Final Farewell from Stephen Yap

Final Farewell.

Patrick, I’m sorry I could not be there personally, due to unforeseen consequences. Please forgive me, as this was the least I could do.
Patrick, we may not have been the closest of batch mates, we would just pass each other by at the hallway, greet each other as most people would do.
But even now, there is a part of me that is torn and shredded, knowing that I would not be able to see your face again. A whole part of Xavier and the batch of 09-10 are gone. Even if I really didn’t know you in the past years, just mere batch mates passing each other by, I know that, you have touched the hearts of many people in your life as a Xavier student. You were a wonderful batch mate, a good son, and a religious man, and a wrestling maniac too. It is just sad to see you leave early at such a young age for a flight to heaven. We the Xavier batch of 09 – 10 will never forget you. The deeds you have done will not be forgotten; your smiles will be etched into our hearts and will give us hope. I know now, that you rest with our Creator in heaven, may you forever be with him, the saints and all the angels in heaven as a part of his heavenly host.

To my fellow batch mates, the passing of our dear friend and batch mate. Patrick Zaldarriaga is a truly saddening, dark and mourning one for us all. Some of us if not all, may have looked up to God, to perform such a miracle to cure him from his sickness and because of the arrival of none, we have turned our heads shamefully and with anger away from Him.

We then choose to discard of our faith, knowing that it brings us nothing but empty promises, but then without faith what would we get? You would be like a man who stopped dreaming about better things, hopeless, and even more susceptible to fear, discouragement, anger and hatred, just what evil wants us to do. We have to remember as a people, we are not perfect; there really are things that happen that we can never understand like the mystery of a creating and loving God who allows suffering and death, but we can never understand God’s plans but we have to trust in him, for everything he does is to for the greater good. The bottom line is to trust in the actions, of our Beloved Creator.

Dear Patrick thank you for everything.
– Stephen Yap