
“Sinigang “written by Marby Villaceran
Life is like cooking sinigang. You need to prepare the right ingredients to achieve the desire taste. I felt a little bit related to the story because I experienced to met the woman who tried to ruined our family. The pain is very unforgettable and never in my dreams that I imagine that the strength of our family will be tested by God. I can see how traumatic that event for Lisa and how it feel to justified to hate to her father for the hurt he caused her and her mother .Being a daddy’s girl I know how devastated Lisa as when she found out about the affair of her dad. I will never forget the scenario when a woman knelt down in front of me and my mom, saying sorry that she tried to seduced my dad. I was just about 14 years old that time but I am matured enough to understand things around because i know that I was raised by a strong and educated woman which is my mom. I remained kind hearted and I wished that woman have a good life, never did she heard anything bad from me and my mom.
It is really hard to forgive ,the only thing for us to do is to decide if we are going to spend our life harboring feelings of hate which would have a tremendous negative impact on our whole life and intimate relationships or we’re going to let go and live our life free of hate and pain.
Regarding forgiving for your own sake…when you give yourself adequate time to process forgiveness, and avoid forgiving too quickly, it will help you calm the sadness and anger you’ve been feeling. Forgiveness doesn’t mean that you have to approve of what your Dad did to hurt you. It doesn’t mean forgetting the pain and trauma his affair caused. It doesn’t mean that you dismiss the pain he caused your mother and your whole family .It doesn’t even mean that you have to renew a relationship with him. Yet, since our Dad is still our Dad we should try to give a second chance and the relationship that we must renew is our lives with God at the center.
It’s hard to let go of those feelings. Nonetheless, forgiving someone for cheating will actually benefit the faithful person more than the cheater. The anger we feel after infidelity is like a poison that lives in us. Forgiveness is the antidote and the only way to move on.