Getting away from all the daily routine is really the thing
to do to just break the monotony of life. The best time to do it is when it isn’t
planned, like when somebody just calls from out of the blue to ask ‘would you
like to catch tilapia for lunch?’ Then you just drop everything even as another
someone turns up also from out of the blue in an attempt to resolve personal issues
that would certainly never be resolved in one sitting anyway, you feeling strongly
deep inside that it’s just going to be a reprise of a past episode.
So you say ‘yes, I haven’t had tilapia for sometime’, grab your cap and jacket as your protection against the downpour and flag down a trike like there’s an emergency, as you holler back to your surprised visitor, ‘let’s talk another time’, until you get to the middle of nowhere in no time at all, not minding the puzzled look on the driver’s face.
The rain has stopped and you’re shown the backyard tilapia pond and instantly wondered why you never thought of building one before. Tilapia easily take the bait pala with just bread balls, but come to think of it, I never caught a fish for the last twenty years. The expensive fiberglass fishing rod I had then, got broken in two the very first time I used it that I simply threw it away in exasperation, entirely giving up the idea of catching any fish at any time. Now I know, when getting away from it all, you do learn something new everyday and realize you also think quite differently now.
