Jes Say It!

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 ...