The idea to put up a blog and social media page on life's journey with nature of the same title was conceived and coined in 2020 right inside an oasis.
Nature is being natural. No impurities. Candid. Being true to people, to yourself -- and most importantly, to God. Life is an open book but not all about you, you will reveal in one forum. Perhaps, in other platforms if not here.
My family is not well-off. We grew up trying to make both ends meet on a daily basis. I, for one, peddled food wares for the family when I was in my elementary days. My father was a married man when he met my mother. So we the children were born out of wedlock.
I won't dwell on details since my purpose in this post is to establish how I came to the place I call "the oasis.'
After graduation in college with the lowest degree in a university, I worked as a news reporter in a print media. The job of beating deadlines, making interviews and writing the actual news and feature was too much for me to bear to say the least since, I learned later on, I have been dealing with anxiety and depression. Thus, I have stopped this job that so much drained me mentally and emotionally.
I had done business instead. My food business was OK until the place I rented on was demolished so that I transferred to my siblings' residences one after the other -- until I had no one to turn to anymore. I had become homeless starting in 2013. Within a year, three months of homelessness. Almost every year since, I would stay homeless for months. The last year I was homeless was in 2020 when I stayed homeless the longest -- six months.
During those six months when the pandemic was at its peak, I had lived in the forest, the one I call "the oasis" where the notion for this Facebook page and a blog of the same title was birthed.
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| The oasis where the blog and the Facebook page of the same title "The -Ion Oasis" was conceived. (Photo by FJ) |
