The word of the day is “INSOUCIANT” (adj.) carefree:cheerful lack of anxiety or concern. That got me into thinking, how I wish I could  live the rest of my days insouciantly. Beinginsouciant has both negative and positive connotations. If you’re a public official and someone comments that you are an insouciant boor, give him a whack on the head. But if you feel that it’s true, let him do the honors of whacking you instead. One couldn’t help being insouciant these days, with the EVAT and all. I guess it’s not being carefree anymore, but it is the feeling of helpnessness about what our society is turning out to be. Doctors turning into nurses, policemen turning into caregivers, the high prices and the self-serving government officials who have the gall to put posters even at the most insignificant affairs, for the sake of name-recall (Happy Halloween! from Councilor XXXXX). It’s desperately surreal, surreally desperate and I don’t know how should I feel for most of us. I just came in the province where the bananacue still costs two pesos. The vendor spends 60 pesos to take her products to the market. That’s selling 30 bananacues to compensate for the fare alone. On lucky days, she sells about 200 bananacues. That’s 400 pesos minus 60 pesos fare . Almost  15  percent actually.  But what about her family’s meals, the children’s baon, electricity? Evidently, she’s selling just to survive living everyday. But she’s insouciant about her current condition. She has high hopes that some day one of her 5 kids would make it big. So what’s my point about all these insouciance? I guess I can’t be more insouciant about making any point at all! Too bad, you’re reading this.