Tita Cory

I never liked you and I dont know why but Im sad that you’re gone. Even in the end you showed that you’re the only one who can unite this country that has gone weary and polarized. I saw the news and my friends posts and they seem genuinely in agony of your passing, Maybe its your daughter Kris or maybe Im not good a judge of character than I thought. Whatever it is, my point will not matter. It will be drowned by the unending cheers and praises by the masses, by the elite, politicians and yes even vatican has sent farewell eulogies of some sort. This blog would not be a drop in the ocean of greatness that will be bestowed unto you and the things that you’ve done and the meekness that you showed throughtout your presidency and your life. 

It might be Kris that I didnt liked but I watched Feng Shui and is probably the best Horror movie that I’ve watched, maybe Noynoy who is a cheap copycat of Ninoy and having been linked to a bold starlet (which incidentally Kris reported on the Buzz years ago) or it could be that Luisita whom you are part owner to which hasn’t given the farmers their own lands and was the place of bloody massacre when they picketed the   Hacienda or being a Cojuangco with all its money and influence. It seems stereo type but there’s always wrong with an obscenely rich clan such as yours.

But you never looked rich or what I mean is you never flaunted your richness. Same wristwatch and a wedding ring and a house in Quezon City when everybody knows you have a house in Forbes Park. What’s with that? I really dont understand and there in nobody that would make me understand as you are now gone. Im the one that’s probably lost.

When I see you during interviews I am at awe at how at peace you are. Is there really a person so dependent on God? That no matter how everything seem to be out of place or in anachry your answer always lies that God will do something about it…..And your prayers always deliver. You’ve demonstrated it during Edsa I and Edsa 2. Remarkable! and after all the efforts it wasn’t always your doings according to you. If it was any politician it would have been everywhere in big bold and red fonts screaming their names for the sake of reelection! But not you. You would fade away after those accomplishments and go on you peaceful way. So selfless.

So what if I dont like you? You’re great! You are Cory Aquino, probably as heroic as Ninoy plain and simple. You will be remebered forever. You will be immortalized as a heroin who toppled 2 dictators and who would have toppled this administration if it wasnt for your sickness. You have lived a life of simplicity  and its hard coming from a family of great wealth and influence. I dont like you but Im sure glad you came and that you’ve given much Filipinos hope in the times of darkness and despair.

I dont like you because probably I liked my heroes with muscles that are loud and carried bad-ass guns and kills the enemies without mercy. I liked my heroes to be in the spotlight as they are interviewed proud and unapologetic, probably a little “Captain America” meets “Wolverine”.

I dont like you and you will never be my hero but I owe you my freedom, my race that without you I wouldn’t be proud of. Thank you and God Speed