G I F T
Doctors or dentists are luckier, because medical rule recommends
that we should visit them at least twice a year. For Angel, our godchild whose
mother is a close friend of us way back in college (until she fell in love and
had a child, sacrificed school about the same time she turned 18), we only get
to visit them every December of each year in time for her birthday and
Christmas. So annually, I make it a point to arrange a date when our circle of
friends can drop our gifts personally at their house and have some catching up
with Angel and her mom– our college friend turned desperate housewife.
As much as I hate it, there are a few friends (also
godparents) who didn’t show up with us but I hope they take the time from their
busy schedules and personal issues to be able to visit our ‘inaanak’ before the
end of year. For us present, the ‘catching up’ this year turned out to be more
of catching up with the fellow visitors’ Christmas party in their company rather
than the hostess’s life as a mother and wife. We had so limited time and I just
hope the few hours we had then could have been spent talking about them than
us. But then, I understand.
At the end of the visit, I realized even more how much I
should value my friendship with my ‘college-friend-turned-desperate-housewife’
and my responsibility to her daughter as a godparent. I will always remember
the college days we would sit with our pregnant friend in class and walk next
to her proudly while people are looking at her in a maternity dress. And I will
never get tired of giving gifts to my ‘inaanak’ and most importantly visiting
them every December.
Angel is now in kindergarten while her mom is planning to work
in Makati to
provide a better future for her family. Wow, she’s gonna be supermom soon and that just makes
me admire her even greater.
