They remember you :)

I used to hear that name but I hardly know her aside from being my Nanang Ludy’s very bestfriend… After not seeing more than 27 years, who won’t get excited to see her. 

I observed just how my 85-year old Lolo and my 78-year old Lola fondly recall her and how she had been a part of their lives.  Last Saturday, our family warmly welcomes her with her family.  The warm embrace and kisses had finally end the 27 years of waiting… it was one touching moment I witnessed.  The long years gap have to be reconnected in 3 hours… they were all laughing as they remember those times… the suitors, the weddings, the classmates… and their lives… the friendship…

Usually every fiesta and special family gatherings, it’s our closest friends who regularly visit us even without invitation.  They just come for they are no longer guests… they’ve been family to us, too. 

That’s the reason why I seldom introduce my friends to my grandparents and my parents.  They keep names of those closest to us and they remember it.  Why?  They treat our friends as someone they can entrust us with… Every weekend, they always ask us “kamusta naman si … eh si … nagtetext pa ba sa inyo… nagkakausap ba kayo ni ganyan… hindi na pumupunta dito si … puntahan o dalawin mo minsan iyon… ” 

You wouldn’t believe it but sometimes our Lolo and Lola have more than “stored kwentos” than us about our friends J Galing noh?
And when it’s their old old friends who come and visit us, you will actually see and feel the "excitement" in them for the rare opportunity of having their friends introduced to us… "Naku kaibigang kaibigan ko ito mula pa noong panahon ng mga Hapon." [Kamusta namang haba ng friendship na iyon]

Welcome back Luvy and Iset!
Absent: Ate Rech, Mhy and Rodz and Ageng [Hinahanap kayo!]