father, why have you forsaken me??
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NOTE: the following is not for me… it is for a person i know… he is not even close to me, and yet, i feel what he is going through right now…
he is your eldest, and you were very proud… you’ve watched him grow up, tended his knee scratches, consoled and taught him when he got into fights, you’ve taught him everything you know… you were around when he met his first girl… you were there when he got his heart broken for the very first time, and everytime thereafter… you put his medal on him when he graduated in elementary and high school, and later on, in college, you were very proud of him thinking that this is the beginning of a new life for him…
you egged him on during the times he was looking for his first job, and failing miserably… you even lent him money and your car [without the knowledge of your wife, of course] just to make it easy for him… and you were still proud of him…
and during all of these times, he was always there for you… he was all the way behind you when one of your daughters had a son out of wedlock, and later on got married outside of your religion… he was behind you when another of your daughters went astray… and he was behind you countless number of times throughout the years… and you were still very proud of him…
and yet, now that he needs your strong backing in his latest endeavor, you left him out in the cold… when the question of religion [or the lack of it] comes up, and the problem is that it goes against your own beliefs, you are not willing to give way, not even an inch… your son will soon get married to a woman whose beliefs are different from your own… and since he loves this woman, he is willing to get married in this woman’s church… but now, you are proud of him no longer… you are willing to forsake your son and let the question of religion come between you…
mamamatay ka na lang, yan pa rin ang iniisip mo… tsk tsk tsk…
“Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?”
Ciao, sweetie… 
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