No Place Like Home: Surigao
Three years and a half in Manila and missing my hometown, Surigao. Stupid of me to have realized this only now..after the 10-day party-full days. I thought my mind is set for the new direction I took 3 and half years back. I’ve even missed 2 fiestas easily, with minor excuses. Believing my heart is now in another city. I was wrong. Dont get me wrong, I’ve had my share of good times and a taste of success in Manila too though my first 2 months was a hell of an adjustment trying to fit in to the new culture of a fast-paced life and discrimating crowd. Things came so fast here, as I recall, I was happy to have been promoted and regularized with only after 2 mos in my first company BellTel, pirated by Digitel on my 4th month which I also got my first car(some people misconstrued me as having a sugar dad for that haha, it was one hell of a stupid gossip, come to think of it, which gossip isint?), performed and bonded with the key officers, pirated again by a local IS after a year which I had my first experience in the vendor side, this is where I found my place under the sun, people were warm, they’re my second family in this strange city. Then finally i moved to my current company where I got my dream job, actually it’s the same with the previous one,except that the perks are incredible. Travel abroad, leisure, pleasure haha all expenses being paid for. I have friends, from Digitel, to WTS and now with Huawei. They’re all nice too but quite different. Not the wild type haha. So all I do in the past years were not actually the same with the usual thing in Suirgao. Despite this, I really thought I don’t ever want to go back and live for life in my hometown. If not bec of my family. But this 10-day recent fiesta vacation changed all that. Now, all I can think of is the loneliness of being away from my family, friends and Surigao itself. Its never a nice feeling to be distracted from emotions.esp after declining a great opportunity to come back which comes with a great offer too, so stupid of me. This is the first time that i was away for long and never missing my office or work. I usually wanna go back to work after 4 days of travel, but this time..i just wanted to stay..forever, no place like home indeed. but do i have a choice? =)
