This time around, if there's no pandemic, the kids and I probably have our bags packed and ready ourselves for our 12-hour commute back to the province. With boxes of pasalubong to take with us for the frantically excited kids and the anticipating relatives.
But this isn't the case now. Crossing borders while under certain lockdown restrictions is rather troublesome and expensive. Why is this so? Before you can travel, you have to secure an approved travel pass or permit to travel, a negative PCR test, and the likes. Your travel must be also well coordinated with the place you are hailing from and your place of destination. The two must be fully notified prior to your departure and arrival. You must be ready to submit yourself to the health protocols being implemented by the receiving province which may include voluntary self-quarantine.
I could only recall, the last time we get to travel back to dear Grandma’s House was to be there during her internment. The kids had to take their urgent leave from school to be with their grandma in her last moments here on earth. How time flies and it's already a year passed. It has been a roller coaster ride for the family. It made me realize that we should give time to visit a loved one especially those living alone as often as we can. Mama is a widow. Moments like these, to her, are diamonds, priceless and irreplaceable. If we only had known that “mama” will not make it before her operation, we could have spent more vacation days with her. But everything happened so suddenly, it was the day after her birthday that she left.
If tomorrow never comes
Will she know how much I loved her
Did I try in every way to show her every day
That she's my only one
Make time for loved ones. Try not to make excuses. Lost time is irreversible and every reunion that did not take place would not have been regretted.
There will be NO REGRETS.
So tell that someone that you love
Just what you're thinking of
If tomorrow never comes-Ronan Keating, "If tomorrow never comes"
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