Rapu – Rapu Island, consist of 3 municipalities with 34
barangays. Poblacion, one of its barangay and the Centro of the island, is my
birthplace. Both my parents were raised there and 90% of my clan lives there
until today. Before I reach 1 year, we vacated the place and started a new
living in the city. Though I wasn’t raised there, I love the place more than
any other place I have been. When I was a little kid, we always spend our two
months vacation there but as I grew older it only becomes one month or even
only just a few weeks. I consider my current place as no much to Rapu – Rapu, they
are completely opposite from each other.
Whenever we’re about to
visit the place I get so excited. It
is some kind of unique happiness that I feel towards just to that place. There is
no exact word that can describe how I really feel when I’m there and most especially
when I have to leave the place again. It is like always the most depressing
time of my life. Being apart from that place makes it more unexciting and
boring. Since all of my cousins are there I don’t have someone near me that I can
talk to, laugh and bond with.
My best childhood experiences are right there. I feel like an eagle soaring high while playing with the other kids. Its just a little depressing that my beautiful memories there where stained. Well, that's just life and it may become too perfect and unrealistic for me if there were no sad moments. You can't experience rainbow with going through a little rain.