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Go well, dear Evelyn, forever sleep

(For Evelyn "Nang Bebe" Dumloan Gementiza-Hortelano)
13:45 Hs / 04.05.2009 / Dubai UAE

People are only scared of what they don’t know, and there was much I didn’t know. I understand death more clearly now, I don’t have to fear it.

Today my best friend, a good cousin, a loving sister, a “prodigal” daughter sigh her last breath and I just can’t believe she’s gone.

I cried. Yes I cried because she had been the best cousin I ever got. Strong character and a free spirit and it broke my heart that she will be gone from us forever. I never grieve this heavily before. I cried even more because I can’t be there when my family inters her body finally to her resting place.

For Nang Bebe, I offer you my prayers and thanks for a lot of things that you have done to me and to all of us around you who love you so much. Nang Bebe…

THANK YOU for being an older sister to me, because you've been my ally throughout life, both before and after you left.

THANK YOU for being my guiding cousin, and for putting up with me when I was obnoxious, as I surely must have been, as a little brother who adored you.

THANK YOU for being my big sister, not just in age, but in weight, for you taught me to celebrate being big.

THANK YOU for being my first confidante, my first teacher in the visual arts, dance and music, and my first teacher in the art of living with passion.

THANK YOU for sharing your love of music and dance, and for being a true Bohemian long before I knew what that word meant.

THANK YOU for encouraging my wildness, and for modeling full-bodied artistry.

THANK YOU for teaching me to be myself by being yourself.

THANK YOU for your extraordinary sensitivity, and for writing to me about being woken from sleep by the sound of falling rain.

THANK YOU for your tenderness, your toughness, your brilliance, your gentleness, your wisdom, your outrageousness, your courage, your intensity, your contradictions, your huge sense of humor, your great comic timing which makes Tatay and Nanay laugh so hard, your unquenchable sense of wonder, and your great hugs.

THANK YOU for teaching me, by leaving, that survival of the soul is more important than anything, including family.

THANK YOU for all the times I cried inside my heart out, missing you, because every time I wept, my compassion deepened in direct proportion to the pain.

THANK YOU for taking care of yourself, for being strong and for the will to postpone it despite the pain and the illness that you had borne even though it meant leaving us, because being strong in times of infirmity and diseased is the best gift you could ever give me.

Go well, dear Evelyn. I love you forever.

Desiderata in Filipino

Desiderata

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence.

As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story. Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love, for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly to the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune. But do not distress yourself with imaginings. Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.


MINIMITHI

Lumakad ng mahinahon
sa gitna ng ingay at pagkukumahog
at alalahanin ang kapayapaang maaaring makuha sa katahimikan.

Walang isinusuko hangga't maaari,
Pakitunguhan ng mabuti ang lahat ng tao.

Sabihin ang iyong katotohanan ng tahimik at malinaw,
at makinig sa iba ,
kahit sa nakayayamot at mangmang
sila man ay may kasaysayan.

Iwasan ang mga taong mabunganga at palaaway,
sila'y ikinaiinis ng kalooban.

Kung ihahambing mo ang sarili sa iba ,
baka yumabang ka o maghinanakit
sapagkat laging may lilitaw na mas mahusay o mas mahina sayo.
Ikalugod ang iyong mga tagumpay at saka mga balak.

Manatiling interesado sa iyong hanapbuhay,
gaano man kaaba ; ito'y tunay na ari-arian sa pabago-bagong panahon.

Maging maingat sa iyong negosyo;
sapagkat ang daigdig ay puno ng panlilinlang.
Subalit huwag maging bulag sa kabutihang nakikita.

Maraming nagsisikap na makamit ang adhikain;
at sa lahat ng dako, ang buhay ay puno ng kabayanihan.

Maging tapat sa sarili.
Higit sa lahat , huwag magkunwari.
Huwag ding libakin ang pag-ibig;
Sapagkat sa harap ng lahat ng kahungkagan at kawalang pag-asa,
ito'y lagi't-laging sumisibol,
tulad ng damo.

Tanggapin ng mabuti ang mga payo ng katandaan,
Buong giliw na isuko ang mga bagay-bagay ng kabataan.

Pag-ibayuhin ang lakas ng loob,
ito'y pananggalang laban sa biglaang kasawian.

Subalit huwag ikaligalig ang mga haka-haka.
Maraming pangamba ang likha ng pagod at pangungulila.
Bagamat kailangan ang sapat na disiplina,
Maging magiliw sa sarili.
Ikaw ay supling ng sanlibutan.
Katulad ng bituin,
may liwanag kang taglay.
At anupaman ang iyong gawin
itong sanlibutan ay narito sa paligid mo.

Kung gayon , pakisamahan ang Panginoon,
Anuman ang pananaw mo sa kanya.
At anuman ang iyong pinagkakaabalahan at minimithi,
sa maingay na kalituhan ng buhay,
pakisamahan ang iyong kaluluwa.
Sa kabila ng lahat ng pagkukunwari,
kabagutan, at gumuhong pangarap,
maganda pa rin ang daigdig.

Magingat. Sikaping lumigaya