Tita Cory, It is Well, It is Well!

When was the last time somebody died and changed your life?

Oftentimes, we rarely pay much attention to the impact of such traumatic events. We weep, we cry. As if we were attached to the person who died, that there will be no life after death, no hope for us to cling on.

Tita Cory’s death is a really traumatic experience especially to her children, to her grandsons and granddaughters, but most importantly to the lives she has changed, from the moment she stands out from the crowd and waved the flag of democracy against the strangling and lashing forces of the Marcos regime.

But as her death pass by, I asked myself many times. What does Tita Cory’s life and death did for me?

Is it the “Laban sign” that I started to imitate from the people I watched on the television or the fight that I must continue for the change that I must struggle on?

Is it the yellow ribbon that was tied up to the trees and was treated as a new fashion trend or the yellow color as the symbol of happiness, brightness, cheerfulness, and hope towards betterment?

Is it the face of Tita Cory that I must put on my T-shirts or the face of hers as an example of humility, serenity, true forgiveness, honesty and good leadership?

Is it the fame or popularity that I must pursue from being a president of the country or the fame or popularity that I must gain from being the best that I could be and yet being proud of my nationality? Being a youth in today’s generation, Tita Cory’s life is a life to mention. From the time when we, Filipinos, amazed the world of our collective courage, faith and abiding sense of goodwill to all…when we taught the world about people power, to her humbleness and God-fearing examples, to her good leadership as an advocate of democracy in the country, even to the time of her death when millions and millions mourn as she says “goodbye” to the nation, Tita Cory’s death has really changed the way things are, that to live is to die but being alive is eternal. The scenario of death paints a different hue to the tragic yet wonderful event.

Remembering Tita Cory as the widow in yellow, the wife of another Philippine hero, her death brings life to everyone. She has left a seed that outgrows the tree of a new life, of democracy, of true hope and serenity. From then we can say, despite her death she’ll always be remembered.

Tita Cory, it is well! It is well!