friend (¤W¤È 11:24:07): parang sabi e wag nila aksayahin yung natitirang sandali ng buhay nya.
friend (¤W¤È 11:24:20): ayun pati kami naiiyak na rin
friend (¤W¤È 11:24:44): ask pa nga daw ni ms gina sa kanya kung anong gusto nya gift sa xmas
friend (¤W¤È 11:25:05): sabi ni boss jicky e basta wag lang daw syang magsasawang alagaan sya
Remembering back:
Boss Jicky was in his 40s whose younger life was mostly spent as a single. More than 4 years, he met Gina, a DBP IT personnel. By that time, I was not still working in the company where he was still attending for almost a decade now (if he still here). We don't know if he's feeling something special towards Gina at those time. Being secretive as he is (mostly silent - Libran characteristic), we have no any idea whats on his mind.
I started working in that same company in August of 1999. Its the year I met this man - so kind, silent, intelligent, courageous but when he cracks jokes, everyone can't help but laugh by his funny but witty jokes. You see, he is not really a "boss" because he has no managerial position in that company. But since I was still very young then ( 20), we fondly call him boss jicky or boss jick - out of respect to such respectable man.
He is not perfect. Nobody is. Even before we met him, he's addicted to cigarette and well, like to take hard drinks to complement the joy this two combination brings - a bad combination which eventually took his life.
As our project in DBP keeps moving , our friend Arnel, keep on teasing Boss Jicky and Gina. This was around early 2000 or late 1999. Since Gina is not in a younger age anymore, our friend, well most of us, think they are perfect for each other. The conflict here was that, Gina was engaged to be married to a different man. Boss Jicky maybe saw this situation that is why he did not pursue and give in to the teasings. But God made a difference - Gina ended her relationship ( for more than a couple of years) to the other man and eventually fall under the spell of L-O-V-E boss Jick offered when he saw that the road to his happiness is now an open highway. I was in HongKong for another project when this happened. They did not wait so much and decided to get married after a couple of months of being a boyfriend-girlfriend.
They were blessed with a very cute boy after that - the 5th of their family.
A test from God came along not until recently. We, his friends and himself are living our own significant lives not until I went home to the Philippines last November. I learned the news from a friend that boss Jick is sick - he has TB. That was what we all know. All along, his family knew it was cancer and that he has only 12 weeks to live. At first, they did not inform him what was going on. A secret which Gina could not hold on to it anymore and break out this terrifying news. How hard was it to tell to the one you love the most that he/she is about to leave you for good?
So, the conversation above took place.
They had such a short life together - barely 3 years. That is why maybe boss jicky tell Gina not to cry anymore and just try to live as happy as they can be until God finally take his life. It is also so inspiring to know that these two people love each other so deeply. A love which will live forever. A sacrificing love. An unselfish love.
Surely, boss jicky is now happier wherever he is. Well maybe, maybe it is for the best - for him up there so that he can see his wife specially his own son grow. And that through it, he will be able to guide him as he face this troubled world - until they meet again.
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