TODAY is the last Sunday of the month, and it is also the last Sunday of Summer.
And, three days from today, the month of frolics, fiestas, and reunions shall have ended. As expected, everyone is going back to his normal senses. But memories of the past thirty days can never be forgotten. It remains solid and keeps on reverberating in everyone’s mind.
The laughter and joys in so short a time companionship experienced during a reunion with brothers, sisters, close relatives and especially with parents who had been missed for many years shall have come to an end.
Simply put, what remains are memories of the past and the rescheduling of another reunion.
Short Cuts is not an exemption to this feeling.
His family of five brothers and a sister had a reunion. With both father and mother having joined their Creator for more than two decades already, they agreed for a reunion last week in a beach resort in the eastern town of Anda.
Incidentally, however, three of Short Cuts’ elder brothers had already joined the Heavenly Father. As a consequence, only their sons and daughters attended, except the sons and daughters of one brother who failed the affair.
The activities in that reunion began in providing them transportation from the wharfs at Jagna and the City of Tagbilaran and in assigning them to their respective room accommodations.
And because the reunion coincided with the fiesta of the barangay, their respective meals before the reunion proper were also assigned to the residences of relatives in the barangay.
The real reunion took place on Sunday, May 21, a day after the barangay fiesta. It started with a Thanksgiving Mass at the graveyard of their parents. After taking dinner at the residence of Short Cuts’ sister, the families proceeded to the agreed site.
It was during dinner that all participants were made to deliver their respective feelings of longing for years of absence with one another. They were ONE in expressing their respective desires to have a yearly reunion.
On that particular occasion, no one ever sported a frowning face. Everyone was happy. The hall was filled with shouts and laughter. It was not the monopoly of the old generation. The youngsters, including the kids, joined the merriment.
Imagine, the affair began as early as 6:30 in the evening, and it lasted until 1:00 o’clock dawn the following day. It was, indeed, “An Affair to Remember”!
But, the saying goes, Nobody runs forever.
Everything has its end.
So that on the following day, everyone was preparing for home. The family of Short Cuts’ brother has to leave for Cagayan de Oro City and his nephew and better half have to leave also for Misamis Occidental.
Short Cuts could just silently mumble to himself: Maayo pag wa-a na lang mag reunion!
