First Love at McDonald's

A good friend of mine and I were talking about a miscellany of stuff about home, work and other whatnots last week, when she mentioned about the latest McDonald's TV commercial and how she thinks I can relate to its story.

“Umm, what commercial?”

I think I’m one of the few, if not, the only one who hasn’t viewed the said TVC on this side of the world. As I’ve mentioned before, I don’t watch TV much. Aside from blogging and roaming around the malls, I spend my free time at home sleeping, endlessly fixing things in my room, reading, listening to music, drawing or doing other artsy stuff, and exchanging silly stories with big tickles with my Little Lady.

Though I occasionally sit for a while in the living room when the little one is watching Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place or The Fairly OddParents on cable, that’s the maximum extent of dosage I get from TV, aside from watching DVDs whenever time permits.

Curious, I searched the TVC on YouTube, and here is what I got:



She is right; I can somehow relate to the ad.

The lead characters were childhood friends. And then years after when they saw each other again, the girl already has a family (ouch). The emotion being presented in the end by both the guy and the girl signifies a hint of regret of what might have been. The guy, who was in love all the while, ended the TVC with the line: “At kahit hindi naging kami sa huli, siya pa rin ang first love ko.” (And although we didn’t end up together, she is still my first love).

Well, don’t we all have a bunch of tiny regrets for opportunities and chances in the past that passed us by? For those that we freely let go of and chose not to take, the ones that we wanted to take, but didn’t have enough courage to pursue, and for chances we took but didn’t turn out the way we wanted them to.

Hopefully, from this year on, we can seize and maximize every opportunity that comes our way in all areas of our life. Create them, if we must; not only for ourselves but for others as well. Give chance to all possibilities we can embrace.

Now, how did I relate to the ad again? *sighs*


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Birthday Minnie

I haven’t been around for a while.

Basically, I’m trying to achieve some normalcy in my offline life when I took a little leave online. I’ve been an overflowing bag of mixed emotions lately and I’m trying to sort things out one step at a time. Yeah, some last quarter of the year drama, huh.

But let’s not get into that.

Today has been a tiring day. The Little Lady went to Girl Scout Camp in school, so we both woke up early on a Saturday morning. I left her in the school gym at 8:00 am; took breakfast at Wendy’s while waiting for the malls to open; did a little shopping for Christmas presents and art materials for both the Little Lady and I; picked up something at the printing shop; fetched her at 3:00 pm and grabbed some snacks at McDonald’s before finally heading home.

Around the same time last year, I’m almost finished with my Christmas shopping. But this year, my hoarding skills have been put to rest and I wonder why I seemed to have lost the zest for early shopping.

Hard times? Not really. I can always find an expensive looking present for a quarter of the price. It’s a gift that I believe I’m born with. :) So I guess this still points to the last quarter of the year drama. Oh, well...

Apart from whiling my time away at the mall, I was also there to get my pretty little niece, Gia, a gift for her 2nd birthday. It’s her birthday today, but she’ll be having a party tomorrow at Jollibee.

Yesterday, I made her this rush birthday Minnie Mouse tarpaulin that I'd like to share for Scrapbook Saturday (although this is not technically a scrap page, but I already missed 2 Saturdays! Sorry guys!):

Pretty babies Gia and "Ta-te"

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When I Miss Someone…

We get hit by this virus once in a while.

Nobody gets spared; so we all get our share of melancholia and inexplicable longing over someone or something.

Fair enough?

While I lay down sick in my bed, my body was able to get the overdue rest it needed. I can almost hear it saying “Hey, slow down, relax and take a break, will ya?!”

It would have been much better if it came from someone I care deeply about. It would have given a warmer feeling if it came from another human being who cares back.

So I lay there, with my eyes closed, having my mandatory bed rest, but my mind is fully awake.

And then it hit me.

I was given the chance to remember people I never realized I miss a lot. I was too preoccupied that I lost the thought for a while.

Never mind if those people hurt you in the past. Never mind if they broke their promises. Never mind if they missed to respond to your messages. Never mind if they are too busy to show they care. Never mind if they failed you. Never mind if they took you for granted. Never mind if they broke your heart into smithereens...

At this point, you don’t mind. Because all feelings of disappointment dissipate into thin air the moment we miss someone. Shortcomings get instantly erased. For a while, we become defenseless and vulnerable.

If you have a forgiving heart just like mine, who don’t keep a record of wrongs for too long, those people are in luck - they get prayers instead of curses; they get a hug instead of a punch in the face when I do see them (yes, I punch when I get really angry! ;-P).

I’ve always conditioned myself not to linger over unhappy thoughts and to focus on the good, if not, great things that I’m blessed with. Because whenever I think of the good, it always compensates for whatever it is that's missing in my life. Besides, I trust that what I don’t have now will be given in God’s perfect time, so why fret?

It’s no big secret; but basically, that frame of mind helps me get through.

When I think of the people I miss, it always brings a smile, a chuckle and a few tears rolling down my cheeks. They have been, after all, once and will always be a part of me.

What do you do when you miss someone?


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