his pilgrim soul

without pre-empting the soon-to-be-posted podcast, what's inside my pretty head right now is pc and our two-decade age gap. haha.

yeah, he was born just as i was getting to love madonna with borderline. he was born right about the time the snap elections were being tallied, and maybe even during the walkout of the computer encoders. And as he was just being baptized, i was in my yellow shirt, raring to go to EDSA and lead my friends, carrying my yellow fan.

but he is hardly typical of guys his age. the first conversations i had with pc would not have even reflect his age. though his interests are so varied, it includes up to opera and classical music, literature classics and 80's music. it is always a joy listening to him as he expounds on his interests and his travels, a combination of being an only child and being born to well-off parents.

hence, his is truly an old soul, a pilgrim soul. he was raised to be a true gentleman, refined in his manners and his tastes. he would feel right at home in an ivory-merchant film, with all its niceties and wood paneling and manicured lawns and hunting lodges.

i write this in fully booked, bhs, as i buy him a vinyl of ella fitzgerald. yes, vinyl, long-playing record. of lola ella and her rich, deep, emotion-laden voice.

what he lacks in experience, he makes up for in vicarious learning, in soaking up knowledge from multiple sources, all that his pretty head could accommodate. and put that in the context of an intelligent, logical mind and you have someone who is as comfortable talking about k-pop as well as bertrand russell.

with him, i dont feel that age gap, seriously. and i am as much a 'student' with him. maybe even more.

i'd like to think we are really just peers born two decades apart. :-)


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