Early morning, almost daily I take my breakfast at McDonald’s at the Nepo area here in Angeles City. I am not really fond of burgers or mcmuffins. I can’t even be proud of the brewed coffee of this particular chain store because it’s almost tasteless, but I frequent the place because I meet my friends there and discussions are varied. The most interesting topics are our past adventures and romances.
Of course you have heard that song, NO OTHER LOVE by Jo Stafford, if you’re in your senior years. If not ask Siri or google. Those years when jukeboxes were installed on certain corner of a restaurant or a kiosk, and insert ten centavos and there you have it. It’s either, Joni James, Patti Paige,Doris Day, Teresa Brewer, Steve Lawrence, Tony Bennet, Vic Damone or Mario Lanza spinning. The lyrics of most songs are about love and romance.
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? Romance is another thing. As it it's in a song, 'when you're in love, it's the loveliest night of the year'. Me and you experienced that sometime in our lives. I had my share. I did. It helped me a lot when I was writing comics’ scripts which I submitted to several publications at the time I was a student in University of Sto. Tomas. The hopelessly romantics are many in our midst. Maybe you are one of them.
I am not really an ardent fan of K-drama , but many Pinoys now watch their movies mostly on Netflix. There are millions of adoring Pinoy fans of the flicks churned in South Korea. Remember Crash Landing on You and Imagine You and Me? They broke box office records. When I was still in shorts I sometimes hitched a ride on a passenger jeepney driven by Tatang Cosme plying the Porac- Angeles route just to watch a movie, either Devry, Marte or Paraiso theater. One I still remember was a movie starring our cabalen from Lubao and his screen partner Carmen Rosales. Maalaya Mo Kaya. No I don’t remember the whole. Only the love scenes.
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 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 heart is to be first to be heard as the fetus is being developed in the pregnant mother's womb. Even when you are asleep, while all the organs in the body stop functioning in the meanwhile, the heart never stop and still beats constantly. Same thing about love. We will never stop loving till the day we breathe our last.