Learning from Cory Aquino

Posted by spliceanddice on August 2, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

It wasn’t ambition which powered her to command the people and lead them like a shepherd would do to his flock. It was the command of the people that empowered her, thrusting them towards the ambit of their ambition, or dream, and to continue to draw upon that monumental legacy an infinite source of hope. She was a wife first and a leader second. But at the height of massive oppression, she was more than willing to exchange the first for the second without having to abandon one over the other. Some say she was at the right place at the time. Still, others say she was unprepared when the moment was ripe enough to seize. Others simply say she was the right one. Whichever way they put it, only the insane could see her not as a flicker of light in absolute darkness but as a nimbus that is out to wreak havoc on barren soil. She is gone. Like memories, there is the danger that she will be reduced to nothingness, or a footnote in history, when those who remember her today might forget her in the coming years, swayed perhaps by an already depressing state of affairs in this country. But like memories, her image will remain as vibrant as the day when she took the path where few genuine men dare to brave, so long as forgetfulness is not bound to swallow those who mourn over the loss of yet another rare gem.

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