When it happens to you
Grief is something I didn’t want to experience at the age of 15. When I heard the devastating news, I was overwhelmed with grief. It was more than sadness; it was an indescribable feeling of emptiness.
View ArticleRoad to recovery
My father died on a New Year’s Day. It was almost 12 years ago, and it’s a wonder I can still remember everything quite clearly.
View ArticleGrief and gratitude
Typhoon “Nona” (international name “Melor”) has come and gone, striking so close to Christmas and adding to the general misery brought by drought, severe traffic—and the stars of the election season....
View ArticleA Grief Online
“I FOUND, when I was a child, that if I could put the hurt into words, it would go,” Jean Rhys wrote. And so in the days following my mother’s death I can do nothing but write, mostly about the things...
View ArticleA retrospective on grief
A classmate from med school messaged me recently that her father had been diagnosed with gastrointestinal tract cancer. The post A retrospective on grief appeared first on Inquirer Opinion.
View ArticleGrief, my friend
Grief is such a funny, twisted kind of feeling. You’ll never know when it hits you. It has been my constant companion since Papa died of lung cancer in May last year. I’m completely okay one day, the...
View ArticleMe, alone?
I lost my dear son, Cocoy, to a tragic death a week before he turned 31. He left behind a wife and two very young sons. I was devastated. I could no longer live in our family home for 27 years; the...
View ArticleNo silver bullet
It’s 2019 and I am still writing about grief. “There is no deadline for grieving,” so I was told. Maybe there’s that one jarring event that elicited a whole new perspective in your life. A single event...
View ArticleTides
I wasn’t ready for the rude awakening that awaited me in March of this year. As a 16-year-old girl, the idea of death was one I was familiar with — attending funerals and wakes was sporadic, but not...
View ArticleConnecting in grief
For the first time since my mother’s death in 2016, I was unable to visit her at the cemetery in the days surrounding All Souls’ Day. This wasn’t just because of the closure of cemeteries and memorial...
View ArticleAlmond-shaped grief fatigue
Earlier this year, I found myself scoffing at the protagonist in Sohn Won-pyung’s “Almond.” In the Korean author’s 2020 novel, “unordinary” Yun-jae finds himself mixed with ordinary families, ordinary...
View ArticleI think of my father
I heard the priest say, “Suffering purifies the soul.” He said every successful trial provides one's soul with meaningful progression. The post I think of my father appeared first on Inquirer Opinion.
View ArticleMy dad made me believe in heaven
How do you properly honor a man who climbed his way up and gave so much, to live a life worth remembering? The post My dad made me believe in heaven appeared first on Inquirer Opinion.
View ArticleOur changed grief (and new kindnesses)
We are never getting out of this mess,” a friend remarked ages ago, referring to how the threat of COVID-19 would keep resurging. As an optimist, I would not accept it at first, but as the months...
View ArticleGrief
On a daily basis, I find myself sifting through a handful of varying emotions and thoughts. As these emotions and thoughts collide with each other, I find myself wondering if any of them are truly...
View ArticleGod is with the grieving
"I was admonished for grieving when I’m supposedly a Bible-believing Christian, as if being a Christian doesn’t give you the right to cry." The post God is with the grieving appeared first on Inquirer...
View ArticleLife loves on
I thought of the word “decimated,” admittedly too dramatic, when I read that the deaths registered in 2021 were the highest since 1957/1958. (Which, many people are not aware, was during a flu...
View ArticlePrepare yourself
"People think these words might be the most comforting thing to say, but it's the most difficult to hear and the most impossible to process." The post Prepare yourself appeared first on Inquirer Opinion.
View ArticleHow I almost killed Papa
“How will I deal with grief?” I ask myself every time I remember how I almost killed my father when I was still a child. I was naive back then. Will I cry? Will I hide my sufferings behind a smile?...
View ArticleStages of post-elections grief
I was riding the bus to Tagaytay when grief started settling in. I thought of a woman who understood the reality of commuting, of long, vexing bus rides. I would like to believe how essential grieving...
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