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| Christopher, Jonisis, yours truly ^^, Annielyn, Elizabeth, Maeshielle, Roan, Mark O., Mark B., Louis, John Rey, and Patrick (Photo: Alejandro) @ Celtic Lounge on our 4th Reunion |
“The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.” ― Richard Paul Evans
It's hard to come to grip with the past.The thought may welcome us with our very good friend/s way back or to some unlikable and dangerous enemies. It can even be both at the same time, something of which occasions like class reunions abundantly remind us.
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| Juvanne, Patrick, Mark O., Alejandro, Josephine, yours truly ^^, Roan and Annielyn @ Regina Swimming Pool |
When you attended school in a community that easily could pass, the drama and subtext of youth can easily be played out all over again. Those you knew as children are now grown men and women, with families, jobs, marriages, mortgages and all the other attendant responsibilities of adulthood that once seemed so far off but are now the facts of everyday life.
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| Kapoy nah'g ngalan ani nila. :D |
Reunion is a time when romances are rekindled, scores are settled, and grudges are forgiven. It is when people can quickly fall back into long, old forgotten patterns that for a brief moment are all too familiar once again. Reunion is a trip back in time where the anxieties of the present can be made to disappear, only to be replaced by the anxieties of the past which, no longer important, and are now much easier to handle.
People grow. People change. Yet there is an innate sense of self that is always there which reunions can bring out in ways that years of therapy cannot. The girl whom you loved silently from afar is happy to see you and quite interested in what has happened in your life. The boy who was your teenaged passion is now grown and bald and overweight and you cannot for the life of you remember why you were ever together and so many other blah blah blah.... The teacher who had a major influence in your life barely remembers you at all. hahahah! We come to such events not knowing what to expect and can be surprised at the outcome. It is an escape from daily life that produces shadows and illusions of what might have been had only.
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| Christopher, Mario, Pricy, Apple 'n Annabie @ Regina Swimming Pool on THEIR ( ky wa ko nakabalo aning panahona) 3rd Reunion |
Reunion is also a reminder that material success is not an absolute pathway to happiness. That is a lie repeated daily by an entertainment culture that shows a marked preference for reigning in Hell over serving in Heaven.
Happiness comes from success but from success of different types. A quiet life of intellectual pursuits which may not provide much in the way of economic reward can, for the right person, be the source of abundant joy. Children can be a source of a joy so tremendous that they are inarguable worth all the sacrifices required to get them off the launching pad of life.
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| Mark O., Mikko, Juvanne, Christopher, Webster, and Mario |
Nothing is for certain. Good girls go bad. Bad boys do good. The unhappy find peace and the restless settle. Hope is not a "thing with feathers" but seeing how your classmates have turned out, for good and for bad.
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| Roan, yours truly ^^, Aries, Stellar, Alejandro, Mark P., Josephine, Carmel (sorry sa blurry hahahah!) @ Gat's Bar on our 4th Reunion |
You cannot escape the past and you cannot relive it. You can, however, enjoy it. So to IV-Jade class of Ozamiz City National High School 2006 of which is composed of greatly unique individuals, here's a tap on all of our shoulders for being able to reconnect and re-establish our long forgotten good old days, and for making the bond thicker than what it had been before. Indeed I am proud to know each of you, for you had taken your own minute ways of making me the person that I am today! Let's look forward for the many class reunions we are still to celebrate!^^
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