With the death of one of my student last Sunday, it made me ponder on life itself. That event is a reminder that everything has an end. No matter how much we try prevent it, death comes and it will come. What is worst is that it comes on times when we least expect it.
I remember Charlz was just seated on the 2nd row in the middle column of the seating arrangement smiling last Friday, July 25. A well behaved boy with a warm personality.Sunday came and we reported to school for the homeroom PTA meeting and the news of his suicide welcomed us. What a lost! At first many doesn't want to believe it and so we went to their house to verify. And we saw him there ready to be embalmed.
As to why did he do it? That we don't know for not even a note was left in his room.Family and friends are puzzled for they were just with him Saturday night. The nearest possible reason they can point out is family problem, the illness of his father and the series of consecutive deaths in their family ( imagine the death of his two uncles and one grandfather in just one year? And prior to that, there are two more cousin's father who passed away last 2009.)
Life, how precious and fragile it is. What we make out of this life will affect where and what we will become when we meet death. Personally, I realized that I might be working hard earning for a comfortable future but am I also prepared for the inevitable? Or I might have prepared well myself, done good and served God but in just a split of a second decision to take away my life can erase all of the good deeds diverting my path from heaven into what they call Limbo if not in hell. This is what I fear. It is not the ghost of the dead nor the hardships of life but the capacity of the individual to take away his own life using his own hand. I hope and pray that the series of suicide happening in our locality will end.
To those who have gone ahead in the afterlife, may they all rest in peace in Christ Jesus. And may the evil that claims prematurely life come to an end. Amen.
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Recycling an old post
I just want to share a post I've written a few years ago from my friendster blog he he...
There’s this cute little girl in the gym whose name is Daphne. Around 9 years old, tan, chubby, talkative, playfull, beautiful especially with her smile. The niece of Ms. Sanil. She is an elementary here in San Jose School.
I didn’t take that much notice of her. But just this Tuesday, after the culmination of the nutrition month, I don’t have the enthusiasm to enter my last class. Everybody is so tired after the activity in the morning and everybody wishes the day to end right away. Then I met Daphne as I was going out of the faculty room. She was surprised that she didn’t knew I am a teacher in the High School Department. I read in her face that it is a pleasure to see me there. It made me smile wide and she smiled wider. But I have to go on because I will be late in class.
Few days later, as the jeep I was riding on stopped for some more pasaheros, it was Daphne getting inside and she gave me that sweet angelic smile again. The vacant seat they got is five people away from me but I can hear her conversing with her adult companion. She was telling her about me. The more I smiled when she said I am her CLASSMATE! He he he…well, the adult was amused and so was I, but hey, it’s true isn’t it? We are studying karate in the same classroom (ground floor of Epiphany Church), with the same schedule (MWF) and under the same teacher, Sensei Jun, therefore we are classmates.
Then last Friday August 3, 2007, we are about to start and she isn’t yet around. Her friend, Kim who is a quiet and honest girl, told us that she might not be coming because she has an appointment with her doctor. When asked why,she said that Daphne told her it’s about dieting! hmmm… the little girl is already figure concious, huh? But she just amused us gain this time.
When we were about to start, she joined us with her maong on. Poor Daphne, Sensei reprimanded her because of that. Have he only known that she just came from a visit and because of her eagerness to join us, she didn’t drop by her house to get a change of clothes, maybe he too would be amused as well.
After the session, she is again so noisy running, laughing and playing with the other kids until her sundo tagged her to go home.
There’s this cute little girl in the gym whose name is Daphne. Around 9 years old, tan, chubby, talkative, playfull, beautiful especially with her smile. The niece of Ms. Sanil. She is an elementary here in San Jose School.
I didn’t take that much notice of her. But just this Tuesday, after the culmination of the nutrition month, I don’t have the enthusiasm to enter my last class. Everybody is so tired after the activity in the morning and everybody wishes the day to end right away. Then I met Daphne as I was going out of the faculty room. She was surprised that she didn’t knew I am a teacher in the High School Department. I read in her face that it is a pleasure to see me there. It made me smile wide and she smiled wider. But I have to go on because I will be late in class.
Few days later, as the jeep I was riding on stopped for some more pasaheros, it was Daphne getting inside and she gave me that sweet angelic smile again. The vacant seat they got is five people away from me but I can hear her conversing with her adult companion. She was telling her about me. The more I smiled when she said I am her CLASSMATE! He he he…well, the adult was amused and so was I, but hey, it’s true isn’t it? We are studying karate in the same classroom (ground floor of Epiphany Church), with the same schedule (MWF) and under the same teacher, Sensei Jun, therefore we are classmates.
Then last Friday August 3, 2007, we are about to start and she isn’t yet around. Her friend, Kim who is a quiet and honest girl, told us that she might not be coming because she has an appointment with her doctor. When asked why,she said that Daphne told her it’s about dieting! hmmm… the little girl is already figure concious, huh? But she just amused us gain this time.
When we were about to start, she joined us with her maong on. Poor Daphne, Sensei reprimanded her because of that. Have he only known that she just came from a visit and because of her eagerness to join us, she didn’t drop by her house to get a change of clothes, maybe he too would be amused as well.
After the session, she is again so noisy running, laughing and playing with the other kids until her sundo tagged her to go home.
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