SUKOB
Almost all the countries in the world has its own share of superstitious beliefs. So does the Philippines. If you'll count them, the list would go endless. The Philippines had been colonized by the Spaniards for more than 300 years. Arabs,Chinese, Japanese, Americans are only some to mention who had contributed and made the Filipino culture rich and truly unique. Colonization, intermarriages, friendship,and business influenced our beliefs, customs and traditions over time. Superstitious belief or old wive's tale is an irrational belief that an object, action, or circumstance not logically related to a course of events influences its outcome. SUKOB is one of them.It is a superstition that two siblings should not be wed in the same year or a wedding must not be held after a death of a member of the family.
I really don't believe in superstitions. Especially in sukob.I don't know if this is a mere coincidence or what. A cousin of my husband got married last may of this year. Then about September his elder sister got married too. Prior to that, a grandmother of them passed away last january days after our wedding.So, indeed IT IS two siblings getting married in the same year and more.The elders in my husband side was saying it's sukob sa taon and it should not happen.
End of October this year, the eldest brother of the siblings who got married died. Two weeks after, a great grandmother died also. And a day after the great grandmother was buried, one of the cousins died of stroke. And it happened only yesterday. You can't imagine how anguish the family is. One after the other they fall like leaves falling on autumn. Until when this will end?It is eerie to think of.
Coincidence or not. That we'll never know. All I know is things happen for a reason. And He up there alone knows everything. All of us die. He never gives trial that we can't bear.
Prayers is our best weapon. Evils lurk everywhere and always in disguised to divert us away from God. With all that are happening in our lives...good or bad...we must put our complete trust in Him. And He will never let us hit the ground.
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