why so many pictures?

We gathered to celebrate our birthdays😭

It is very rare for me to sing and dance these days with friends around.  

But as I promised myself to enjoy my remaining years I decided to throw away all my shyness and just let go. 

I told my friend Eddie that you need to take as much as many pictures in your life because every moment easily becomes the past and you cannot go back to that moment anymore.    

Then you become older and older too and you never become again just like that.   

Your smile a while ago is already a past.   And so if I smile I put all my happy heart out like a child.   I want to remember that picture when I’m happy too and probably look back on it when I’m down.   

For that moment I cannot go back anymore.    

It is not just a picture.  It is a memory of the moments I can not go back even if I want to.   It just become my past and I want to remember my pasts as  a happy one.  

I like my friends to be happy too.  

I knew a Japanese friend who is so kind that people say he is like buddha .  The path where  he passes thru , flowers bloom and bears seeds that becomes trees.    

I don’t know where he is now.  I don’t even have a picture of him.  

I wish I did when  he was around.  

My memories of him are fading but I  still remember his kindness.  

I want my family and friends to remember that every second you live is so important and that there is not a moment you could go back to that .    And the footsteps  We leave becomes the  bridges of the children. And the seeds I sow will be their garden. 

Alyne Oohigashi 

filipina

大東アリン