#3 Blog Task

"Hard Thing To Do"

          Letty Jimenez - Magsanoc's "That Sweet Unforgatable Day" is a narrative story which tells about a personal and subjective experience that is, indeed, difficult to verify physically but well-narrated in a manner that is sincere and moving. 

         

            On the story, the narrator tries to show her busy preparations for their family's long-time houseboy and family cook wedding as if she was trying to ignore and forget the pain of knowing the absence of her mother. That wedding made herself and her whole family to be distracted of what they really feel. With some circumstances, her father bought huge potted plants with white flowers looked like magnolias not knowing that the said flower will be the way to reminisce her mother.

           

             Upon smelling the scent which was the same as her mother's scent, she tried to ignore it first but the scent was so powerful and dominant at the room. Curiosity arose her and decide then to call his father upstairs for him to feel what was happening in the place. This made her to feel awkward. That felling began to drive her brothers and sisters as they slowly stepped downstairs. Now, they all feel the presence of the dead person and it was the first time for them to become happy after that traumatic death.

         

             Personally, I don't believe of afterlife stories which are basically mythical to understand. Life after death doesn't exist. A soul that has been died will never be back in the surface where he sometimes lived in.But its the emotion of grief or humanistic imagination that lead us to feel that it is real. Its also shows how powerful our mind is. We are capable to create realistic imaginations which in contrast, are lies. However, it has a positive side towards one's emotion in order to lessen the heaviness of the truth. In this sense, we believe on lies and fallacy.
          

             Nevertheless, I will admit that this thing helps someone to ignore the pain of one's death. It is really true that trying to forget someone who passed away was a "hard thing to do".

Froi Edrian V. Bebit

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