Coming home to the Philippines, I have to accept that what is being practiced is reality and safety is already a relative term. How safe one can get? Is safety provided by the vehicle owner? The driver ? Or by the passenger himself?

As I was traveling from Iligan City to Marawi City, a good hour ride, my attention was caught by a sleeping child squeezed between the driver's seat and the back of his father who is driving the passenger jeepney that I took. I could not help myself as ideas poured in but to record that event in a video. http://lvsheepole.xanga.com/videos/402891121732/ . Although sleeping, the child was aware of the curves that the jeepney is going to take. The video showed that he has already taken precautionary measures by placing his tiny hand on the thigh of his father. His father's attention was on driving yet from time to time, as he negotiated the road, he flexed his elbow to ensure that the child remained behind him. As the child woke up, he removed his tiny hand from his father's thigh and maintained his position squeezing himself behind his father http://lvsheepole.xanga.com/videos/83f5b1121740/. In a world that has shrunk, the space for him is that little place beside his father. The child knew that there is no other place safer than that tiny place he shared with his father for an hour. The child knows his place.