Artist Club
Feel Young
(by Antonio H. Co  10/1/2007)

I really do have this morbid feeling that for every single day that pass, is a day less to my remaining days on earth. It is a mathematical certainty. And I consciously know that.

I found out that writing about the past, is one way of dispensing anti-aging therapy. I realized that whenever I view those scenes behind by closing my eyes, I could vividly see pictures of myself and colleagues still in our youthful dispositions, vibrant, mostly slim, black and long hair, stomach in, childish, not much money, yet, happy go lucky; sort of like that.

Even if I look at myself on the mirror today, or meet those old acquaintances in their new looks, no matter how grayish the hair, maybe balding, potbellied, good looking, dressed in style, or whatever they made of themselves, it would hardly alter my imagination. Still, the old images of ours will reverberate in that fleeting moment of tripping the memory lane. Really, our eyes under the dark has its own memory time line.

When the actual writing has been done, I post them for posterity on the internet, an infinite storage library on space. In this sense, I have this great feeling that I have defied a state of oblivion for a particular slice of my life.

At my age of 30 plus, yes, that is still mathematically correct, I have stopped counting beyond that, I frequently indulge recollecting the good old days, by rewriting those scenes that entails a lot of imagination. Thus, I feel young every time, by doing that.

You want to be young once in a while? Try to recover your finest moments behind, freeze them and take advantage of this timeless and boundless way of keeping it, the way I treasure them. And feel young along the way.



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