You make it extra special

November 12, 2022

Its a sunny day this morning and its our neighbors 65th birthday, her housemates(haha) nieces and children prepared a simple birthday lunch for her.

Since we are not related by blood and we dont have anything to contribute, I just help in peeling off the potatoes and carrots and also wash the spoon and fork the plate to be used for lunch.

Theres no special visitors or did not invite even her siblings because theres no big preparation, its just whoever came or passed by they call and let them it.

They just prepare menudo, adobong manok, minukmok na saging, and rice with buko juice and softdrinks and thats it.

The highlight of the celebration is, her long lost daughter drop by, its a surprise for her, her daughter in law invited her daughter and she came to celebrate.

The story behind this daughter was after giving birth to her she was immediately adopted by another family(sahod lampin ang tawag nila)then when the girl turns 10years old she totally knew that she was adopted and since the family that adopted her belongs to the high class, she immediately ask them if they can search for her real parents.

Last year I think is the very first time they met, the family who adopted her accompany her even she was in her right age, I think she is in 20s now. They talk privately and secretly and my neighbor never opened up thier conversation to me as she was still keeping it a secret, not until today that she was like open to the public,my neighbor shares with me a bit of thier convo before and I think its about the question why her mother give/let her be adopt by other family.

My neighbor thought I dont know her history, but I am just keeping my mouth shut because its too personal to interfere.,but today she shared with me a brief answer to her daughters question I dont know if I can still give you the life that you deserve since I am just a farmer and your father abandoned me, thats why I let you be adopted by a family that belongs to the middle class and look are you now, you are successful and you can go anywhere you want and you have a good life. I hope you understand me.

Her daughter came around 1:30pm which she committed and she have with her a bouquet of red roses and a roll cake for her, she greeted her upon arriving and she was especially assisted by the celebrant and her half siblings. She stays 2 hours or more as they have family convo, share stories, but still you can see that she was abit aloof with her siblings which is understanble aa they seldom sees, but you can see also with her that the family that brought her up teach her the manners as well as she is very polite and respectful with everyone.

The simple celebration ends well, the celebrant happiness is extra special because of her daughter that drop by and once again she saw how united her sons and daughter again because last time they keep on fighting with every little thing.

I never knew in my life that I will be able to witness a scene that I mostly watched in television about an abandoned/adopted child and after they will look for the parents and so on, coz I thought it never happened in real life.

But after what happened with ny neighbor the scenes when they first met and the happenings today, I realize that what you seen or watch from the television is really happening in real life and it really depends on you on how to react or what you will do if you are in the situation like that.

Also I believe that if you knew that you are adopted child, something in you is missing even you belong with a good family and even the question why will not be erase or remove unless you talked with your real family/parents and voiced out that question and when you finally know the answer to your big question, you'll gonna have the peace of mind that you are longing for, the very long time.