The questions we always ask in everything we’ve questioned or anything that we wanted to know, is the question “Why?” Why this, why that; why now, why tomorrow? Most of us resort to “we don’t know” or “maybe there’s a reason” — there’s always going to be a reason for anything and even anyone. It is the same questions that brings us peace, joy, imbalance and even despair, even without knowing the answer for these questions, it could already lead us to ad fidem, as far as imagining a loved one of ours on the other side of the world. We could be even led to somewhere far farther than the Love we ought to live and have. But we are not alone, nor in the journey or even the next, whatever place or state we may end up in. We are all on the same boat, the same journey towards something or someone. We are on a business, different kinds perhaps — depends on each one’s perspective. For some, recovery from this or that; for others, it may be already a journey towards what they’ve dreamt to acquire. But even if one can be so certain with his or her glory or success, a single word or a single thing in one’s life can change everything and affect each circumstance of the person’s “adventure.”
What makes our motherland unique, which is not limited to any particular ideology, political group or even religion, is the celebration of the December holiday: Christmas. We’ve spent peso after peso to even simply light up a parol outside the doors of our residences, by the roof perhaps of any sort of place that we live in. It is because of this that we may lose focus on the adventure, the journey and the preparation towards “creating that manger” not only in our homes but the one inside our hearts. This consideration, of course, leads back to the question “Why?” and even “How?” It is this helps me realize there is a journey I have to take seriously, now more than ever, since some may have already “given up” to celebrate Christmas this 2020. But no sickness or event can put an end to one of the greatest celebrations in humanity. But we’re not after Christmas, we are after the journey — the season in which people call “Advent.” We’re not just going to be reminded of this particular journey towards the Nativity, but every journey of our lives and finding our place. Perhaps that is what should every journey be: learning to find the right place, where exactly?
The place wherein we can rest and work, the place we can converse and fight our proper place in the discussion, and the place where we can set our hearts aflame. This is something perhaps deep and no one can even teach to another, but it will always be a good idea to go back to the virtues and values we have struggled our entire lives. It is the same means that can help us rediscover how each and every journey must be taken seriously but without being “too serious.” The situation we have been has reminded us more than ever how much we have to take care of ourselves and of others in the journey we have undertaken, that is, called Life. We have always had the guide of the sea’s Star and the source of the Star’s ever-living Flame to guide us and to give us the gifts and talents we need to propagate the goodness that can be found in our hearts and that of the others. May we always be open until the end of our lives to the Flame that will be guiding us through the darkest times of our journey.
