Forever More

And they lived happily ever after.
Happiness and love is equated with forever.
Somehow the thought of forever is a long wished for dream.
And yet, looking back at my life.
I realize that many events in my life go through phases
& forever is a condition I am most unaccustomed to.

For instance…
I was a happy-go-lucky child,
Growing up in Cebu. But,
I was all of 8 when we moved to Davao, in 1983.
Seven years later, in 1990,I entered a new phase in my life,
College, & "moved" to Manila to pursue a degree in Psyhology.
In 1993, my family sold our house in Davao
& we moved back to Cebu.
I graduated college in 1994.
Moved back to Cebu for a year to teach (my first job)
Moved back to Manila to be with my friends in 1995
And what I had come to see as home.
Taught from 1995-1997,
Moved to an HR job in 1997 till 1998.
Moved back to Cebu in 1998
To take care of the house & be with the family business
As my parents moved to the States.
Got married in 1999.
Moved back to Manila to live with my in-laws in 2000.
Polluted Manila, far from being the exciting world
Of my college days, didn’t agree with me,
So moved back to Cebu in 2001.

Got into my old job, stayed there till 2003
When I moved into my current job.
At four & ½ years, this is my longest
Working stay in a company.
And
For whatever its worth, being married
For seven years is the longest commitment
I’ve had to a person.
So maybe that’s why I ache,
And feel ready for a change.

They say
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
But still,
I am the person I am
for all the changes I've gone through in my life.
Maybe its time for me to stay put
and dig deep into the ground, & grow roots.

Still, change beckons to me like a siren's call over the horizon...