Fortitude
Five years ago, I prayed for strength. But the Lord did not grant me this, instead His answer was even better. At the start of 2022, Odette has just ravished Cebu and the rest of the Visayas. Everyone is trying to get back on their own two feet, including my family. Our home had minimal damage unlike others but like most Cebuanos, we had no electricity for a month. I am quite thankful that despite our lack of preparation, my family is still able to get by. Late January, my brother and his wife got struck with COVID. Thankfully, it was the Omicron variant, they were both fully vaccinated, and my sister-in-law is a doctor and has been managing covid patients. Without a hitch they both fully recovered. Early February, what I feared the most happened, our youngest sibling who was still not qualified to receive the vaccine was infected. And that wasn’t the end of it. Around that same time, my grandparents also started showing symptoms. All these happened while my then boyfriend and I