What is an ideal date for you? Fine dining in a luxurious restaurant? Walking in a beautiful park? Watching a movie in a mall, or going to church to attend the mass? Well, all that I mentioned are ways of dating.
Husband and I been together for 24 long years. I can say that I’m so lucky to have him in my life. He is a very kind-hearted person, knows how to control his temper so much, a diligent one, loving, caring, a good husband to me and father to our 3 children. He is always busy with his work as a lineman, he stays in Laguna. He goes home twice a month here in our place in Rizal. We never had enough time to bond, but he always finds quality time for the two of us. When our offsprings are still kids, we save money little by little, if we reached the desired amount, we go out to the mall and we eat lunch and snacks in some fast food chains, this is our way of treating them, it’s our kind of family date. we oftentimes do that before. But now that they are grownups, they had their own circle of friends. They cannot go along with us at times. Husband said, “totoo nga talaga na darating ang araw na tayong dalawa nalang uli ang magkasama.”
He got home yesterday, because Saturday is his off in his work, we talked a lot, asking how’s and what’s of our everyday life, and suddenly he asked me to go out on a date, not a date that we used to do on the past months or years. A simple one. We just walk in the street, bought kwek kwek and palamig then we went uphill in the overlooking view of Laguna de Bay. We breathe the fresh, clean air, we look at the formation of clouds, we saw the boats in the lake, and witnessed the fabulous sunset. How beautiful it was!
photo is mine.
There, we just talked and talked, we took pictures, we listened to the sweet mellow music in our cellphone. We laughed and laughed as we remembered the old time memories. We looked back at the first time we’ve met each other, the courtship stage and how we fell in love. It was full of fun. We enjoyed that quality time together. We went uphill at 4:30 pm and we went down to go home at around 7:00 pm. It was a 2 hours and a half of happy and funny conversation. I felt so refreshed and relaxed. We called it a date, though we never leave our barangay, we spent less money, we don’t go somewhere else, we just walked, no transportation fare, but we had a very wonderful time together. I felt that we catched up all the lost time that passed.
Yeah, we never missed a day without calling in our cellphones, we chat we text, but maybe yes, it’s not enough. It’s a very big thing if you can hold each other’s hand, you hug each other, you talk personally, have coffee with him, those pretty little things mean so much to me.
Upon writing this article, he’s maybe in Laguna, he left again this morning for he has his work duties later this afternoon. Maybe when he goes home on the second Saturday of next month, we will again go there for a date.
I may say that each one of us has his own point of view about a thing and for me dating is not an extravagant one that you should spend much money and effort. It’s something that can be simple but remarkable and be added to good memories that you earned from the past. No matter how simple or pompous it was, the best part of it is that you love and you feel loved.
