I possess three Ms (ems).
A long time ago when my parents were still alive, there were $1 white towels sold in JC Penny department stores. These white towels were most popular to Filipinos shopping for pasalubong to their families in the Philippines. My father would tell my mom, kung para kay Annie, yung $2.99 ang kunin mo. Yang anak mo na yan mahilig sa maganda at mahal.
I am not consciously choosing nice and expensive things pero laging na tyetyempo. For example, the Macy’s store near here is closing this March. When I went to buy my perfume, it was not included in the so-called storewide sale of 70% off. Kung ano ang gusto ko, hindi sale.
When I went to Zara in Walnut Creek in January, the store was having a big sale. The blouse that I picked was not included in the sale.
Today, I fell in love with something so stunning with a matching shocking price tag. I saw it online the other night when I couldn’t sleep. I’ve been searching for this thing for one and a half-years now and I just couldn’t find something that ticks all my criteria. Then I saw something online. This is it! I think I found what I was looking for, except, a huge EXCEPT, I couldn’t afford it. I told my husband, why am I like this? Siguro I was a wealthy baroness in my previous life.
I am in love with that thing I saw today. I am hoping when I woke up tomorrow it would no longer be in my consciousness. Matauhan na ako. Wake up little me, wake up. Or, maybe by tomorrow morning, I would have thought of something else I could do to achieve that dream. Who knows? Sometimes it’s up to us to make our dreams come true.
I like to dream. What does that song by Richard Sanderson say?
Dreams are my reality
The only kind of real fantasy
Illusions are a common thing
I try to live in dreams
It seems as if it’s meant to be
Dreams are my reality
