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Thursday, January 01, 2004
Gueco: Adios 2003
By Malu T. Gueco
COMMENTARY
“Juanita, you will live up to 100.”
This favorite line of a doctor magically perked up my mom in a delightful mode every time we went to the Makati Medical Center for a check-up. I am totally mesmerized at how her healer uttered the right mantra to speed up her recovery.
Did Ma make it to the century mark? No, she left us when she was 83. However, she lived her bonus years in mirthful acceptance.
Truly, the number of years we walk on earth is equally important to the quality of life we thrive on. Henceforth, let us seek to unlock the key to open the door to health, harmony and happiness. Together we can throw away the wasteful, unnecessary and excess baggage we carried in our daily living, specifically, in the last year.
Viva voce. Our voice is a powerful means to hurt or vice-versa uplift the people we meet.
Take the case of my best ally Sophiam. Thinking her officemates at the radio station were unfair to her, she gave vent to anger and verbally assaulted them.
Two months later, she regretted her expression of discontent. She wished to ask for forgiveness from her associates and hoped to able to count 1, 2, 3 before she explodes in the future.
Nil desperandum. This Latin phrase means despair of nothing. Maybe it is the season to let go of futile worries.
In the example of Angeline, this is her story.
Last June, she fell ill because of a recurring pneumonia. For several weeks she stayed alone in her dark room and refused to see a doctor.
Providently, her best friend brought her to a wise, kind and compassionate physician in Cutcut, Angeles City.
Dr. John Morante became her lighthouse of diagnosis, recovery and healing. His gentle words of comfort swept away her ill feelings, pain and fears. Gently he helped her regain her strength and walk in the path of complete reinvigoration.
Epilogue. Bury yesterday’s garbage. Let the past rest. No more days of regret, remorse and anger in order to destroy the old calendar. Choose peace instead of anger; calmness in place of angst and paint a healthy outlook on the canvass of life.
Adios 2003!
(Malu T. Gueco writes for Sun.Star Pampanga)
(January 1, 2004 issue)
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