Seven years ago...
When infirmity deprived you by experiencing life to the fullest, you'll be thirsty of what life could offer. Your mind will wonder how beautiful life could be within your what if's. You'll become a wanderer of your own fantasy of the outside world as you indite yourself in it.
The moment he kneel in front of me, reaching my swollen ankle. I was startled, well all of us are always startled with strangers.
Spending half of my life inside a plain white walls, uncomfy beddings, plain clothing and plain emptiness.
I was never blinded how cruel the world is and the one who dwells in it. I know which and whom are preys and predators. I'm aware who are felonious and decorous in this world.
But the moment he settled his oceanic eyes on my own topaz eyes, I wasn't startled by the fact that he is a stranger. I was startled because I wasn't startled with a stranger for the first time.
"Let's find your place." he offered with a smile plastered on his face.
Staring at his stretched hand, "let come what may" an author had said and after a split moment of seconds. I thought, he could be the first "come" that I'll let "what may" for the first time in my life.
Some moments in infirmity, there's a time we wake up asking "when will be the last day of our lives?". Then, suddenly, as another day flipped, we found ourselves silently pleading for another day for ourselves.
So I reach his hand and let it's softness warmed mine. I only live once after all, I silently shrugged as I follow him.
SEEING how the happiness on my face reflected on his radiant eyes and the music of my laughter harmonizing with his. After a long years, I could finally call myself human who experience not only life of bitterness but also, life of honeybees.
"Three days, after three days kung magkikita tayong muli. I'll date you."
I know I caught him off guard, but I wanted to keep this happiness. Sa kadahilanang alam ko'y mararanasan ko lamang, if I'll bet a risk with him.
"I don't even know your name, paano ka makakasigurong magkikita tayo?" I immediately smiles at him.
"That's how I believed the world works, everybody may think that the world is huge but I don't think so. We are bigger than the world, and if we believes in it. In the middle of the crowd, fate will open our eyes to see."
A vigorous optimism I always had in mind while staying inside that white empty walls with only the smell of
hell reeking inside the room.
ENJOYING the taste of freedom within the last three days, my mind never failed to mesmerize how beautiful his smile is. How his presence made me felt at ease and also, how that beautiful stranger keeps me from missing and remembering him in every places and spots.
The sounds of the loud horns of yellow buses coming in and out from the terminal brought me back to my own reverie while standing in front of many buses with different destination.
Every destination are certainly foreign to me and as a runaway slash a tourist without a self-itinerary, I am having difficulties in choosing which bus should I ride. Later on that moment, I found myself stepping closer to the bus named Maabunda.
I was tapping my fingers above my lap as I grove with the song of The Beatles 'Hey Jude' while enjoying the view of an infinite mountains.
Hearing that these infinite mountains are just one of the most astonishing sites to enjoy your vacation in Maabunda, sa di malamang dahilan his face with his beautiful eyes and smile start drilling on my mind. For that reason, that made me remember of the 'after three days' I told him.
