Only several years ago, I can remember children of my age celebrating their birthdays in their houses, playing games, having a grand time eating home cooked spaghetti, chicken or pork barbecue, puto, and hotdogs, and finally blowing on the birthday cake while singing happily together the birthday song for the celebrant. Without a doubt, this brought endless fun to everyone – no one felt a sense of hurry and no sense of guilt to continue having fun, unless one has something else scheduled for that day.
Nowadays, as I pass by parties after parties at McDonalds or Jollibee, I can’t help but feel a certain emptiness in the activity as the same routine is repeated hour after hour, day after day, year after year. Every party is timed and treated more or less in the same way all the time - emceed by Ronald McDonald, guests asked to do the same party games, and sent away at the appointed time with gift bags carrying familiar party items. How sad that today’s children tend to see the world in a mechanized, familiar fashion, looking forward to the same things everyday of their lives and shying away from any element of indefiniteness, inconstancy, unpredictability. An overwhelming sense of knowing what to expect on a day to day basis decides what one has to do everyday of their lives. And people think they are okay, they are happy with the way things are.

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Tuesday, December 27, 2005

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