It always happens that way. Just when I think I'm okay and not pining for home anymore, it comes banging its ugly head on me. Unexpectedly.
Last night, Daddy E inherited my sis' old phone memory stick because a friend gave her a new one for her birthday. And while we were getting ready to sleep, Roo was jumping around and bouncing on the bed as usual, Daddy E decided to play some music from my sis' mp3 files. I don't even know the artist, some Kris Lawrence guy if I remember it right, but as soon as the Tagalog ballad hit my ear, pangs of homesickness rear ended me. Made me miss home. Suddenly, I wished I was in the Philippines.
Daddy E, totally unaware of what was going on inside me, started saying, "So good to listen to Tagalog songs again, ‘no? Makes me feel like I’m in Manila again, riding the jeepney.”
I said, “Let’s go home!” And he’s like, “Yeah! Forget about going to Japan" (we’ve been planning to visit Japan). And Roo was like, “But mommy, we’re home! This is our home!”
Yes, I feel at home here. And my home is now here with Daddy E and Baby Roo. But my heart will always yearn for that place—no matter how far I go, or how long I stay away, that place I know as home, will always be home.
10 comments:
sabi nga, you can take the pinoy out of the philippines, but you cannot take the philippines out of the pinoy.
Zherwin, totoo talaga yan! kahit minsan anong la-it ng Pinoy sa mga nangyayari sa Pinas, uuwi at uuwi pa rin. And masarap pa rin ang feeling pagnaka apak ulit sa sariling bansa.
do you know that i still live in the same house i grew up in? but somehow i know what you mean. whenever i go for short or long trips, i always look forward to going home. what more kayo who lived years away from here.
really Hae? is that the same house when we were in BAA? eh di mahahanap pa pala kita! hehe.
You know how it is when you live abroad, then you go to another country, then you go back home... except that it's not really home because it's not the Philippines.
I'm very homesick right now too and I want to go home. :)
Toe, I know what you mean. Hang in there, time flies naman eh. Eh di ba you're going home soon?
hello! thank you for dropping by my site. im anne from bacolod city. taga diin ka IA?
there have been several job opportunities abroad for me, but up till now, i am too scared to stay away from home, and that is bacolod. life here is quiet, slow, laid back. i dont know when i will be ready to trade it with life abroad. though recently hubby and i have been entertaining the thought of migrating, for financial reasons.
Hi Anne! Nice to see you here too! Ako taga Roxas City, about two hours away from Iloilo City.
Yeah most people migrate for financial reasons. As long as you're with your family, I think it won't hurt to try life abroad. Life away from home can get pretty lonely, but it can also be fun and educational.
Me, I've been yearning to go back to the simple and quiet lifestyle back home--I want to raise my son away from the big city, but right now, there's just no way we can do that.
There's no place like home talaga. I feel the same way.
I don't get homesick as often but sometimes the smallest thing triggers it - a song, a food craving, etc.
Tara, uwi tayo! :D
Greymom, with me, usually it's mostly food craving that makes me think of home. It's like that was the first time I had this intense longing to go home because of a song!
Sige, uwi tayo!
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