feedback on the previous posting..

on the poem Last Will and Testament..

 

This Christmas time I remember the many Christmasses I spent abroad missing home. It is very curious that it takes absence to make us appreciate our hometown.

But it is explainable, how can we miss something that's near? When I was growing up in the barrio, all we were talking was how we could get out and go to the city or abroad, and make ourselves something big.

I guess this life has its way of teaching us how to love. Christians tell us that this life is a passage to the next. Life is all about love. So, missing home when one is away might be one way of life teaching us how to love, in this case our hometown, our culture, where we come from.

It would be really nice if we can travel at the speed of light; then we can be back home, heck we can even live back in the barrio and work abroad.

I wish technology will make leaps regarding this, even not at the speed of light just even like a 2 hour travel between opposite sides of the earth.

That sure is fun. When will that happen? I believe it will, its just a matter of time. -- Longwaybye

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We all love to travel..Some travel for work's sake, getting customers, contacts, ideas, etc. I love traveling, especially on a long distance flight where you know that the plane will be landing in the Manila International Airport..The most exciting part is when you see the map on the TV screen  showing the map of Luzon and your plane is traveling the north to south aerial corridor of  Ilocos-Manila .. The best part of course is looking through the window as the plane passes by Manila and ends up at the Airport in Paraniaque, Rizal, if my bearings are right...

The elation of arriving home is really exhilarating..Then it all goes downhill after a couple of days..It goes uphill again a few days before the return home..In between arrival and departure is a kind of lull and quiet..

But each holiday is never the same as the previous one..I missed writing notes when I am there. Then I find it a hard time trying to recall day to day events upon arriving back in Canada..

I hope I could live a longer time to see Toronto-Manila travel as fast as Asingan-Manila..And at a good ticket rate. Then we could go home every week end and go back to work in Toronto Monday morning. Won't this be cool? ---#