Carmina is traveling to the United States to spend time with her family. My dad planned a family gathering for Mother's Day at their favorite Pinoy restaurant . Since reservations aren’t possible, we arrived an hour early to ensure we could get a table for twelve before everyone else showed up. As my dad approached Isla Grand , the branch we visited in Pleasant Hills, California , the host at the door said they could prepare a table for twelve at five o'clock. Later, the server called my dad's name and guided us to our table. The place was bustling with people enjoying meals and celebrating Mother's Day. On our first visit to Isla Grand, I was captivated by the décor, noticing many native items that gave the place a fancy yet authentic Filipino feel. They usually have a live band, but unfortunately, there was no entertainment the night we went. My family had spoken highly of Isla Grand and encouraged us to try the Filipino dishes we’ve been missing from back home. Lech...
The life you live become the
opposite from where your family and friends live and the way you live off from
having what they call it an easy life the life they don't have and what they
would want if they could.
The life I live in the Philippines living with a handful of people
is a life some people don't want and they cannot picture their friends living
in that kind of situation from someone who has lived here for so many years you
learn to accustom yourself in every life situation you get use to it from the
beginning it is difficult once you learn to live the way your life is you get
acquitted to how it will become until you move out to have your own place of
your own.
My friends always tell me how can you manage to live that kind of
life and put themselves in my shoe they need their own privacy.
My friends explain they have been living life alone and being
single gives them the freedom to do what they want to do and no one can tell
them what to do.
I always tell my friends they had picked that that kind of life to
live on their own and do what they feel they can control but I asked them do
you see yourself alone until you get old don't you ever feel you want to be
loved to have a companion who can be there to take care of you when you reach
being a senior some people don't want to left alone in their home.
There are other people who prefer to live alone until they do
become a senior they feel they have the freedom and they are independent to do whatever
they feel like doing they don't need to worry for the other person who is at
their side.
Yes, they do get lonely and it hits them at night this is what my
friends tell me.
My friends tell me if they cannot find the companion maybe fate is
not there for them. I always tell them you never know who you would run into
and who knows there is a person just that you haven't seen them or they can be
among your friends who are also single but never paid attention to them.
Sometimes we don't know how our life will be and who will be a
part of our life when the time comes.
To get to know a person takes months and years to know they really
well enough and by the time you have concentrated on that person you have known
them enough of who they are and they know who you are based on your own
conversation with them.
My friends always ask me if I
we're to move back to California would I be able to cope it without any helpers
in your environment. I always tell my friends yes I can cope with it and living
the way I live I haven't spoiled myself any different than anyone else.
I can cook my own food.
I can do my own laundry.
I can clean my own home.
I can shop alone in the grocery store.
I can drive and I still have my California driver's license like
anyone else we renew it when it is expired.
I can do things on my own and don't need to depend on anyone only
myself.
Just where I live is only temporary everyone has their own dreams
and where they want to live in order to do that we planned ahead and if those
plans don't come sometimes in fate it brings us to a different direction where
our fate can lead us somewhere else we really don't know what will happen when
it does for sure I will tell you by than when I am there.
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