I've been thinking a lot. (Image from Andrew Mitchell Photography c/o Pinterest)
If you've noticed, I haven't been posting a lot lately. I've been quite busy, the good kind of busy: some thinking, some planning and a whole lot of doing. Hence, I've been thinking about this blog for some time now. I have a lot of plans and am not quite sure if this is still part of the big scheme of things. The big question in my head now is "Shall I go on or move on?"
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Remember you had to answer these? (Image from hbc.djarv.co.uk)
When the days were a bit simpler and there were no social networks like Facebook / Twitter, we had three ways to keep track of our friends:
- The Address Book – which basically contained address (DUH!) and telephone numbers (home, office and fax numbers only…no mobile phones back then)
- The Picture Flap – which had at least one photo: graduation picture / studio picture (solo shot with standard sunflower straw hat) / ID photo WITH matching dedication handwritten at the back (the thicker your picture flaps are, the cooler you are since this meant you had lots of friends OR you just had lots of pictures of yourself ;p)
- The Slambook / Slumbook / Autograph book – which allowed your friend to fill in their contact details, post a picture (optional) answer a series of personal questions and write a dedication for you
Of all the three ways, obviously the slambook is the best as it almost had everything the address book and the picture flap had to offer plus more. It had a great way of bringing back precious memories between friends and the way things were. In this Social Internet Age with social networks and blogs, I wouldn’t have imagined that there still was a slambook until…
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Dodong and I have been apart for more than a month. Eight (8) months in fact was the longest we’ve been apart. But somehow, the month apart seemed like eight months too…
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Closing the distance between us. Photo by Nicolai Melicor (www.nicolaimelicor.wordpress.com)
Being in a long distance relationship for 3 years, it’s always been a dream of mine to be married, together forever with Dodong in the same time zone and country. I very confident that it would be so easy to leave everything behind: my family, my friends, my career…practically, my entire life in the Philippines. For true love, I knew I could drop everything like a hot potato and start anew, as long as Dodong was with me. But the Lord gave me an entire month to realize that leaving home is not as easy…
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Photo by Sherri Conley (http://www.etsy.com/shop/sherriconley)
Dearest Dodong,
So this is how it feels…leaving someone behind. I used to think it was quite easy. How come you make it look so easy?
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