"The Goth Girl at the Portal"
By:
Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD
I was buying something in the UP Technohub Portal when a Goth girl with heavy make up eyed me. She whispered something to her bandmate , a tall guy with a guitar slung on his back. Since I did not know this person I simply paid no mind , entered the Family Mart and bought my Pocari Sweat.
On the way out though , the Goth girl stood up and smiled at me. "Good evening po Doc."
"Good evening din" , I said back.
She must have a been a patient or one of her friends or relatives must have been under my care. I was not sure at this point. I might have recognized her if she did not have all that make up but even then maybe it would not have spelled the difference. I walked away smiling for some reason.
It reminds me of what my dad always joked me about. "May gumagaling ba sa mga pasyente mo anak?"
There was a part of me that would wallow in my Impostor Syndrome for a bit in the past but maybe tonight I would have answered my Dad differently if he was alive.
"Well Dad , Some of them are alive enough to greet me and remember on a trip to a Family Mart. So yeah , some of them do get better." And we would probably laugh about it.
