STIG Magazine Edition 1: The Gold Label

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It’s funny how you used the STARS within

two members of the family died early

the title of your email, because when I used

2015. I was reborn to a new perspective

to live there, I would take walks at night on

with the END in mind.

the road, just looking up at those stars. I’m a

Let me begin this story with part of a letter that

star gazer (if you didn’t know) and somehow,

I sent over to my father, after my grandfather’s

looking at those stars gave me comfort. Stars

death, followed by my uncle’s passing only a

have so much wonder, mystery, beauty in it,

few weeks after.

and are always in abundance.. just like life.“

“Whatever happened to our life and family

Some say that your destiny is written on

Papa, it’s for a good reason and I want you

the constellations. Some fortune tellers tell

to believe that. I would have never been this

of your future through the palm of your

strong and independent if I didn’t grow up

hands. Some think that everything had been

in such. We must trust that those who had

planned and we should just follow, while

already been taken had finished their mission

others think otherwise. Life gives you a lot

on earth. But as for you, I want you to stay

of options on what to believe in, and the

strong as you have always been. You still

truth is, everybody just wants to believe

have the sight and life to witness the changes

in something. An ease or a shortcut for

that will take place in this lifetime. You’re still

the unexplainable, of what is beyond our

here, because it is also within reason. Sooner

understanding and control.

or later, you will experience why it had been

I hope you will experience through these

like that for us. All the hardship, you will

sequels, a beautiful anecdote of being,

experience the exact opposite Papa. I chose

becoming, letting be and letting go.

to believe that while I was growing up. That life is just telling its story and it’s plotting a beautiful one, regardless of the situation.

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have rewritten how I viewed life after


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