Wow, I can't believe it's been more than a year since I last blogged. A friend told me it's testament to how I'm actually living life rather than just writing about it. I admit I have been so busy that I hardly had the time to update myself online. I had suddenly become one of those people who just accepts invitations in Facebook and Multiply without actually having the luxury of going thru my friends' pages. The irony of being connected but still not quite in touch with the rest of the world.
Then this morning, while sipping my Caramel Macchiato and wolfing down a blissfully sinful Cinnamon Swirl bun... I went thru my old posts and realized that I DID miss--big time--documenting my 2007. I could've written about so many things, talked about so many new experiences... but I simply just... didn't. Time surely flies, things have changed, and nothing was constant. Reliving them in print (or online!) seemed to make the experiences last a little bit longer.
So now, I dedicate this short, albeit much-awaited post, to people, esp my friends, who are shockingly interested in what I have to say (so much so that they would actually DEMAND to have me write something on this again). Coolness! I vow to do better in updating my blog-- even go back and write about stuff that happened 3, 5, 10 months ago, when I dropped out of sight. I vow to remember how 2007 was such a difficult year and yet such great one.
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Last night, while I was doing some Excel files for work (BOOOORRRIIINGG), I was simultaneously (mabuhay ang multi-tasker) chatting with Liz, a friend of mine who is now stationed somewhere in Bonifacio Global City. She told me, green in the face (or at least I can imagine her green), how one of our friends, Anot, is currently in Cape Town for work. Yes, THE Cape Town in South Africa! How effing cool is that?! I pinged Anot, seeing her online, and told her how I too was turning green with envy!
Scrolling down my YM list, I also saw Penot, another college friend, who married a Scandinavian and is now living in Finland. So there I was chatting away with 3 different people in 3 different countries, different continents. So much has changed since our UP days (splurging meant going to Katipunan for lunch!) and yet, things haven't. Chatting with them, it was as if we were back in the tambayan waiting for our next class to start. We would banter around, laugh, and update each other in between hirits, gossip and bading talk.
It then dawned on me how much technology can really change lives (you can bring out the Kleenex now, please, haha). I know, I know, it's corny thinking that way, ESPECIALLY since I work in IT. Then again-- really, somehow-- we ARE all connected, aren't we?
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1 comment:
A friend told me it's testament to how I'm actually living life rather than just writing about it
True, or possibly your friend can't write, or makes a mistaken assumption that a life being lived is a life worth writing about.
All things considered, write anyway, no matter how mundane (even in the eyes of your friends).
A life worth writing, is a life worth living.
Cheers Llanti.
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