just thinking

i was born in 1983.
i don't remember living in a country where martial law reigned.
i don't remember ninoy being shot.
in 1986, we lived in cebu.
my family wasn't there at EDSA that first time.
only my second brother was there in EDSA the second time kase i was in davao then.

i haven't been part of a lot of things
and i may have been too young when those things were happening
but i'm not altogether clueless about their implications
and i do know that tita cory is a lot more than this sweet old lady who's always flashing the loser sign (not from me. i just got this description somewhere oh yeah, from joel wagan. and he got it from someone who texted him. i do know it's a laban sign and what it stood for)...

tatay and nanay texted earlier that they've been watching the coverage of tita cory's wake and burial. and that they could not stop their tears as they remember people power and ninoy's wake and funeral.

i admire cory for doing what needed to be done at a time when things had to be done.
i'm sure it wasn't easy. and the many coup attempts not making it any easier pa.
i remember watching a video of ninoy's life and being proud that he and i are Filipinos.

this couple made us believe in the Filipino people.
they made the concept of nationhood real and meaningful.
for that i thank them. and for that i admire them because they lived their convictions.
and they died for them.
today we not only remember cory's life, but ninoy's as well. and the period when so many people cried and bled and fought and died for freedom.

i thank God for their lives.
thank you that i do not remember living in a time when martial law reigned.
i was born in 1983.