deep soul-bearing

i don't love starbucks. not the watered-down coffee. not the (generally) pretentious vibe. not the super-expensive stuff. but i do love their couches, that are just perfect for long talks.
i had planned two meet-ups on sunday, one with LL and another with miel. but LL just had too many things to deal with, so we had to cancel. miel and i met up at the starbucks near her house at 11 am. i had planned to sprint over to megamall for the 1 pm screening of my former teacher's film, "sitak". but as the situation would have it, we talked hard-core til 5 pm. if my dad hadn't sent me a text reminding me we had to do some last-minute errands for my lolo, we wouldn't have adjourned yet. i love having those talks, the kind that usually just happen in high school and college--when we don't have appointments or deadlines to meet, or schedules to strictly follow. in high school, i would engage in talks like that in the library; in college, it was in an empty classroom, or along the wide corridors.
it wasn't just that miel and i hadn't seen each other in more than 3 months. it was because we had so much to unburden, so much to bare, so much to share--which made us even closer than we already are. we didn't just update each other on our lives, but discussed how people have touched our lives, how God has helped us all through it all, and what direction our lives are going. all over cups of coffee and slices of cake! can't wait to spend time in PG with miel soon!