It's a common slogan back home especially on the public transports. My dad used to joke about this with my Mom before. When he packed his bags almost two decades ago, I knew this slogan is not just a slogan :D. It does seem to have a connection with the male's narcissistic way of boosting their ego. Why am I bringing this subject? Lol. Well, few days ago, we were home for vacation and one time we took a cab, we had a chat with the cab driver. I was with my mom at that time and baby cheska. I can't remember how the conversation dive into the subject but what I can't seem to forget is what he had told us. He said he love his family and he will never leave them for any other girl. But he admits that he's "babaero" and occasionally *and casually* saying that every month he would go to a bar to take out some girl and release the heat. Then casually saying this and I hope I remember it correctly.
Driver: I'm already 60 and let's admit the fact that no matter how many expensive perfumes my wife uses, she will still smell like dirt or in tagalog "amoy lupa". I want to feel a young girl's skin and smell the scent of a young one that's why every month I go out to get one. Anyway, I'm always protected so I don't have any worries of having any "accident".
My mom's smiling maybe for being polite but me, deep inside I was thinking if this is really what "marriage" will happen after 3 or 4 decades of being together. I blurted out after sometime that I don't want to grow old and they both laugh. I know and I hope that habidadi is a lot different than this man but the truth really hurts. You grow old together but they still want to live their life in the past as if it's normal. Scary. Really really scares me.
On another note, there's a short gag from youtube about couples saying goodbye on the phone in three different stages. first is married couple of about 10 to 15 years, 2nd is old couple and third is new bf-gf couple.
MARRIED COUPLE
wife: love you honey. i miss you. see you tomorrow!
husband: love you too honey and i miss you a lot. see you tomorrow. bye!
*click*
OLD COUPLE
husband: love you honey.
wife: ok bye.
*click*
NEW BF-GF COUPLE
girl: i love you so much. i miss you already. blah blah.
boy: i love you more honey. i miss you terribly. blah blah.
girl: o cge honey baba mo na. i love you.
boy: mauna ka na honey. i love you.
*after long hours*
girl: honey baba mo na may naririnig na kong tilaok ng manok. i love you.
boy: oo nga honey eh cge na mauna ka na. i love you too.
I was laughing at the show because I have been guilty of that too. When relationships are new it seem like there's no tomorrow. As if you wanted to be with the person forever. But as relationships grew older, everything changes. According to experts, it means love is stronger as the relationship grew older. There's more trust and comfort that the person you love will be there forever. Is it? Really?
I'm just thinking why do we have this "overflowing" romantic and cheesy side when we're falling? But everything diminishes each year we're with the same person? Love getting less is really out of the question because once you've planted love on one person it will always be there. Even if you separated ways, yes I guess in some other way the love is still there. Maybe on a different perspective. But the cheesiness is what makes love even stronger and a happy place. Why does it fade over the years? I'm sure there's a better explanation to this. I just hope relationship works the way I picture it and not the way reality takes it place nowadays.
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