SLEEP ON IT: When October Ends

• When October ends, the many phases of this month bring lots of memories. Several people including my eldest son who is now in the realm of eternity had celebrated their natal days.

• As I sit on the rocking chair, a rundown of events flash on my mind starting with the rocking chair. When my maternal grandmother who raised me was always looking out from the window waiting for anyone to arrive, I had that intense desire to buy her a rocking chair. When I checked though at a rattan store, my, oh, my I just cannot afford that item! It just remained a dream! When mother got older, the same wish came to me, yet to no avail for the price was still too high for my reach. When I retired at 60, a visit to the mall surprised me with a plastic rocking chair of which I can afford and it’s label indicated that it is so durable and finally was in my level of capacity! Now I sit on it with much awe!

• Friends come and go! They also stray, but the true ones even if physical appearances are too short or in absence, the bond stays intact! The good thing is when these friends meet again, as if there is no in-betweens!

• It is wonderful to be surrounded with friends, however; when one is faced-to-faced with some of them, they smile at one ,yet backbite one with gusto. Lesson learned is to choose to whom one vents to or the world will all talk behind one.

• I remember a close one whom I thought was my angel, but she had the axe of a mouth as she told everyone my predicament! To this day, I had kept a distance! I am grateful though for friend’s daughter was honest enough to divulged what that snakey one was doing in ruining my reputation!

• A high school chum whom I though was a good friend who had that smile from ear-to-ear and whose eyes turned slit-like with his dimples deeply on a show did not give me a chance to defend myself! When he was alive, he webbed false stories of me when he joined my partner and my brother-in- law in a drinking spree! What now that he is already in another dimention! How can her clear my name? I know who I am and my conscience is clear! Some doubts though loom over the air when arguments visit the harmony of our home! Who in his right mind can afford to destroy a bosom friend’s name unless he wants acceptance from the stranger he wants to befriend with, hence had to talk of others behind their backs!

As the month ends, we remember our loved ones who have gone ahead of us. We, too,cannot help but reminisce treasured moments with them. If some painful memories surface as we ride the time machine back to those years with them, perhaps, it is best to delve deeper and check what lesson to live by can be learnedfrom the thorns that pricked our sanity!

“No es oro todo lo que reluce”! Yes! Not all that glitters is gold! Therefore, if someone offers us a silver platter of friendship, maybe, it is also best to be more careful before we become too familliar and open like a book!

May the souls of our faithful departed earn eternal rest that they will be at peace in their forever!

’til next ish… SHALOM!* (MLDP)