MATEO HOT & COLD SPRINGS
Soaking in hot spring water is relaxing, soothing and is believed to be medicinal. I wouldn't have known that, being that my only experience of a hot spring was in Taipei, and the redolent smell of sulfur reminded me so much of rotten eggs.
Yet I have been feeling blue lately with very little clue as to what else I could do to feel better. I've tried chocolate, caffeine, all sorts of fried, fatty, calorrific and cholesterol-packed food... I did derive pleasure, of course, from feeding myself. But those were just momentary bursts of hallucination as an instant result of sugar and grease happily coursing through my arteries, therefore blocking any coherent signals to my brain. So I'd feel good for hot minute, yes, but I'd soon get frustrated that the euphoric feeling was so short lived. And then I'd start feeling blue all over again.
So I was prepared to try anything, including dunking myself into a pool that reeks of rotten eggs. Who knows, maybe the hot spring has curative powers that can immediately dissolve my psychoses. It can't cost more than what a shrink would charge to listen to me whine, right? At the very most, I'd just have to spend on a new loofah and a good, strong bath gel.
Water in the Mateo Hot & Cold Springs flows directly from the Bulusan Volcano. Surpisingly, the reservoirs are deviod of any sulfuric stench.
I took a dip, slowly felt my muscles soften, and almost fell asleep.
After a while, I felt no more pain.
Shit, I thought. This is better than Prozac.
// Monbon, Municipality of Irosin //
