Tuesday, May 29, 2012

this good old pair of shoes...

this good old pair of shoes is 15 years old, and i can't seem to find a replacement for her.  she's older than my eldest child, the oldest even among my personal belongings.


she carried me along so many walks, to some of the many uncharted treks i can now only cherish in my memories. she's with me in the most mountains in cordilleras, finding and assisting those communities that society seems to have forgotten... she has carried me as well through the boondocks of mindoro where only the mangyans are willing to dare climb... she has unselfishly taken me to the flourishing forests of bataan, conspiring to reprove pampered students who just wanted to take advantage of the reward of not going through the rigors of ROTC training... yet when almost my legs and limbs seem to surrender, she refuses to give up... she almost perished with ondoy, but somehow managed to survive the flood.  


for a long time, i was in search for worthy replacement, and i was in fact able to find a pair or two, but even with their so-called "state-of-the-art design", they failed miserably in comparison with her.  in the end, she's still the one that fits me best...  


now that mountains are calling me up again, i am sure that this good old pair of shoes of mine is still up for the challenge, until the next climb...