REFLECTION:
A friend has been buying properties to have different resting places after each heavy day of work.
His family is in Europe and he does not like it there. He owns condominium units, a duplex,
and a five-bedroom subdivision house. Yet, he still checks in to hotels feeling so homeless and restless.
He was once invited to a birthday party held in the celebrant’s one-bedroom condo.
He arrived first to the place and felt the tightness of space in the unit.
Then the celebrant’s wife cheerfully came out of the bedroom.
His four children greeted him as if they knew him for long.
He suddenly felt the space getting bigger and bigger with the family’s shared joy and laughter.
When the party was over, he did not know where to go home to. The resting place he needs, after all,
is not a residential unit—but persons and loved ones.
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