"Ligdong" is a word in HILIGAYNON
lígdong - Modesty, bashfulness,
unobtrusiveness; to be or become modest,
perform in a modest way, etc. Naglígdong
siá sa koléhyo. She became modest or
bashful at college. Ginaligdongán akó sa
íya. She appears to me to be of a retired
disposition, to be modest or unobtrusive.
Ginalígdong níya ang íya hámbal,
batásan, pagginawî, etc. He is modest in
his speech, manners, bearing, etc. (cf.
úgdang).
I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.
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