Visiting a birthday celebrant

I wake up early today to visit a birthday celebrant. By 7am this morning, i get off my bed and took a bath then leave the house by 7:20am to pick up the flowers i reserved last Saturday at Julius Flower shop near Immaculate Concepcion Parish Church. Yes,  those flowers will be my thoughtful gifts  for the birthday celebrant.  I know you’re thinking that the birthday celebrant seem to be so special to me as  i wake up early today then reserved flowers for her…

She is one of my inspirations, I value and love her like a real mother. I remember when i first met her (Sept. 1, 2001 at my dy’s house in Bataan), she wore that precious smile and welcomed me and my friends at their house. She cooked a mouth watering lunch and merienda for us that day and by then we became relatively close to each other. We were textmates, forwarding inspirational quotes and messages for everday’s guidance. i can’t say by that time that she likes me to be her son’s girlfriend but nevertheless she treated me nicely since then. Years have passed by and she bacame really ill, she suffered in lympoma (cancer)  after her eldest daughter died in US due to blood hemorrhage.  Tita Rossel fought for her life extensions  for 2 years but in God’s will she left her family, her relatives and friends December 15 last year.

7:40am, I was already at the Mary the Queen Memorial Park. i go directly to Tita Rossel’s last resting place, light the candle i bought yesterday at Shoemart and laid the flowers. I whispered “Happy Birthday” and prayed. I was staring at her tombstone and wishing that she’s okey wherever she is by now. I regret the days that i was not able to spent the so-called ”quality time” with her and missed her so much. At 8:15am, i saw Tito Zaldy’s muti cab entering the memorial park, with him is Ranier the youngest in their family. I greeted them good morning and they asked me “kanina ka pa ba?”. I felt happy when Ranier appreciated the candles and flowers i bought.