The piece was originally written in December 2013 as a homage of sorts to the Seasons of DAKILA. This was Book One of our journey. The years after deserves another book waiting to be written.
I originally wrote this piece to salvage whatever is left in my memory, as I feared that it is slowly fading away. 6 months after, I now feel the need to edit and repost this. Because, the story need to be retold. Perhaps, because, there are new characters that need to understand the context where it all began. Probably, because, there is a need for all of us to remember. And maybe, in remembering, we will be able to go back to the basics and see where we should all be going. Or probably, I am just bored to death on a Christmas morning.
According to Lao Tzu, “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like”. For the past 5 years, I found my self as some sort of chronicler of the colorful lives of the men and women of Dakila. Most of them, I met when they where still boys and girls. I had the privilege of seeing them through their quarter life crises, through career changes and heartbreaks.
I never really consciously counted the seasons. It comes from an epiphany, that eureka moment that you just knew that the moment was the opening or the season ender. Sometimes, you just determine it by looking back at the events that transpired and seeing the whole picture from memories.
This whole season thing started as a joke among the girls of how the drama of this thing called life is much like our favorite television series. Only sometimes, people from real television series cross over our lives. But, unlike television, it is real. The series of these events actually shape our lives, chart our future.
If this was a real tv series then reaching 14 seasons will probably force the writers to assess and decide if it is time to end the show. In reality, I know there will come a time when the original characters will probably bid their goodbyes and move on. Even “Friends” had to take their final bow. But, a successful show will always have a spin off, a remake of sorts. And life will always throw us with new characters to make each day a lot more interesting or even crazier.
After 14 seasons, some of us have learned and some are still learning. We still rock to life’s beat and roll with its punches.
But, who can really say when it really begins or ends?
Like the season, our lives are marked by changes in the intensity of the light that reaches us, variations of which may cause us to migrate, hibernate, be dormant or evolve. It is always good to look back at our past to remember where we are going.
Here’s to 14 seasons and another 14 ahead of us. I only hope time does not fly fast enough.
SEASON ONE
June – December 2008
And this is where it all began – when friendships bloomed, of love found and love lost.
SEASON TWO
December 2008 – February 2009
A guitar gently weeps
SEASON THREE
March – June 2009
It comes around.
SEASON FOUR
August – December 2009
Tik Tok, Tik Tok, Time is running out.
SEASON FIVE
December 2009 – June 2010
The beds are always burning.
SEASON SIX
July – December 2010
true revolution begins in the imagination, surreal as a celebrity crossing over to our own show like a cameo in an episode, unbelievable drama of broken vows and a forever found, definitely changed how we all viewed our world.
SEASON SEVEN
February – July 2011
Across the universe gets you far, far away to the floods of Malabon then to an underground river,and you will probably get lost for a while only to find your self south of the border, west of the sun and finally home.
SEASON EIGHT
December 2011
Because a twinkle in the eye can really make a difference.
SEASON NINE
February – June 2012
Because we need to break our walls to love even more.
SEASON TEN
July – December 2012
Finding truth in projections.
SEASON ELEVEN
December 2012 – March 2013
Stripped, bare naked before the world ends.
SEASON TWELVE
March – May 2013
To struggle is to be free.
SEASON THIRTEEN
June – October 2013
To risk is to burn so we can kiss the sun.
Because it is in giving ourselves that we put something at stake and it is only after we risk that we have a chance in winning the battle towards the common good.
SEASON FOURTEEN
November – December 2013
To be wounded by our own understanding of love, and we bleed, willingly, joyfully.
Because we are #LahingDakila
SEASON FIFTEEN
Coming soon.