#tuluganna

So my Mama was watching a live-streamed mini-concert on Kumu and most of the songs performed got me like "yaaah panahon ko yan"—you know, rakrakan and all. About six to seven songs din siguro yun.

Listening to these songs somehow made me think of my exes. For a moment lang naman 'no—not the type that had me sulking in a corner like I did when I parted ways with each one of them.

Posting this because I am just amazed at how songs can bring us back to memories not only of people but of places, of experiences, and of how we deeply knew ourselves back then when these songs trended.

These flashbacks, I think, are meant to remind us that moving on is a constant phase in our lives that we have to go through. That it is something that doesn't just take place in one snap, when you forcibly tell yourself it's already time to do it, or simply at the time you separated from a person, a place, an experience, a memory, or to the version of yourself that existed at that time. Moving on from any of these is one thing that you do every day for yourself and for them too, so that life goes on and continues as it should.