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from web to the lavatory
May 12, 2007after a miscalculation on where to be last may 1, judith and i ended up watching the premiere of Spiderman 3.
it was a great experience–not the movie–to be with judith (just hanging out), after a long time.
if there's one thing i'll remember about this sudden-movie trip, it'll be our post-movie talk; particularly, when we were discussing our favorite portion of our homes.
when she asked that question, i was at loggerhead between that small, intimate space i had built for myself (over the years), which is located in the living room AND the bathroom (also, a small, intimate space).
i enjoy small places–those isang dipang langit, as one Filipino poet described his prison cell.
but when i weighed everything, interestingly, i picked the bathroom.
i realized, it's inside that underrated place, when you are stripped off of everything you own, you can look in the mirror and see clearly who's the person looking back at you.
what does the reflection say about you?
are you the kind of person you ought to be or the person consumed in the crass materialism of the age?
well, these are the kind of questions i came to realize that i've been asking myself every time i look in the mirror (while brushing my teeth).
probably, i'm just so used to asking those questions that i'm forgetting i actually am asking those to myself. (what a tricky sentence!)
no wonder i stay inside for an hour or more!
*sparkles!
