If you're from anywhere in CAMANAVA, I bet you know this place. Ever Gotesco Grand Central. Two decades ago, this was the place where we ride the LRT going to 'bang-bang' whenever we'll visit our in-laws every Christmas and Holy week. Not much has changed, the steep way from the main street to the mall, the stores beside it, it all stayed the same.
While I was walking down to the mall, I can't stop remembering how my mom would hold my hand to help me pass this walk way, while my brother teases me. That short time made me miss every weekend with my parents in the mall, eating foodies from new restos and doing the grocery. I have missed just going to the cinema with them, I even missed us visiting my titas and titos, riding the LRT, I miss commuting with them. Those were the days I don't know how to commute yet, those days I cry whenever I was left behind.
But everything's different now..reality bites as I entered the mall. I'm 24 now, I even live all by myself today. I don't go out with my parents anymore, I do the groceries with Fritz. I don't watch the movies with mama and papa anymore, I watch it with friends. I know how to ride jeepneys and buses and trains alone today. I am all grown up!
These were one of the days when you never want to grow up. These days when you wish you'd still be your mother's princess. The days when you long to hear your father's corny jokes and just laugh..When you realized that you wanted to go back to how it was before, when they fetch you to school, ready your 'baon', give you your allowance, buy you your foods and clothes and shelter you with the warmth of their love.
Reality check! Again, I'm 24 and I know that they know I can already take good care of myself.
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