The Sixth Sense

      Most people are blessed to be born with the complete senses: sense of sight, of hearing, of smell, of touch, and of taste. While others are just unfortunate to be lacking one or maybe two of these. And unfortunately, the people who have perfect senses forget to value every single one of them. They abuse them, put them into wrong use, blah blah blah...so when they lose one of them, they regret it. All these senses have one thing in common, though. They all are on to tangible objects. You can see food, hear it cooking on the pan, you eat it with your bare hands and finally taste it. But there is one sense, the sixth sense as I call it, that is above all these. And by that I mean it can sense other things intangible. It senses beyond that.

      It is the sense of feeling...you get what I mean, though, right? The five other senses are produced from certain organs like the eyes, ears, nose, skin, and tongue. But can you guess where the sense of feeling comes from? That's right. It comes from the heart. Well, scientifically speaking this is bullsh*t. But from an ordinary person's point of view, one will/may agree. The heart can practically do half of what your other senses can, like it can see, hear, or touch something or someone. And it doesn't need the eyes to see, nor the ears to hear, neither the skin to feel. Cause it just happens. It's a part of the complexity of being a human. 

PRECAUTION...the next paragraphs will get a lot cheesier than the first ones so if you're the person into it, then continue reading. But if you're not, I suggest you close this window. haha

     I have said that the heart does not need the eyes to see. And sure as hell it doesn't. Say you have a girlfriend, and you love her so dearly but your friends don't like her and they always convince you to break up with her cause she's no good for you. But lo and behold you guys are celebrating your what, 7th-ish anniversary? Why is that? It is because your heart sees beyond her. You see good things about her that your friends' ordinary sense of sight don't. 

     I also said that the heart does not need the ears to hear. True friends...they are the people who hear you weep even without tears falling down your eyes. They are the people who know you are sad even though you have a big perfectly shaped smile glued on your face for like the entire day. They don't need to hear the words for them to know what you're feeling. They just know. Cause they can feel it...they can feel something's wrong. Now that is how a real friend differs from a "friend" whom you met on the bangketa or somewhere else. I'm not gonna talk about categories of friends here, though. 

     I have also mentioned that the heart can touch something or someone. And people experience this whenever someone shares a story or when an unexpected person did something unexpected to make feel better, and others. For instance, the heart touches another heart by sharing one's story like what happened to Regine Velasquez's Silver concert. On the first concert, she got a lot of people crying in the crowd. Why? Because even though it was impossible for her to continue with the show due to her condition, still she went out on the stage and sing her heart out as good as her condition possibly can. And she used her baby boy and her husband to serve as her strength while doing the nearly impossible show. She was there sitting at the edge of the stage crying with her baby on her lap while singing beautifully from her heart. Then I hear people crying quietly, as well as my mom.

     And then at the end of the show while we were on our way to the parking my mom told us, "mararamdaman niyo rin yan kapag nanay na kayo." I totally understood what she meant though I didn't have a full grasp of the idea since I am not "them" yet. And as for the other example, well if you're watching Willie Revillame's noon time show, or those show like Wish Ko Lang, that would probably do. The heart touching another person doesn't need to be near them. As long it can make a connection, it will touch you how farther you may be. 

So the next time your teacher/person asks you how many senses you have, you know what to say, alright? hahaha kidding :P