Destination Unknown

Arturo Santos Jr.
May 25, 2019
1 min read

It's my mom's birthday today. She would have turned sixty if she was still here.

The last birthday I celebrated with her was dinner and then a play with her boyfriend and a friend of mine. The seafood restaurant we went to was ok, but boy did she enjoy the play. Mom loved those sorts of things; theatre, opera, musicals, etc. That night was no exception.

This is the third year she's not here for her birthday. A hundred years could go by, and I still know this day was hers. I think about what we would have done had she been here to celebrate in person. I wonder what she'd say or do. She was such an uplifting and positive person, and always had a steadfast idea of what she wanted.

Her passing, changed everything in my life, from work, to routine, to my very desires and motivations. I don't know what it all means and haven't the faintest Idea what will result because of these "changes", but I've accepted that I'm unable to see through the same prism as I once did and that's quite enough. For today, I can at least look back and know something very important-I loved my mom and I'd wish her happy birthday if she was here, and I think she knows that where she is; and that's enough.