Team DailyPedia
MANILA, Philippines. Writer Cathy Sanchez Babao’s Facebook post about a guy she saw dining at a fast food restaurant has touched the hearts of netizens.
With over 25,000 shares and almost 90,000 likes on the social network, Babao’s impressive storytelling of the unnamed man’s efforts to keep his long-distance relationship (LDR) alive using FaceTime, has definitely stood out against a sea of negative news we often read on our newsfeed nowadays.
Babao apparently noticed the man talking with his significant other while standing in line waiting for her order. The writer then took the opportunity to observe him more by taking the table next to him. The things that happened next actually inspired her to write the heartwarming story.
“I watched him quietly as he sat across her while eating his dinner. I couldn’t help but overhear. He was fully engaged, laughing at her jokes, and listening intently to her stories. She looked at him as she ate her pancakes and giggled at his jokes. It was a heartwarming sight to behold in the middle of a crowded fast food outlet. Oblivious and insulated from the sounds around him, only her stories and the sound of her voice mattered.
“’Ang cute ninyo,’ I couldn’t help but tell him as I was about to leave. He grinned from ear to ear. A young man so in love. They shared a meal twice a day, he told me, it was now breakfast in her corner of the world. They had been apart for two years now, and always looked forward to beginning and ending their day with one another. Next year, he would finally be able to follow to where she was.
“Meanwhile, across their table, sat another couple, fully engaged with their phones as they finished their meal. Together, but apart.
“The blessing and curse of technology can either make you, or break you. Choose wisely.”
