While going through the hundreds of pictures I have taken over the years, I found this picture of myself while on a day long excursion to Aranjuez in Spain. I was very young then and newly arrived in Madrid.

I find it hard to believe that so much time has passed since. There was a period when I was still a teenager in the Philippines and I thought to myself, "In this world, God decided to make me a young person and my parents, middle aged. That was our life and our fate in this world." Silly me! Little did I know that life is not stagnant and at this point in my life, I too have reached middle age and my parents are now both in heaven.