Chasing the Boracay Sunset

I really love sunsets. I do, I do!

It was such an opportunity to witness a beautiful sunset in one of the country's best beaches - Boracay!

We left Iloilo at around 8 in the morning and hopped on a bus bound for Caticlan. It was a 6-hour journey with a few stops in Capiz and Kalibo. It was tiring since I only had 5 hrs of sleep prior the trip. Finally, at around 2PM - TOUCHDOWN BORACAY ISLAND!

*insert party music here*

I wasn't surprised to see a lot of people in this island because it is one of the most famous summer destinations of the Philippines. It was our first time to be in Boracay and we were all excited. It was a vacation as well as a family affair - my cousin's beach wedding.

After we checked in at Casa Pilar, we hurriedly went to the beach. Ate and mama were all excited to feel the Boracay sand. Unlike other beaches that we've visited here in the Philippines, the sand in Boracay was powdery white.

(L-R) Ate, Me and Mom

While walking along the shoreline, a lady from Asturias Hotel approached us.

"Are you Filipino?", the lady asked with a heavy Filipino accent.

The three of us got caught off guard by her query. There was silence.

Again, she asked, "Uhm... are you Filipino?"

"Siyempre naman!", mom exclaimed.

The four of us bursted to laughter. The lady might have mistaken us as foreginers - me as a Middle-eastern dude (blame it on my beard) and my cousin as a sossy Koreana. LOL. Then, the lady offered us a free dinner to the newly opened Asturias Hotel which was highly endorsed by Boy Abunda. Too bad we can't avail their free dinner because we were going to have a family dinner later.

Pizza madness.

Ate and mom

Basking under the sun made us hungry. Good thing, Yellow Cab answered our gastronomic needs.

More photos of ate and mama:

Happy feet

Yep, so many people in Boracay... but I loved it!

And now, the moment that I've been waiting for a long time: the Boracay sunset!

I really loved sunsets, how the sky changes its colors from sparkling yellow to molten red as the sun sinks to the western horizon. Whenever I gaze at a sunset, I always have these strange feelings in me - a deep sense of wellbeing washing up with the last of the fading beams, yet on the other hand, a sense of missing potential as though life was meant for something more than what I've yet lived.

As I watch the sun slowly descend upon the world, I am always struck by a strange and timeless thinking that the world is still full of possibilities. I feel a connection to the grand, elusive scheme intertwining to all of humankind, and I am struck by something undefined. Even though I can't define that thing, it still compels me to do better with my life than what I have done so far.

I am confident that I am not the only one who feels this odd emotion while gazing at a sunset. It's definitely not a feeling of remorse or regret, but rather reminiscing those things that we've lost in life, and all the mistakes that led them to that place. 

This is, in fact, something different, something full of potential and something hopeful.

And the sun... will set for you.

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