TIME GOING BY.

October, 2011
Baguio City

“The two of you are the best of me. Even if there is no life after death,living with you has been worth everything to me. The time I’ve spent with you – those collected bits of moments – are the high point of my life.”  ~ Jorge Ramos from The Gift of Time (Letters From a Father)

At this point, I appeared restless from swinging back and forth, asking myself  if my life at work and outside home had gotten in the way of my time I should have concentrated on my children.  For however long, I justified it by saying I had to earn to be able to sustain a comfortable life for us. Somehow, it reached past the momentum. I’m now caught always running against time praying to slow it down a little – with every second that counts to the past – so I could be with them more and more. Oh, how they’ve grown, I have to synchronize my clock to keep up with the pace.

I remember when I came across this sight of a mother and child walking hand in hand on Session Road, I called it a Kodak moment, so I captured it through my lens. I was transported to memory lane – seeing myself with Wam and Sasan, taking them by the hand and we’d walk together going to church and Wam’s pre-school located beside it every morning. I no longer have that privilege. It only meant I have gotten old and I am now welcoming that change positively. Soon, they will have a life of their own, I could go on and on with my sentimentality…

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