"ONE LOVE"

"One love, one heart, let's get together and feel alright" - Bob Marley

I often asked my mother how she decided to marry my father? and this is her only very short answer, "because I love him".This is my question since I was a child because my father was a differently-abled man (he lose his one foot and he can't walk without artificial leg and robertson shoes). So, I really wonder how mother was attractive to him? I sometimes, asked "why you don't choose a two legged man?" because my mother's first and last love is only father.

It's fourteen years now since my father passed away and sometimes, we teased our mother to find another man to be her husband. Then, mother normally replied "it's enough that I have your father and why should I look for another man?"

There are times, when I was a kid that I was wishing to have a father who can run with me, who is strong and not so sickly as my father. My childhood playmates normally teased me (Ah! iyang papa kay pungkol! (her father was dis-able!) which often makes me cry because I love my father. But, I realized yeah, he lose his foot but he is a good husband and a good father. He knows, what kind of answer his going to give his children, His a walking dictionary, He can cook and he works despite of his differences. He can sings well and I think his smart. I do not think there will be another father, I wanted to have if I will be given a chance to choose another one.

So, now that I am old I also realized what does it mean, when my mother said "because I love him". It's because my father also loved her. I never saw in my life that they fight with my mother. NEVER! I only hear strums of guitar and songs shared by my parents when they are in our balcony especially at night. I hear them sharing stories at dawn time about the bible that my father reads last night. Despite that fact that we were poor, I do not think, were disadvantaged because our parents love each other so much.

It's a very beautiful memory that I always treasured.

Now, I know my mother is a smart woman choosing my father to be her husband. Yeah, it is love!

P.S. Tomorrow will be my mother's 64th birthday. How, I wish I was there.