after more than a year's battle with colon cancer, former President Corazon Aquino passed away last Saturday, August 1, 2009.-----------------------
i really had a hard time organizing my thoughts for this blog entry... please bear with me...
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i have always been the type of person who is easily moved to tears. as much as possible i avoid conversations that will make me cry but ironically i still watch tearjerkers. (at least no one sees me cry. hehehe... ) i must admit that the past two days' events made me shed tears. it felt like that there is a part of me that was lost and cannot be found.
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a lot of people tell how good a person she was. how full she lived her life. how good a president she was. i must admit that i was moved with these untold stories about how she handled power. i am surprised to find myself teary eyed. no doubt, she touched a lot of people's lives. even mine. too bad, i just realized it now.
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to president Cory, i hope you get to read this in heaven:
thank you for the freedom i am enjoying right now. i was too young then to understand what you sacrificed for all of these. thank you for sharing your life with us. i hope i could live a life as full as yours and that i can uphold the values that you believed and lived by.
i know you are in a better place right now where there is no more suffering and pain but only bliss.
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the entire nation is mourning for your loss. you will always be remembered madam president. your legacy lives on.
