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When my parents died a year apart in 1994 and 1995, I have made a promise to myself that I shall transfer all my accountabilities and responsibilities to my second Mom, my Ale. My Mom’s best friend and cousin who invited my Mom to set up house inside her property and thus I was raised there, my family under her wing and care. True to my word, she officially became my Mother in the eyes of everyone and I made sure that she gets the care and the financial support that she needed, not that she needs any at the time.
- Never live outside your means
- Enjoy only those things you think you truly and rightfully deserve
- Never start a fight
- If provoked, oblige them
- Man belongs to the earth and not the other way around
- Do not desire what you really do not want
- Always be prepared
I have loathed the day when Ale passed away, simply because
this is the entire situation that I have always wanted to avoid. When fangs
will be wielded in the open, when greed will take over what is deemed decent
and proper, when the time for the Tupperware and Orocan parties expire… when I would
be surrounded by people with wants, needs and whatever, when the death of a
loved one will be taken as an opportunity to gain.
And that is why I have always professed that I am better
than most Christians or Catholics I know and maybe a bit more stupid than most
of them as well, because despite my age and experiences, I still believe in the
supposed goodness of man. I know that that I sound so naïve, but that is who I am.
I shall as I always have, allow others to do the work for me.
So about ten years ago, my Ale handed me a love letter and a
ring after celebrating her birthday and told me that I am her heir and I immediately
said, No. my primary concern at the time was because I do not want her
alienated by my cousins and grandchildren for favoring me, one who is in their
eyes, not blood. The same people that despite all the help and support I have
given them thru the years, they have managed to bad mouth me with Ale every
chance they could. An example was when I had the garage built and Ale’s house
improvements, it was taken as a threat as well.
And now, we are here in this situation. The real threat
finally arrives with the appearance of Ale’s full blooded niece and nephews who
has laid claim to the property. The people of whom I barely knew except for Ale’s
stories and how much she despised that family, whose parents squandered and
lost their inheritance of a property three times the size of Ale’s lot. It then
followed that Ale’s brother begged and egged her into loaning half of Ale’s
property because she was anyway single and with no children while he has a
bunch and so Ale relented. That property, intended for his brother’s children,
a redemption site for his family was also forfeited on a loan… and was lost as
well.
So this is the family that I was to deal with eventually. A couple
of months or so after Ale’s passing, they came and we had a discussion. I told
them that I was not interested in the land but I sated that my only desire was
to pass on in the place where I grew up, in the place which I called home
considering that I was the primary person who took care of Ale all of these
years… and they said YES. Case closed or so I thought.
Yesterday, I received text messages which were meant to be
disturbing but I am too old to care. Because as I stated earlier, ALWAYS BE
PREPARED.
And thus, my new adventure begins… and as I have safely
concluded, like most of my social experiments, man failed.
That utter sense of helplessness
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
I got locked out of this blog
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