Monday, April 04, 2005
john paul 2. we love you.
i never met him. i never saw him, save for his
occasional tv appearances especially when he
visited the philippines. i never touched his hand.
i never really had a close encounter. but for some
reason, i feel sad...a sense of loss...that he is...now...gone.
his death reminded me that, "oo nga pala, tao nga pala
sya." he has been the pope...our pope...my pope all my life.
alam mo yung feeling na nandyan lang sya because
it's a given. it's a natural thing to think. that i forgot
that he is, after all, human.
what saddens me is not his death per se because i believe
the man deserves that much deserved "break". what saddens me is how
he will inevitably be a part of a "distant memory", my "distant
memory". because whether i like it or not, no matter how great
his life was, and how much he became an inspiration to most of us
, we will sooner or later move on and subconsiously place him on the
"archives" part of our memory. in short, life goes on. we will move on.
sa libro na lang sha makikita and it's ok. labo ko no? ayoko mag move on.
gusto ko nanjan lang sha.
we'll that goes for every one of us when we die. i, too, will be a distant memory
when i die. and you, too. i guess the relieving thought that one will recover and
move on when a loved one dies is the same thought that makes death a sad course.
yes, i will remember him fondly. i will tell of him to all my children and grand
children and great grand children. but just the same, a story is still just a
story. parang kulang.
pero sabi nga. that's the way the cookie crumbles.
sinulat ko lang to para pag dumating yung time na magmove on ako...tayo. at nasa
"archives" part na sha ng memory ko maalala ko na there had been a point in my life
that i was touched by this person i have never met.
babyburn at 1:07 PM