Bakit tila every week merong akong kakilala na namamaalam sa mundong ibabaw?
Former classmates, batchmates, townmates, kasama narin yung kilala ng kakilala.
Ang kaso, hindi ako nakaka punta sa mga burol nila. Huwag naman sanang magtampo at bisitahin ako. Peace tayo ha?
One mestiza lady from Angono was happy, healthy, never got sick. Her blood pressure suddenly shot up, she died in a few minutes. Aneurism palagay ko ito.
She was 48.
Oyen naman was telling me about this boy in his mid-twenties, who visited his fiance in Davao, hayun, duon nakagat ng lamok. Na dengue, namatay. That’s really so very very sad. He had an elder sister pala who also died from dengue. My God, that’s really tragic. Dalawa na sila. I don’t know what to say, sana mamatay na lahat ang mga lamok na yan. Mga mamamatay tao.
Three people from Binangonan died two weeks ago, hindi sila sabay sabay and they didn’t know each other. I wasn’t able to go to the wake, hindi ko rin alam bakit sila nag-goodbye. Sudden deaths din. Yung isa yata heart attack. Ang babata pa. Fifty years old ngayon bata pa kasi fifty na ako, rounded to the nearest tens.
Bernadette, the step daughter of my batchmate and townmate, Butch Ojeda, also died recently. She worked for SM, and attended an office party one night. The next morning, she had a tummy ache. For two weeks she complained of kabag. All her tests found nothing suspicious. Normal daw lahat. Sunday, she called Butch to tell him that she went to see another doctor at St. Luke’s Medical Center for a second opinion. She had a stomach CT Scan or MRI. After she put down the phone, she took an afternoon nap. She never woke up.
Her stomach CT scan’s result arrived a few days after she was cremated. Wala rin daw nakita. Ano kaya yung nagyari sa kanya? She was 44 with a six year old son.
He slipped in the bathroom but didn’t have any fracture. Since then, his feeling of tiredness persisted. He had intermittent fever which doctors never discovered the cause and cure.
He quit his regular golf and just stayed home. He couldn’t go out because he got so tired easily. For 5 years, his routine became like that.
One morning, his live-in nurse found him not breathing. Gone. Tigok. Pero okay na rin kasi he was 85 na. Pero syempre we can’t say that to his wife and loved ones, and to the person. Sige nga, kung meron kang makita na otsenta na, lapitan mo at sabihin mo “Ah hello, why are you still here? Di ba dapat na cremate ka na? Aren’t you supposed to be living peacefully in heaven by now?” Baka mamatay sa galit sa yo. Kaya please don’t do that.
That actually happened to me. I am not the 85 years old. Ako yung nagulat. While I was at Rustan’s waiting for my daughter I saw this former government official. Aba, naglalakad kasama wife nya. Ang sama ko, pero nagulat talaga ako nung nakita ko sya. Kala ko kasi patay na sya. At hindi yun 85 tila 185 na yun. Kakilala ko yun eh. Lalapitan ko sana at tatanungin “Buhay ka pa pala?
Pag umabot ako ng 85, huwag nyo akong lapitan at tanungin bakit alive pa ako. I know baka mukha na akong inembalsamo pag 85 na ako, pero just keep your opinions to yourself. Don’t say it to my face. Truth hurts. Baka ma hurt ang feelings ko. Just say peace.
