the other pair of my old converse is at least 457.37 km away

sa dami ng lugar na gustong gusto ko puntahan, nangunguna ang pagbalik sa Baguio at ang paglipad papunta sa Iloilo. pero ibang kwento pa yung pagbalik sa Baguio. My growing fascination for Iloilo started in early 2020. I met someone who's from there. Online ko lang nakilala and until now i have yet to meet them irl, but they have played a very big part in my life. Siya lang yung masasabi ko na naging successful na purely online connection that i've ever had. iba't ibang era ko ang lumipas and yet i felt like i always had them in my life for the most part. we'd lose contact and somehow just find our way back to each other every time. abutin man ng gaano katagal, for me nothing ever changes. this 2023 i had the idea to send them a shoe from my last pair of converse. those shoes took me everywhere. and those were the ones i really thought i would be wearing if i ever got to go sa Iloilo, but of course, they broke na. butas ang heels. it's definitely from walking incorrectly. when i got its replacement (my current pair), it was time to finally send the old shoe 450+ kilometers away. i thought it would be cool for my shoes to be separated so far away from each other and i thought it would be a cool souvenir along with other actual gifts to the person. so i wrote on the white parts of the shoe with markers and packed all my gifts. dinala ko agad sa lbc after school and of course the person working there gave me a curious look as to why someone would do such a thing. kinlaro pa namin nun yung description ng package containing ONLY ONE SHOE mwehehe. it got there sa La Paz within a day and i couldn't help but feel jealous sa sapatos ko na naunahan pa akong makapunta ng Iloilo. I badly want to go, but the actual odds of it happening are so low. i'm kind of scared that it's one of those dreams that aren't meant to happen until the reasons why that dream came to be have already passed, pero i won't live believing that! i'll go to Iloilo soon and take photographs and write about the place. i'll film how life is like there and magagamit ko na sa wakas yung very limited knowledge ko sa paggamit ng Ilonggo (i studied a bit and even made index cards with Tagalog translations). and who knows? i might even see my friend who i've already met in my dreams.

sowwy i can't share the photos i have of the shoe when i wrote on it mwehehe. but i'm pretty sure it's the left shoe.

ano ginawa ko sa piece na naiwan sakin? i hanged it sa may bubong dito sa bahay kasama ng antenna ko. it looks dirty but it's so cool to me.

here's what it looked like nung feb this year. now i think the lower half of the canvas has been stained brown(?)