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Sunday, January 01, 2006
Gil: So arrives another promise...
By Sandy Gil|
Sunday Dunes
* Last year, I made a BIG resolution. I promised myself that I would finally do what I had been meaning to do but have not gotten around to doing because I had made up all kinds of valid and lame excuses not to do it for the past five years.
WELCOME another year--2006!!! How quickly the days, weeks and months go by. And when the New Year fast approaches, everyone comes up with a piece of paper and a pen in hand to make new pledges and vows to ourselves for the coming year. This is what we call our New Year's Resolutions.
Whether we eventually fulfill these promises or not is totally beside the point. Perhaps this is because the promises are made only to ourselves (secretly and otherwise), so what the heck if we forget these by the first week of February!
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Last year, I made a BIG resolution. I promised myself that I would finally do what I had been meaning to do but have not gotten around to doing because I had made up all kinds of valid and lame excuses not to do it for the past five years (if you read this sentence in one breath, you will probably end up with an asthma attack--or worse yet, emphysema).
I promised myself to finally get a permanent home in Davao City, which I did... although it is still under construction, and I will probably be able to move in sometime February 2006.
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That decision was not easy... and by golly, gee-whiz, wow... neither was it cheap! But beyond the negotiation, the excruciating anxieties and apprehensions, as well as the pencil-pushing process, having gotten a permanent home in Davao City signifies some bond that cannot be easily broken or brushed aside.
I am leaving my birth home for good.
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There. I have said it for the entire world to know. It sort of makes me a bit nostalgic to think of it. And I comfort myself with the thought that it is not as if I am leaving my loved ones in Manila forever. It however means that my feet are now planted far, far away from them. And it will be in this Land Where Promises Do Come True where I will probably take my last breath.
(Dramatics aside, it will also mean I will be making airlines very rich in the coming years with more frequent trips to Manila. Sigh.)
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Having fulfilled my New Year's Resolution last year, it is now time for new promises to be made. And I have made a list of five simple things I must remember do this year (instead of ten things since ten is too many promises for me to remember).
1. If this year, I feel symptoms of menopause, I promise not to be grouchy or commit suicide.
I must seriously prepare for this momentous occasion. It will be an exciting and challenging phase in this woman's life
2. I will not dye my hair.
I want to grow old gracefully. Someone should write a book on how to do this.
3. I will always smile at security guards and janitors to make them feel special.
Although I have always done this, I must be more conscious about it. It feels good to make others feel good.
4. I will not hoard or panic-buy groceries.
I must remember that I live alone. Meaning, I can only use up so much toilet paper.
5. I will clean my front and back doors as much as I clean the rest of my house.
We often forget that the doors to our homes are the first well wishers of our visitors.
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And so ends another year. If this reflecting on Sundays on Sunday Dunes will survive till 2007, then we can go back together to this 2006 New Year's Resolutions and find out whether promises do come true.
Or was getting a permanent home in 2005 a fluke?
Oh, by the way, we must be conscious about writing dates on our checkbooks. It's 2006 and not 2005.
In the meantime... goodbye, 2005 and hello, 2006! Happy New Year!!!
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