Merry Christmas to everyone...
The other day while walking down the bridge leading to the boulevard facing the pristine blue/green sea, not at this hour in the evening where the sea looked a dark menacing rage, I came across Yu and Mi. Two very pretty looking kids, perhaps spending their little time together facing the sea, or perhaps they just needed time out for themselves.
" Merry Christmas," I said.
" Merry Christmas to you too sir," replied Yu.
I nod at the two and keep walking. The evenings are a nice time to be walking hearing the sound of the waves crashing against the breakers. The days haven't been like before where I can come by the boulevard and find a friend sitting by, someone to chat about imperfections/ perfections, the world's moved on. I moved on. But today it was about coming back to a place that I used to be about and spend some time. After a leisure stroll, around the boulevard I come to a park bench under a light which was half working, lit my face into half, right opposite of where Mi and Yu are sitting.
" Its a nice day today."
" Yes, sir it is. You don't come here often." Mi says as she holds onto Yu's arm tighter.
A little annoyed but forgiven, this used to be my place and now here are 2 youngsters owning the place.
" I used to come here often, no more... Life moved on and I couldn't leave the train."
" You moved on," Yu, is smarter than his face says him to be," Life doesn't make people move, people move life."
I had to stop and stare at this young boy. He was Yu, full of promise and life... He was me, I was full of life when I would walk these roads. The cobbled stones glistening in the moonlight would have been a great place to reminisce and think. Now its just a forgotten place where I have come to check on... CHECK ON.
We talk a bit, Yu, Mi and me. We chat about everything that we could think about. Me sitting half dark with half my face invisible to the couple. They are sitting with the light in their face and I can see a very pretty couple.
I turn around I can see that I am here for no good, looking for lost days. I had moved on. The world moved on. Nothing is the same and I would be fooling myself into coming to the same place and looking for everything to be the way they are. You move ahead in life and leave it to the next set of people, kids, our future, yours and mine to take over the space. We cannot let ourselves hold on to the same spot because then there is nuthin to share with Yu and Mi. But tonight we have things to share, my memories of the place are like their present and they shared in the little laughs of the old times. I am not much older to be thinking of moving on... but moved on alright.
" Don't you have a home to go back?" I say, "Isn't it getting late for you."
" No, We rather stay a little longer," Mi says," It isn't the same as in your time. There's no where to go."
i move ahead a little, my face they can see now clearly, " Why?"
Mi looks at Yu and continues - " There's no where to go. the whole place seems to hate us. We are different. We are planning to be here as long till we can."
Do we hate the world so much that we cannot create a world safe and beautiful for the ones to follow. Do we have to keep coming back looking for a past that has moved on with us. Leave the world to the children of the future.
I wanted to tell them something encouraging but there was nothing to say because the only reason they would be there is me. I stand up and move to Yu and Mi, I look at Yu and say. "You can have Mi, you got to promise me that you will look after her."
And I turn to walk and i know that Yu will look after Mi. And I have to move on ahead with my life. My daughter has Yu to look after her.
P.S: I wish we could actually do that to our daughters and sisters today. I wish I wasn't part of this world with all the bull shit that people do these days.
The other day while walking down the bridge leading to the boulevard facing the pristine blue/green sea, not at this hour in the evening where the sea looked a dark menacing rage, I came across Yu and Mi. Two very pretty looking kids, perhaps spending their little time together facing the sea, or perhaps they just needed time out for themselves.
" Merry Christmas," I said.
" Merry Christmas to you too sir," replied Yu.
I nod at the two and keep walking. The evenings are a nice time to be walking hearing the sound of the waves crashing against the breakers. The days haven't been like before where I can come by the boulevard and find a friend sitting by, someone to chat about imperfections/ perfections, the world's moved on. I moved on. But today it was about coming back to a place that I used to be about and spend some time. After a leisure stroll, around the boulevard I come to a park bench under a light which was half working, lit my face into half, right opposite of where Mi and Yu are sitting.
" Its a nice day today."
" Yes, sir it is. You don't come here often." Mi says as she holds onto Yu's arm tighter.
A little annoyed but forgiven, this used to be my place and now here are 2 youngsters owning the place.
" I used to come here often, no more... Life moved on and I couldn't leave the train."
" You moved on," Yu, is smarter than his face says him to be," Life doesn't make people move, people move life."
I had to stop and stare at this young boy. He was Yu, full of promise and life... He was me, I was full of life when I would walk these roads. The cobbled stones glistening in the moonlight would have been a great place to reminisce and think. Now its just a forgotten place where I have come to check on... CHECK ON.
We talk a bit, Yu, Mi and me. We chat about everything that we could think about. Me sitting half dark with half my face invisible to the couple. They are sitting with the light in their face and I can see a very pretty couple.
I turn around I can see that I am here for no good, looking for lost days. I had moved on. The world moved on. Nothing is the same and I would be fooling myself into coming to the same place and looking for everything to be the way they are. You move ahead in life and leave it to the next set of people, kids, our future, yours and mine to take over the space. We cannot let ourselves hold on to the same spot because then there is nuthin to share with Yu and Mi. But tonight we have things to share, my memories of the place are like their present and they shared in the little laughs of the old times. I am not much older to be thinking of moving on... but moved on alright.
" Don't you have a home to go back?" I say, "Isn't it getting late for you."
" No, We rather stay a little longer," Mi says," It isn't the same as in your time. There's no where to go."
i move ahead a little, my face they can see now clearly, " Why?"
Mi looks at Yu and continues - " There's no where to go. the whole place seems to hate us. We are different. We are planning to be here as long till we can."
Do we hate the world so much that we cannot create a world safe and beautiful for the ones to follow. Do we have to keep coming back looking for a past that has moved on with us. Leave the world to the children of the future.
I wanted to tell them something encouraging but there was nothing to say because the only reason they would be there is me. I stand up and move to Yu and Mi, I look at Yu and say. "You can have Mi, you got to promise me that you will look after her."
And I turn to walk and i know that Yu will look after Mi. And I have to move on ahead with my life. My daughter has Yu to look after her.
P.S: I wish we could actually do that to our daughters and sisters today. I wish I wasn't part of this world with all the bull shit that people do these days.
