Browsing through old pictures.
Looking at how we were and realizing how we are now.
Just can't help being grateful to two great persons who made life easy for us. Papa, now 80, just had his third stroke today. He's in the hospital while I'm miles away. I was able to talk to mama who assured me that everything is taken cared of and papa is stable.
These two persons, in their seemingly frail bodies have weathered many storms in their life. Always, they tell me: move on.
This was a time when vauxhall was worth PHP 12,000; when peso:dollar rate was PHP 3:USD 1; when we did not think of global economic crisis yet but just dreamed and lived life to its fullest. I was but a tyke then and papa just bought a new car.
Honestly, I am amazed at how these two couples are gifted each with 9 children.Justina & Enrique has 9 children: 7 boys and 2 girls.
Simeon & Rosita also has 9 children: 7 girls and 2 boys.
Rosita and Justina are sisters.
Rosita is my mom.
... and make them perfect in your mind."
Many times I hear myself and my friends mutter,
"Aaaahhh... I forgot to take pictures again!"
But later I realized that it doesn't really matter as long as I learn to capture and store the images in my mind and in time, make them perfect.
If perchance I will lose my memory, then it will be just like losing my pictures as if they were burned, stolen or simply misplaced.
Then live on...