Officially Missing You...

I heard this song playing on the FM radio yesterday while Honey and I were on the road...I used to like this song, I guess I still do but I thought that I can no longer relate to it (and hoped that I never will). But this morning while writing this post and thinking of a nice title for this post, this song popped in my mind.

"...And today, I'm officially missing you...." 

After 9 years and  (3 days short of) 3 months, I'm officially missing my first workplace, my 2nd home, my colleagues and the friends I've met on my stay. I was really devastated when I first heard of the news but I decided to stay positive and pray that I'll find a good job real soon. Still praying and job hunting. I know that God is always there for us. :)

Anyway, over the weekend we had our last Team Building-turned-Despedida for the team. We only had our first last year since we usually can't leave the office for a whole day with no one to man the desk. Our first ever (and also the last) overnight for this one. It was really fun although I was also sad to be parting with them real soon, I know that our friendship will remain and we'd still see each other since Cebu is just a small place. We can still always invite everyone on children's parties, Christenings, etc. :) Though working and seeing each other everyday is different. Oh well, some good things never last. Just want to share with you some of our pictures. We went to Medellin -- North of Cebu. It's the hometown of one of our teammates - Kuya Vince. And I'd like to thank him and his relatives for accommodating us. :) The place still has the feel of a "province" which was a welcome change from living in the city. And the people are sooooo nice and helpful! Of course, it wouldn't be successful and fun without the each of my teammates efforts and presence. ;)

Sorry, I got carried away talking (or should I say typing)...=p here are the pics (",)

 The team + the boatmen (less the photographer - Kuya Vince) - on our way to Gibitngil Island

 

Our destination... 

Almost there...^_^

The water is so clear you can see the bottom of the sea...

 make-shift tents/cottages made by locals for tourists...

 the sun is starting to set..

I'd also like to share with you a quote from Paulo Coelho's Closing Cycles which as also shared by my teammate, Uly, on his farewell letter...

Closing Cycles
-- By Paolo Coelho


One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. 


Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters, whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished. Did you lose your job? Has a loving relationship come to an end? Did you leave your parents' house? Gone to live abroad? Has a long-lasting friendship ended all of a sudden?


You can spend a long time wondering why this has happened. You can tell yourself you won't take another step until you find out why certain things that were so important and so solid in your life have turned into dust, just like that. But such an attitude will be awfully stressing for everyone involved: your parents, your husband or wife, your friends, your children, your sister, everyone will be finishing chapters, turning over new leaves, getting on with life, and they will all feel bad seeing you at a standstill.



None of us can be in the present and the past at 

the same time, not even 

when we try to understand 

the things that happen to 

us. What has passed will 

not return: we cannot for 

ever be children, late 

adolescents, sons that 

feel guilt or rancor 

towards our parents, 

lovers who day and night 

relive an affair with 

someone who has gone away 

and has not the least 

intention of coming back.

Things pass, and the best we can do is to let them really go away. 

That is why it is so 

important  however 

painful it maybe!) to 

destroy souvenirs, move, 

give lots of things away 

to orphanages, sell or 

donate the books you have 

at home. Everything in 

this visible world is a 

manifestation of the 

invisible world, of what 

is going on in our hearts 

and getting rid of 

certain memories also 

means making some room 

for other memories to 

take their place.

Let things go. Release them. Detach yourself from them. Nobody plays 

this life with marked 

cards, so sometimes we 

win and sometimes we 

lose. Do not expect 

anything in return, do 

not expect your efforts 

to be appreciated, your 

genius to be discovered, 

your love to be 

understood. Stop turning 

on your emotional 

television to watch the 

same program over and 

over again, the one that 

shows how much you 

suffered from a certain 

loss: that is only 

poisoning you, nothing 

else.

Nothing is more dangerous than not accepting love relationships that are 

broken off, work that is 

promised but there is no 

starting date, decisions 

that are always put off 

waiting for the ideal 

moment. Before a new 

chapter is begun, the old 

one has to be finished: 

tell yourself that what 

has passed will never 

come back. Remember that 

there was a time when you 

could live without that 

thing or that person 

nothing is irreplaceable, 

a habit is not a need. 

This may sound so 

obvious, it may even be 

difficult, but it is very 

important.

Closing cycles. Not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, 

but simply because that 

no longer fits your life. 

Shut the door, change the 

record, clean the house, 

shake off the dust. Stop 

being who you were, and 

change into who you are.

<3 <3 <3