As an eleven-year-old child who lost her parents, I’d lie in bed at night for the umpteenth time, sobbing in the darkness as I imagined what life would be like without them. As Joan Didion wrote in one of her books that I’ve read before, “Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.” As for me, who experienced it twice, I didn’t know what to feel anymore. It was unknown to me, the feeling. What does it feel like? Not until I experienced loss in life. I lost my parents. Four years ago, I lost my first child.He didn’t survive. Akala nila malusog ang baby ko pero pagkatapos ng ilang minuto . . . bigla na lang daw hindi na humihinga si Drace. Nang ikuwento sa akin ni Mommy ’yon, iyak siya nang iyak at gano’n din ako. It was a heart defect that took my newborn child’s life. When we love someone, we experience an irreversible transformation. Similarly, when we lose someone, our whole world shifts and nothing is ever the same again.“Kath?”Nilingon ko si Kuya Kael, kasa
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