Joy Isaguirre | Musings of a Blog Convert

When you think about your past, what events and places do you remember? What memories do you allow to play over in your mind?  I’m sure some of you can come up with a massive list of memories that you’d want to play over and over, like Friends’ re-runs on a local channel.

Given the same question, i would personally handpick one specific place that i’d like to live in my mind forever.

SM City North Edsa.

As i sit here, i realized how memorable this place has been to me.  It brings back a lot of happy moments, not to forget the painful ones. SM City North Edsa is where i usually go whenever i feel something, when i need to take a stroll and ruminate. 

It’s a place that helps me sort out my confusions when troubles come my way and problems never seem to end. It somewhat comforts me in a way that only this place know. I find contentment just by seating there, watching people move on to different directions.

I’m a city girl, i was born and raised in Quezon City.  Attended church, a private school, college, and got my first job for an American company right in the heart of the city. Every detail about my childhood and teenage years up to this point revolves around the city, and my solace, SM City North.

During elementary years, i had my first taste of the real world.  It was the period when we had to go through a great difficulty as a family.  It was also the time when my classmates in school started to treat me differently, an outcast.  Oblivious to them, we were going through a lot of pain and hardships as a family.  But as they say, every cloud has a silver lining, and it was during these years that my elder brother and i started to bond.

He would take me to SM North Edsa every Saturday so i can buy books and we’d go for hotdogs and just hang out afterwards. My passion for the written word and my positive outlook on life were weaned through the help of my elder sibling, under the roof of SM City North Edsa.

It sort of reminds me of the time when Mr. Henry Sy started SM City North Edsa back in 1985, it was a year or so after a great political and econonomic turmoil in our country.  Mr. Sy did not choose the path of least resistance, he didn’t opt for mediocrity as an answer to the future. Instead, he decided to burst free from the cultural gravitational pull that tells each of us to settle and set our sights low for life.  SM City North Edsa was built because people like Mr. Sy decided to pursue life with excellence and the desire to leave a legacy.

Interestingly enough, on Friday, May 29, 2009 SM City North Edsa will formally open its door to the new and innovative part of the mall, the Sky Garden.

I would like to personally invite you to visit my place of solace that will definitely leave a mark on history.