…pALaKa…

when can one say that one has matured?  when can one claim that another has grown up?

a professor once told our class that when a parent leaves to work abroad and stays there for several years then return here, the tendency is that the parent would usually forget that his/her children have already grown up.  thus, some of his/her pasalubong might not be anymore applicable or should i say acceptable to the children’s standards.  if a parent leaves when the child is still three and returns when the child is already thirteen, it would be noticed that some of the parent’s pasalubong consists of  things that only 3-year-olds will like.

the same scenario also happens to us at times.  sometimes, when we meet old friends, they would see us as the same person they know a couple or several years ago.  it would be fine if we were known as nice people back then.  but what if we lived to have a bad reputation?  and we were known only because of that reputation?  now that’s where the sad part would lie.  "uy kumusta na?  mabaho ka pa rin siguro ano?  grow up pare.  tapos na yung mga araw na iyon.  act like a man."  this is just an example of the lines we may hear.  people would just tell us this or that without even thinking if we are still the same person they used to know.  it hurts.

maaari ngang may mga baho ako at mga hindi magagandang bagay na nagawa sa nakaraan.  marahil ang iba sa mga taong nakasalamuha ko ay nakilala ako sa mga bahong iyon.  ngunit hindi makatarungang husgahan ako ayon sa mga bahong iyon lalo na kung ang humusga ay hindi naman nasaksihan ang paglaki ko sa loob ng ilang taon.

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