living in a park. The park of a mega city is the kind of city these folks usually in contact with, in harmony with nature. Not just a glimpse of greens but blends them with grays. It equalizes chaos but likewise resulted to dullness.

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To break boredom, and to hype up those adrenaline, they would scuttle to mega city and lose themselves amidst the rushing crowds and bright lights. In contrast, the pressure-cooker guys wanted to unplug the current that boils their asses and souls. They go to extreme places of rushing waves and cool breeze. They indulge in fresh fruits and sea foods, while the folks buy shoes and drink coffee in fancy cups.

The big difference however is between the affluent and the poor. Successful millionaire urban guys who may have all the gadgets of the modern world also have the best views of nature downtown. They can afford to buy houses on hilltops overlooking the wonders of the world. That’s reality – an unfair reality. Even a guitar-strumming boy who lives his whole life accompanied by humming birds may not have the best of what nature can provide.

Oftentimes extreme poverty resides in the purest of nature, in the wilds. So what is actually the measure of wealth if these folks have all the treasure of nature but still dream of touching concretes and later end up in slums? Again in contrast, why would professionals who work at the 31^st floor fifty hours a week, still hope to touch the soil at weekends? The common ground here is peace of mind. Too much noise or too much silence is both deafening. The folks who have all the serenity of nature worry how to buy cellphones to break the silence, to have a better life. While the urbanoys (urban boys) with the constant buzzing and ringing try to imagine the sounds of crickets in the silence of the night, longing for quality life. The folks want to die with shining shoes on their feet while successful executives want to retire bare foot.

So being in contact with nature constantly is truly a blessing. It could be a breathtaking scenery or just a simple garden of flowers. People from all walks of life want balance in their lives. It could be from modern living to nature loving or vice versa. But the rich who has all the money in the world also has the best varieties of experiences with nature. Unequal balance.