Tragedy and Life

It was not a great week for us as my wife’s grandfather passed away in the Philippines. We bought tickets a while back to fly to the Philippines this September to celebrate his birthday. It would also be the first time that my wife would be back in the Philippines after we got married, and she got her Green Card. While we will still go to the Philippines this September, it will unfortunately not be for the original reason. Emotions ran high in the last few days, and it is a reminder that tragedy can and will strike at the most unexpected moments.

There is a lot to take in and reflect upon when something like this happens. The significance of life, the inescapability of death, the importance of family, the passage of time, and so many other concepts are brought to bear. It is like a wave that we get swept into with so little actually in our control. However, we continue onward or uselessly despair in the face of the inevitable, and that really is our only options. Despite it all, there looks to have a plan in all this. Without her grandfather, my wife would not have gotten a tourist visa in her teens to go to the U.S., and it would be years later where she would have to renew that tourist visa in order to travel here to the U.S. with me after we got married. It is crazy sometimes thinking how things turn out a certain way.