It’s Really Goodbye

Posted on | September 7, 2009 | 2 Comments

So sad. My sister told me that they’re finally building condos on the property where we grew up. As she put it, it’s like losing an old and dear friend. Too true. I had hopes of maybe taking the boys there one day and though the house was gone I could still sort of show them the rest of it. “Mommy’s guava tree” or “mommy’s lanzones tree that was planted the day she was born” and such. No more. At least they saved grandma’s big trees. They even took all of the old trees down.

I’ll have to blog about what was there so that I can share that with the boys. They would have enjoyed growing up in a big place like that, full of trees to climb, lots of hiding places, warehouses full of wires and gadgets to poke through.

It hurt to hear we had to say goodbye to the old house with the old, narra wood floors that I would lay on to feel the drafts of air from the floor below. Goodbye to the library room that used to be the sewing room that caught the heat of the setting sun until they built tall condos to block our view of the sunset over Manila Bay.

Now, goodbye to the garden and all its memories. Sad.

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2 Responses to “It’s Really Goodbye”

  1. Mai
    October 3rd, 2009 @ 3:04 am

    How sad. Last June, my parents, Kyla and I went to my birthplace. I plugged in the address where we used to live and there were no more houses. There was a YMCA and a skatepark. How sad. Of course this house we only lived in for a year, so I can’t imagine how you’re feeling since it’s the house you grew up in.

  2. phisch
    October 3rd, 2009 @ 3:09 am

    Well, I’m mostly over it. What’s neat is that Google Maps for Manila are still not updated. I can still see the trees from overhead! hehe. I’m just glad to know that all of this is temporary and that was just one reminder of that.

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