Cancer. Big word, immense impact, massive
consequence and a huge problem it is. Accounting from 7.6 million deaths and
more, cancer is identified as the leading cause of death worldwide. Hence,
groups of concerned individuals took an initiative to act and stop the fast
increasing figures. Munting Saranggola is one of such.
As
presented in the play, no one knows you’ll have it and nobody even wants it.
Cancer as an illness is a big fat traitor; it dwells in you and at the same
time kills you. Patients were given such life however because they are strong enough to live it,
though they never chose, nothing can be done for them to oppose. It is their
fate. Their destiny to draw from the heart of suffering itself as the means of
inspiration and survival, as Winston Churchill said.
It is not the pain and suffering that deals much, it is
the rise of hope and faith that matters most. One had said, the darker the sky,
the brighter you’ll see the stars up high. Indeed, the problems we encounter in
life doesn’t exist to destroy us, these are blocks that build us. The same as
the play, as painful as it is for a young boy to suffer from cancer, the
stronger his faith becomes in order to survive. The fact that there’s no
hundred percent guarantee of winning over the said illness, he never gave up
and let cancer swallow him. Instead, he used this as a sword to strengthen
every aspects of his life. This is one of the people’s mistakes, letting
problems pull you down. The positive outlook of a survivor like the boy must be
embodied by everybody else in order to set straight the crooked belief of many.
Furthermore, the heart-striking death of Ate Clarisse in the play made way for
the boy and even the audience to take in the fact that people has to come to an
end. It is not the years of life that counts but the life of your years that
matters. Living the most of our life through
Just like a kite, let the
wind bring you above and you’ll be able to witness the beauty laid beneath. The
fear of height pays you a price then. Feed your faith however and your fears
will starve to death. We just need to bow down to grasp what God wanted us
to learn. Only if our prayer is maximized, cancer will definitely be minimized.
Killing cancer is breath-taking but surviving from it is inspiring.
