There are stories that are just plain sad, but there are sad stories that inspire others to be stronger in facing life struggles. While life is not a contest many Filipinos join TV show contests in hope of winning a prize that could help them move from their current troubled circumstances.
At 50's, she came from Romblon, a teacher giving piano lessons to children just so she can join Pilipinas Got Talent because she wanted to continue her check up with her doctor. She mustered courage to face a big audience in that auditorium, the Philippines and even the world, with her story that made people cry not because it was sad, but because she was courageous to stand through it.
Four years ago, her parents passed away. Two good people whom in their probably old age and weak state gave her strength to keep on with life. Her siblings have all gone their ways and have stopped keeping in touch with her. She was not given a chance to bear any child. Her husband left her some ten years ago after spending with her 25 years of marriage.
She is left alone by the people whom she would expect to be there with her. Alone with an old piano, but she kept through with few pupils who would pay her 100 pesos for an hour's lesson while sometimes none at all. She was left alone with her music, her passion, left alone with breast cancer that metastasized to affect her lumbar spinal nerve 3.
While her spinal cord is threatened with cancer metastasis, her bosom that had been badly beaten by tumor is strong to get through with her life. She knew her chance was lean. When asked why she joined the talent show, she muttered all she wanted is a new piano, so she can teach her students better and that she can go through with her medication.
What is heart-breaking in her story is not that of her physical condition, but the treatment she got to inflict in her torn heart more pain. The very people, in her family, and the very man who vowed to love her till death part them, left her in that condition. But she was strong, her faith and hope in God did not falter her.
Kris Aquino, who sits as a judge in the talent show, told her she would send her a grand piano. Such is a generosity that lifted the piano teacher's heart. The three judges knew she had poor chances in getting in the finals or winning the coveted prize. To me she was a winner in that moment of coming up there in the stage with her hope and passion for music.
Her life is a sad song, she is a woman needing the sweetest music to be played to her ears, when the pain of cancer strikes her. I would like to hear her story being striked in those piano keys. That would probably move the audience and tell the world how it misses to show compassion on those who need it most.
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