Six of my first cousins lost their father this morning (November 23), a man who happens to be the brother of my mother and at the same time the husband of my father’s sister. Thus, I lost an uncle. He is just in the late thirty when he unwillingly orphaned his six young, innocent children, who still not capable for the pursuit of survival. How would you comfort those kids, who in the first place, do not completely understand that they’ve lost their father? The eldest is just first year high school while the youngest is just turning two.
How will you sympathize the most bereaved of all, the housewife, who is now oblige to carry much heavier responsibility to race the family alone with no solid means of living. How will you commiserate my grandmother who mourned the third time? First was losing her husband and raced their children alone, then the eldest son, who happened to be her assistant in the family upon losing the primary breadwinner and lastly his third.
I do not know what action I should make. I am miles away from home, miles away when I heard the bad news and miles away for my grief. Distance has made me handicapped, has weakened me. I can’t help it.
Would this coming Christmas be merry? Nope, I mean, this would be the saddest Christmas ever.
Would this coming Christmas be merry? Nope, I mean, this would be the saddest Christmas ever.
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