It was a Friday sale at the Ortigas Center with both SM Megamall and Robinson’s Galleria simultaneously scheduling their 3-day sale starting last Friday, Oct. 19. While we were still in Galleria during our lunchbreak (I don’t remember having any food in front of me except the numerous shirts, shoes, bags . . .) , a bomb blasted in Glorietta 2 killing 9 people and wounding more than 70. We found out when we got back to the office. The first thing on my mind was that it could’ve been us.

An issue that raises the fragility of life often holds every human spellbound. We can’t seem to stop talking about it. We want to know exactly what happened — where the bomb was planted, who claims responsibility, who are the possible suspects. We want to know the details of the death — how many limbs were left or blown away, what was it that the dead left behind — grieving parents, wife, husband, or mistress. We get scared for a while. We stop going to similar places, we do not allow the kids to go out.

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