Finding Joy in Gratefulness
As I scroll my newsfeed at FB this morning, I read about a teen-ager whom I personally know, emotionally complaining about how life is to her, seemingly so sad at how she is treated at home. It made me think that these things are real. Feelings are real! Words are real! Facial expressions of anger are real, emotions and reactions are real. A simple hit of bad word from a sibling or a parent can feel like doom in a day. Those things can make us really sad! May mga salitang para kang nabagsakan ng langit at lupa! As I pity her, I wanted to console, I wanted to tell her in private to just ignore, or to go have some good time with friends, watch movies endlessly at netlix, chat with FB pals, just run around in the woods, or pumunta sa tabing dagat at bilangin ang mga alon. A lot of those things that can make her forget what she feels. I am a little worried, their family lost a cousin, only 15 years old, as she ended her own life. Pero tama nga lang ba ang kalimutan? W