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Here’s to a great year ahead!

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Last December 25, during our annual family reunion, during our traditional family update (a family member is to update the whole clan on past and future happenings in the family, such as the birth of a baby or future wedding), my uncle, the oldest of my mother’s siblings, gave me something to ponder on. Something he said caught my attention:

As you all know, I turned 73 last August. I’m still working [he’s a lawyer with his own law firm] in Makati, and I intend to work until I die. Why? I remember Tatay when he retired. He grew old fast…too fast because after almost 40 years of teaching, suddenly, he was doing nothing. When he died, I told Nanay, “You musn’t be like that, you must keep on being active and keep yourself busy.” And she did. She was active in church. She visited us here in Manila often. And she died at a ripe age of 89. That is what I’m going to do. I’m going to keep myself healthy, not only physically, but also mentally.

I know all of us are not reaching that “retirement” stage just yet. But looking beyond the obvious in my uncle’s speech, I realized that doing nothing is much, much harder than doing something. And I’d rather be doing many things than doing nothing and watching my life waste away.

So for the year to come, my hope is that we will all have fruitful, not to mention happy and healthy, lives. As a side wish, I also hope we all do something, no matter how small, to make the world a better place to live in.

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