LET'S hold our horses in the meanwhile and stop arguing about the aberrations in the SEA games.
Let's ignore the ramblings of Senator Franklin Drilon. Let's just sneeze and shrug our shoulders on the explanations of Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano. Stop discussions about President Duterte sacking Vice President Leni Robredo as drug czar. Let us talk about LOVE instead.
Once the ber months will start we begin counting fingers. Radio programs will start making a countdown. Then some eager beavers disc jockeys start playing Christmas carols. "Give Love on Christmas Day" is my all-time favorite. The overseas Filipinos are thinking about simbang gabi, suman, bibingka, and puto bumbong. One who have been to four season countries are dreaming of White Christmas.
Now let's proceed talking about love. One thing certain in all of us, we never stop loving. (Caring is another thing). Till our last breath, we will love our family, isn't it? Loving the family is a great equalizer between the haves and the have nots. Example. It is the same wonderful feeling for both the richest man in the world and the ditch digger when the favorite grandson is in tow and on your way to n ice cream stand. The joy on the lips of the boy is your joy.
Romance is another thing. As it it's in a song, 'when you're in love, it's the loveliest night of the year'. Every adult has his or her own stories to tell about courtship, crushes and the first kiss. You and me experienced that in certain periods in our lives. (If only you can listen to the love stories of my friends from Wednesday Club in their youth it will either make you sad or give the loudest laughter).
You should one day ask Rico Guilas, the former public works director to repeat his story about Lot. My friends Martin Vitug and Jess Nicdao tears moisten their eyes because of a love story narrated by Rico about an older man and his fantasy. Did you know, according to Rico every time he meets Atty. Arlene Buan, the latter will mention Lot. The lawyer heard Rico when he told the story in a fellowship at Ribeye restaurant sometime ago.
I love going to movies with romantic themes. My second choice are the action movies and even if you pay me, I won't see a horror thriller. It makes fall in love whenever I am in a cinema with those Nicholas Sparks movies. People like me who are in senior years still woo and make us "kilig" when the drama in its pitch, the sweethearts in the celluloid screen met and fell in love and make tight embrace and do the sweetest kiss ever. When they part and say the girl lost her lover, we also shed some tears, just like in the movie Ghost where Patrick Swayze died and his spirit can't leave behind the untended Demi Moore. Napkins, please.
One movie that till today lingers in my memory was the scene in that movie 'Love is a Many Splendored' where the very handsome William Holden played Mark Elliot an American reporter falling in love with Jennifer Jones who played Han Suyin. The appointed time and place was set and Jennifer was waiting for William, but the latter will never be able to make it because he was killed in his days covering the Korean war. More napkins, please.
The seniors among us will remember those romantic movies produced by then Sampaguita Pictures of the Vera Perezes starring mostly Gloria Romero and with Luis Gonzalez and Juancho Gutierrez as screen partners. Rita Gomez with Ric Rodrigo. Amalia Fuentes with Romeo Vasquez. Susan Roces with Jose Mari Gonzales. Handkerchiefs wiped those tears during tender scenes of love forlorn.
So let's pause for a moment. Start planning for the holidays.