Just this November, we were rattled by an eleven-year-old girl from Davao, Mariannet Amper, who committed suicide due to poverty her family experiences. The news caught the country’s attention by storm, for it is somehow unlikely for an individual of her age to do such horrifying act.
Upon hearing the news about this little girl, sadness and elation were the first two emotions I’ve felt. This girl has a bright future and she can become a professional that serves the Filipinos had there were no financial difficulties, given her great desire to go schooling. Thus, losing a person like her goes to our country’s disadvantage, and that what makes me sad. On the other hand, I’m glad that though she died in an unpleasant manner, the incident clearly manifested the real socio-political and economic status of the country, although I firmly believe that many Filipinos know it (and yet apathy remains on some of us).
Corruption has everything to do with us. Corruption takes away. Corruption kills.
-Conrado de Quiros
For an optimist like me, suicide will always be the last resort. The problem doesn’t end when one commits suicide. In every problem, there will always be a way to disentangle ourselves from it. Suicide, for me, is an escapism, a cowardice to face reality, an irrational act.
But not until I found myself searching for a Gillette blade.
Posted by Yom 
