my cousin and her family were visiting from bacolod this holiday season and one of the things they contracted us with was to accompany them to enchanted kingdom. having settled in bacolod for quite some time now, they wanted to tour their children around manila and treat them to some fun time at EK. it was the first time i was seeing some of my nephews & niece - jayjay, louiane and miles the youngest was only a couple of years older than jacob. they were a bunch of really nice, well-behaved kids who not only played with my nephew but held his hand and looked after him running around EK.
we've sort of become estranged with most of our cousins after grandma passed away. year after year, we've been deprived of reunions, birthday celebrations that would probably not have made us closer but at least offered some form of bond. we have kept in touch with some cousins though but only a few who really takes time to keep the communication alive. the absence of a relationship with the cuz's is no great loss really. maybe there are just some families who doesn't enjoy the kind of close relationship other families have. its probably one of the many reasons i can thrive being alone most of the time - it spurs independence.
again i realized how much older we are - seeing my nephews and nieces - the next generations of our bloodline and how much different their lives are today versus the years past. i had a childhood that was fun and exciting - the kind where i had the pleasure of traipsing along "kangkong" water fields trying to catch dragonflies. funny though that i did that at the vacant lot right beside my grandparents house in mandaluyong. it'd be fun to be children again - at least for a day though. i don't want to go through the motions of growing up again. in some ways, i enjoy being me now.
our time is passing. its the kids turn now.
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