LSD-2-Kumusta-KaNa

‘Kumusta ka na?’

by Marvin Lepardo

Member, LightShare e-Mail List Group

(This was posted in the e-group, as a story “shared by a friend.)

CAME home one afternoon to my wife and kids, so tired from the day's work. As I entered the house I saw my two kids play­ing tag. They were running around the house chas­ing each other.

My elder daughter (aged 5) ran up to me, greeted me "Hi, Papa! Ku­musta ka na? (How are you?), gave me a quick kiss, and proceed­­ed run­ning, screaming, so she would not get caught by her sister (3½) who was chasing her.

Then my younger daughter did the same: running up to me, greet­ing me "Hi, Papa, Kumusta ka na? and giving me a quick kiss...

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But she did something else that really made my day. While she al­so wanted to hurry up to chase her ate (elder sister), she stopped and very lovingly looked up to me as she smiled, as if waiting for some­thing. Then it struck me that she was actually waiting for my res­ponse to her greeting...

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So I bent down to her, kissed her and gently told her that “I am okay, just a little tired from work,” but nothing like a warm hug from her would not erase. She did just that and con­ti­nued run­ning after her ate. An experience like this is a loving reminder to once in a while, amidst the busy-ness of our everyday affairs, stop and sincerely greet one another "ku­musta ka na?" and then really stop, put down what­ever it is that we are doing, and patient­ly wait for the answer...

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How often do we bump in­to each other, very "mechani­cally" greet one another "Ku­mus­ta na?" but not even stop­ping on our way to wait for the reply, we ask "Kumusta na?" and then go on our own way…so many times we don't even look at each other when it happens...

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I put down my things and went into the kitchen to greet my wife, “Kumus­ta ka na?"

Ahh... such wisdom coming from the innocent.

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