MY UNCERTAIN, HAPPY JOURNEY.

For Ronnie.

Our story has always been about coming and going and how in the length of time, we stood by - like the anchor to the ship…

I used to think that I lived a significantly imperfect and boring life but was coward enough to deny it. I found out I was wrong. I learned from you that it’s better to live one’s life with truth and imperfection than not being able to be content in trying to be perfect endlessly. I loved you for that.

Yes. More birthdays and Christmases and New Year’s.

“WHERE YOU WILL SIT TO CONTEMPLATE YOUR DAY…”

I’ll be the phonograph
that plays your favorite album,
back as you’re lying there
drifting off to sleep.

I’ll be your winter coat buttoned
and zipped straight to the throat.
With the collar up
so you won’t catch a cold….

(excerpt from Brand New Colony - w/ thanks to Brew for writing this on my blogspot years ago?:) )

*I think i’ve always been your buttoned coat, zipped straight to the throat and collar up so you won’t catch a cold! Haven’t i been always?:) haha… That’s the simplest way to put my role to your life quite literally and into a funny metaphor, haha. More than how I’ve wished for myself, to see your happiness was what i’ve written in that small book.
I miss you always.*

THE LONGEST TWITTERING I WROTE SO FAR…

Tonight I watched Cheche Lazaro with Fernando Zobel on Walang Iwanan special.
And I thought to myself - how moving it was to learn about what Corporate Social Responsibility can do to other people. It showcased how he leveraged Ayala Corporation’s capacity to extend its resources to help build communities and provide employment for under privileged people to sustain their way of living. And how he supports the education of so many children, as in CENTEX. I thought again that this is very noble.

The way he enunciates his vision and I think so many businessmen are one with him in this endeavor but what differs each from the others?… It’s the compassion that radiates when he talked about it.
I’d say the heart when it speaks, in whatever aspect kahit sa simpleng sitwasyon ng isang simpleng tao ( in the simplest situation a simple person can speak of his own plight), we know if there’s real compassion translated into vision, action and follow through.

See how watching him talk to Cheche can impose such inspiration on me to be able to write right now! Haha. Plus the fact that he is so good looking, I may had been bias. Grin. The same goes as I write about Manny Pangilinan talking about his roots and the climb he did through the years to be where he is today.

Great citizens. Why can’t everyone in government be like them?

*written for facebook at 12:22am MNL*