I’ve seen this movie long time ago. I won’t talk to you about this movie today, you have to see it for yourself. If we have the same taste for movies, then you’ll agree to me that this movie isn’t boring. But if you think this blog is all about the movie then you’re wrong. Just read the next paragraph and maybe just give me the benefit of the doubt and read it all until the last word. Thank you in advance. 
Last night, I had a great time with two great people. We were talking about life. About how we wanted everything to change in just a blink of an eye. As they were sharing their stories and as I promptly listened to them, I begin to realize how ordinary my life is. I used to think that I was the only one who is walking in this kind of uneasy road until that moment.

This is also another story I want to share. There was one time that my friend asked me, “What if he comes knocking to your door and ask for an apology?” There was a silence in my heart and I begin to think of how he managed to give a bruise and all those physical wounds to my mother. “Then he should ask his forgiveness to the ladies who owned my heart and life”, I quickly answered. At that time, I was referring to my mother and my two sisters.

Do you think I hate him so much for leaving us? Partly yes and partly no. wonder? Well, yes I hate him because he has turned our life this way and brought my mother and two sisters in vast pain that I don’t even know if the wounds would still be healed. And no, I don’t hate him because I became this kind of man.

Do you think I hate him so much for leaving us? Partly yes and partly no.

I haven’t seen my father played basketball when I was young but I can’t hardly find a reason why he’s being imported by other teams. ( I hope you get the point ). Like the father in the movie Road to Perdition, he’s letting his son get away from the hell he’s been living. And that is how I see my situation and by not hating him partly. I just want to hate him for creating scars in the life of my ladies and not hating him so much for what I became today. His life is in vast mess and gradually he left us completely. He maybe left a little question in me but totally thanked him.

I graduated in High School without even knowing what’s in store for me. He gave me the strength and surpass the cruelty of the world. He gave me the wisdom to understand the nature of this world. He gave me the maturity in the early of stage of my life. I was able to step in college without even spending a single centavo for my tuition fees. I was already contented with the money my mother gave me for the jeepney fare. I spend my college years as a working student in school in exchange for a free tuition. I get to know some friends and get to learn my skills which became my bread and butter. My course is way too far from the nature of what I am working now. I was able to understand how my life should be dealt.

And here I am now striving for the people I cared so much. Creating my life worth with the happiness I can give them. I can’t hate him so much for he’s giving me the real life we ought to live. The real pain we ought to feel. He gave me so much and let me learn the wisdom to understand life. He gave me so much that made me strong and overcome those fears. He choose his own path and I can’t blame him for it. We maybe suffered with the path he has chosen but we strongly stood up and strive hard. There are times I wonder on how he looks like and is he happy with his life now. Did he ever regret leaving us? Well, that’s one question that I think will never be answered. I am standing here now choosing the path different from him. I will be fair and honest with my family and never leave them. In any way, I owe them my real worth as a man.

Let me just end this blog by sharing to you the words of wisdom that once said by a stand up comedian on national television. And this will also be my message to my old man. “Kung nasaan ka man ngayon, D’YAN KA NALANG”

He’s not bringing us to the Road to Perdition. Thanks to him. Putang igit mo!