Airsoft Reunion

Been awhile since I played airsoft, a hobby I was really passionate about sine 2003. I took a break from it after our team stopped hosting at Km18 in Bicutan and I thought after a few months of being in hibernation, I thought I outgrew the hobby.  Last Sunday, the team decided to hit the jungles (slight exaggeration there) again at our former hosted site.  It was raining and the ground was really muddy and there have been major changes to the site. But despite the conditions, as well as getting whipped by younger, newer players (pwe) I could feel the old feelings rekindling and it felt like reuniting with an old lover. (I’m speaking figuratively of course, having no old lovers to speak of.)  It felt good reuniting with my Ghost team mates   (   www.ghostinaction.proboards80.com   shameless plugging ) with whom I’ve shared volumes and volumes of memories, battle scars, battles won and for the most part lost, traded jokes, exchanged vulgarities, uttered profanities, and shared  kegs full of San Miguel Beer with.

Will I continue playing? Probably not with the same frequency and gusto that I had, my knees are being iced as I write this but I did enjoy immensely last Sunday’s game and more over the camaraderie.

 

Another first for me last Sunday. I was asked by a team mate, Pol, to be his godfather at his wedding come October. I was honored and a bit startled at the invite which led me to have self doubt later that evening. I’ve always thought of a godfather as Marlon Brando - esque, wise, wealthy, able to impart the wisdom of Solomon, able to exert influence, able to get somebody whacked. I’ve been a godfather at baptisms but never at weddings. But I recall a conversation I had with my father years before when I was trying to get out of being a ninong for a baptism (yup, I was a cheap skate). He told me that it should be considered  an honor,that the traditional role of a godfather or godmother is to serve as proxy parents sort of, to provide additional guidance to the godson or daughter. And that the mere fact that your friends thought of you to be a godfather reveals that your friends recognize and value the guidance that you can provide to their child. And it won’t hurt come Christmas day too.  And that extends to being a godfather at weddings.