When the World Around You is Grieving

My small world is grieving. In less than a week, I have heard of 5 deaths and loses from the people closest to me. Yesterday was my uncle's interment. It was a sad scene to look at a grieving family. My cousins - one who lives abroad and the other lives in the Southern part of the country flew to Manila to spend the last few days with my uncle. This made me more firm about my decision to stay here in Manila and be with my parents rather than work abroad - no matter how promising the future may be in another country. What matters to me more than anything else is the present - and that is, spending as much time with my family, as possible. What is more painful is that we only get to see the whole family - cousins and relatives, only at this depressing time.

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