Thursday, March 29, 2012


     Ages ago, I became so hooked to the song “Moving On”.  I cannot now remember if that was really the title of the song and neither could I recall who sang it.  What I retained were the lyrics that went – “ There’s  a place in the sun where there’s hope for everyone.  Where my poor restless heart is gonna run.  There’s a place in the sun and before my life is done, I’m gonna find me that place in the sun.”
     Very simply, the words helped me realize early that life will all be about moving on.  Through days when I suffered failures and setbacks with the attendant embarrassment and shame, I knew that all I could do was pick myself up and move on.  Whatever little successes that earned me praise, I treated as temporary highs that I could not rest upon and moved on.  Life has always been about moving on – from place to place, project to project, client to client to client; sometimes, reinventing myself and always just one hop nearer to that reserved place for me under the sun.
     2010 saw me welcoming my senior years such that I kept thinking I should be blogging about my experiences, a few of which I have already been journal-izing.  Much as I had always been a foodie, a food blog will not work for me unless I wanted to make enemies of at least 85% of the restaurants in Metro Manila.  I cannot be a travel blogger because some places I may talk about may have already been demolished and replaced with something else.  Senior, remember?  Besides, my daughter, Beam, would definitely make a better job of it as she chronicles her travels through the vivid photos she personally takes.
     Several ideas ran through my consideration until exasperated, I thought – why not just write about the characters of pets and people or even those of foods, places and  events!  After all, I am not just about the food I eat and the places I got to visit. Life is a hodgepodge of characters thrown at me and mirrored in the way I act and react towards them.  It has always been about the characters that make day to day hilarious and wonderful and, at times, depressing or annoying.  What is important is that there has been such impact that started a whole trend of thoughts and even imagined scenarios!
     Basically, I should just record how I live life and how I got from A to M and now am near my XYZ.  Surely, it would often be like the way every other person lives – with trust in God and human fairness, a modicum amount of courage to face whatever comes and an eye for a laugh at every turn of the corner.  Life can be profound and shallow at turns; but, funny or sad, light or dark, it will always be about what my take on the situation will be.  Who knows?  Maybe in sharing my journey, there may be new insights gained.  Before everything else, I need to  find that song that got me started on this memory trip.  For my own satisfaction. 
A Place in the Sun by Stevie Wonder
Like a long lonely stream
I keep running towards a dream
Moving on, moving on
Like a branch on a tree
I keep reaching to be free
Moving on, moving on

There’s a place in the sun
Where there’s hope for everyone
Where my poor restless heart’s gotta run
There’s a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun

Like an old dusty road
I get weary from the load
Moving on, moving on
Like this tired troubled earth
I’ve been rolling since my birth
Moving on, moving on

There’s a place in the sun
Where there’s hope for everyone
Where my poor restless heart’s gotta run
There’s a place in the sun
And before my life is done
Got to find me a place in the sun

     So there!  The title is not even “Moving On” but “A Place in the Sun” and the only one I can find is the version of Stevie Wonder.  At my age, let me assure you, he was not the one I sang along with in my younger days. 

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