INCOMPLETE PUZZLE

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Ma. Nerieza B. Berdan                                                        Narrative: Most Memorable Christmas

Incomplete Puzzle

Christmas tree, Christmas lights, and Christmas gifts are some of those things that make us remember of season. It never ends. If we believe on it, we will feel the happiness, contentment and love. Those are the only reason why this time of year exists. It is the birth of our beloved Christ and He saved us because of the big and hot fire from His heart. So let this huge flame be in our soul always.

            There is just one thing I am hoping for every time Christmas is coming, and that is a complete family. I could not yet say that Christmas for me is merry. There is no glint in my stars and all of the angels from heaven are blubbering. All the trees are yellow and all that I see is gray. I can’t see the light, there is one piece of my puzzle is missing. Oh mother, where are you?   I could not sense her during Noche Buena. No gifts from her that touches my hand, no hug from her and no kiss from her lips and will say, “Merry Christmas my lovely daughter, I love you.”

            In the year 2012, I saw a lady that is so familiar to my heart. She is the most important lady of my life, my one and only mother. Christmas 2012 is the most memorable Christmas for an abandoned child like me. At last I celebrated the season with her. I don’t care about the present as long as my protector is at my side.

            I and my mother both went to market to buy some ingredients for food that will be put in our table for Noche Buena. We merrily went to mall to shop some decorations like Christmas lights; balls and also dresses for us. We also went to beauty salon and spa to have some relaxed time. The scissors cut our hair, the cream massaged our face and lastly the foot spa tickled our feet. That is really a memorable bonding for me with my mother. We hardly decorated our house and cooked the food that had magic by our hands. My mother, brother and sister prepared ourselves for the coming of the son of God and had a countdown when the time is already near and altogether shouted “Merry Christmas.” That is very memorable and unforgettable season of mine. But wait my puzzle is still not completed. My father is not in his chair. I need him. When is the day that I will celebrate Christmas with my mother and father and not each of them?

            Once a child completed the puzzle that he/she is solving, that child has nothing to do but to be happy. So as a child with an incomplete family, that kid will keep on finding the lost one either his/her mother or father. No happiness that can be equalize to the happiness that they will feel if their family will be complete.  A complete family is a complete personality.scvganzon@gmail.com