Memories

By: Rhesa D. Digamon

(ENTERTAINMENT SPEECH)

You will just only know the value of the moments until it becomes your
memories.

Memories are the happenings in the past that each of us want to go back in. And our
childhood time is one of the happenings in the past that each of us misses. I was born in Pasay
City, Manila and since I was five I always have a desire to find new friends to be able add them
in the list of my friends because when I was a kid, that is all I want, a set of friend that will be
with me when playing hide and seek. I enjoy going to school because I am already used that after
learning it is then a playing time, I remember myself when I was six years old, running along the
highway to buy my favorite breakfast in the morning, the “champorado”. But as usual,
unexpected happening always come and for me, that is when my parents decided to go here in
Guimaras. That time, I didn’t felt sad because as a six years old child it never pop-up in my mind
that there are possibilities that we can’t go back to Manila. I just only felt sad and disappointment
where I already turned 7 years old when I am playing with my new friends here in Guimaras,
there are times that reminisce the moments when I am with my friend’s in Manila, and there are
things that change when we move here. The people or friends that I am used to lay with becomes
the people that I share my experiences in childhood with in the past. And also my usual breakfast
in the morning chances change from “champorado” to the cooked rice with egg. But that time, I
always hope that we could go back in Pasig City, Manila, but I also set in my mind that as long
as that thing never happened I must value the present, the time that I am with my new friend here
in Guimaras.

I could not be with the people in the past again, or we could not be able to recognized
each other again but our memories will always be remembered and will always be in my heart
and mind.