My weekend had begun to trip along much more quickly these days once again. Friends, parties, weddings, more friends coming back, myself and I – though not necessarily in that order – created a neat and effortless pattern to follow, which means I’m glad, being almost happy in a profound kind of way – keeping the dream away for two days in a row.
When friends celebrate birthdays or significant events in their life happen, we tend to spend time with them, although I missed one very important episode of a friend’s wedding last Thursday. I sucked at equally dividing myself and where to place it, which actually makes me envious of people who can slide by in three different occasions in one day lol. If I could do that then I would crawl of exhaustion already, although it happened last Thursday.
I was with Jam, Bong & Bryan early morning at Thursday, for the nth time we visited redsand, trying to be as hospitable as we could to Bong who’s fresh from Alkhobar since it’s his first time to the place. All in all, we enjoyed the picture taking as usual, and then head for late lunch on our way home at a Thai Asian resto which Jam I believed is a regular to the place.
At almost 3PM, I was with chin to help prepare for his birthday and despida party no matter how a little exhausted I was to the redsand trip. I didn’t let chin down like I told her to count on me on the preparations. I wouldn’t have to explain to her or to anyone why I was looking a bit tan more than my usual color that time either because of the sun that morning. I showed that I would want to spend more than I already did although I was already trying to find the strength to get to my feet all the time. Chin was ecstatic of my presence I supposed; no matter how zero my culinary skills could have been, not to mention that cooking involves heat.
I stayed up until 8PM with chin, not knowing that I have a wedding to attend to at 7PM. In other words I missed the wedding, or I intentionally just have to miss the wedding. It’s like my subconscious delivered a verdict that I must stay with chin. My dead cell phone must agree, I received quite a few missed calls from Poch, Mike, Rey earlier that evening. Of course I was willing to attend the wedding to show my support to a friend, I just couldn’t ignore the busyness at chin’s place that time, and I could not force myself out to escape. I could have crawled away if I had to, but I did not.
As soon as I thought of the wedding, a few questions came running through my head. What’s gonna happen next? How can one handle all the peer pressure? etc, a few questions being directed to a friend. Overall, the one answer that I got as I quote him “Let’s make the feeling rest in its proper place in my heart”. This seems positive, and I can feel the relief he obviously felt right now. I salute you my friend for having the braveness to control your thoughts and emotions towards all these. Instead of dwelling on the negative and terrifying possibilities of being alone, you step up, you survive and concentrated to give your support no matter how thorny it could have been for you.
No matter how unreasonable love can be, in the end we must be thankful that nothing within ourselves had been broken. People keep saying life is short. Maybe it will seem so when we’ve reached a certain age, but really life is short not to be happy for ourselves and for others. We have to experience something and learn a lot out from that experience. A few mishaps here and there, doesn’t mean the end of the world.
To this friend of mine, I guess with all these hysterics going on he should took a love sabbatical this time, for him to have enough time to reflect on things and move forward. First step, learn a sport like tennis maybe, and stick to it or surround yourself with friends.
To sum it all up, the birthday of chin was successful, the wedding was successful, however with a few bloopers to add flavor to both occasions.
I posted pix above taken at redsand and during the celebrations, and some pix from a trip to Badia Bridge the day after and an hour before the flight of Vil to Jeddah.
P.S. Happy Bday to Chin, Rey, and congratulations to S.
P.S to P.S. To Mike, finally you’re back, looking forward to a power lunch with you one of these days. Welcome back my friend.
